Andrea Rutan, who was the recipient of this year's Outstanding Graduate Student in Sociology award, also received a best graduate paper award from the International Journal of Zizek Studies.

John Robinson, MA Sociology 2010, was recently awarded a prestigious Ford Fellowship. He is a second year doctoral student at Northwestern University in Sociology.

Prof. John Dale was interviewed by Kyaw Zan Tha of Voice of America (Burmese) on April 18th.

SOAN honored its award-winning students at the Outstanding Student Awards Ceremony April 18, 2012.

Congratulations to anthropology graduate students Anne Marie Munson, Melissa Mitchell and Salman Moghadeddi!

SOAN is greatly represented at this year's Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Students are encouraged to participate in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' 2012 Undergraduate Research Symposium, which takes place Tuesday, May 1, 2012 from 12-4 p.m. in the Johnson Center's Dewberry Hall.

Professor Kurtz was at the United Nations last week working on new approach to make governments accountable not for GDP or economic growth but for the happiness and well-being of its citizens.

Radical History Review has published Professor Bockman's "The Long Road to 1989: Neoclassical Economics, Alternative Socialisms, and the Advent of Neoliberalism" as its lead article.