Recent Scholarly Activity
Recent publications (books, articles, blog posts, etc.)
-Today's Boston Globe article, "The Changing Face of Immigration," http://b.globe.com/1hVZla1 , includes data provided by the Institute for Immigration Research.
Prof. Jaeeun Kim (Sociology) -Kim, Jaeeun. 2014. "The Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood in Korea." Comparative Studies in Society and History 56(1):34-66.
Prof. Shannon Davis (Sociology) -Davis, Shannon N. and Shannon K. Jacobsen. “Anticipating Challenges to Infusing Undergraduate Research into a Research-Intensive Institution: Insights from Faculty Mentors.” Innovative Higher Education 39(1): 17-31.
-Ngo, Phi H. and Shannon N. Davis. “Racial/Ethnic Variations in the Influence of Parental Attachment on Adolescent Substance Abuse.” Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse 13(1): 23-38.
- Jones, Rebecca M. and Shannon N. Davis. 2014. “Assessing Faculty Perspectives on Undergraduate Research: Implications from Studies of Two Faculties.” CUR Quarterly 34(3):37-42.
Prof. Haagen Klaus (Anthropology) -Klaus HD. 2013. Hybrid cultures…and hybrid peoples: bioarchaeology of genetic change, religious architecture, and burial ritual in the Colonial Andes. In: Card, J (ed.). Hybrid material culture: the archaeology of syncretism and ethnogenesis. Carbondale, IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University. p 207-238.
-Klaus HD. 2014a. La persistencia de la identidad: una primera aproximación a la identidad Muchik en el valle de Lambayeque prehispánico tardío. In: Shimada I, ed. Cultura Sicán: esplendor preincaico de la costa norte. Editorial del Congreso del Peru. p 235-257.
-Klaus HD. 2014b. A history of violence in the Lambayeque Valley: conflict and death from the late pre-Hispanic apogee to the era of European colonization of Peru (A.D. 900-1750). In: Knüsel CJ, Smuth JM, eds. The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of human conflict. New York: Routledge. p 389-414.
-Klaus HD. 2014c. Subadult scurvy in Andean South America: evidence of vitamin C deficiency in the late pre- Hispanic and Colonial Lambayeque Valley, Peru. Int J Paleopathol. Available on Early View: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2013.09.002
-Klaus HD. 2014d. Requiem Aeternum? Archaeothanatology of mortuary ritual in Colonial Mórrope, north coast of Peru. In: Shimada I, Fitzsimmons J, eds. Living with the dead in the Andes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Forthcoming.
-Klaus HD, Byrnes EE. 2013. Cranial lesions and maxillofacial asymmetry in an archaeological skeleton from Peru: a paleopathological case of possible trauma-induced epidermal inclusion cysts. J Cranio-Maxil Dis 2: 46- 53.
-Klaus HD, Eriksen CM. 2013. Paleopathology of an ovarian teratoma: description and diagnosis of an exotic abdominal bone and tooth mass in a historic Peruvian burial. Int J Paleopathol 3: 294-301.
-Klaus HD, Ortner DJ. 2014. Treponemal infection in Peru’s Early Colonial period: a case of complex lesion patterning and unusual funerary treatment. Int J Paleopathol 4: 25-36.
Jason Smith/Randy Abreu -Jason Smith. 2013. "Between Colorblind and Colorconscious: Contemporary Hollywood Films and Struggles Over Racial Representation." Journal of Black Studies, 44(8).
-Randy Abreu and Jason Smith. 2014. "Public or Industry Interest? Debating the UHF Discount." International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 10(1).
Prof. Satsuki Takahashi (Anthropology) - Takahashi, Satsuki. To See Once More the Stars: Living in a Post-Fukushima World. Co-edited with Daisuke Naito, Ryan Sayre, and Heather Swanson. The New Pacific Press. (Bilingual in English and Japanese)
Please take time to read the following letter from the American Sociological Association journal Contexts. To view the letter click on the picture link document below.
Contexts Magazine Editorship Initiative
Recent presentations (conferences, other universities, outside academia)
-The Bioarchaeology of Eten: Using Multiple Lines of Archaeological Context to Understand Postcontact Health Variation in the Lambayeque Valley, Peru. 1st Annual Conference of the Western Bioarchaeology Group, University of California, Berkeley. Oct 12-15, 2013.
-New Discoveries of Human Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru: The Bioarchaeology of Ritual Violence. Invited guest speaker, Mississippi State University, Oct 17, 2013.
-2014. As a panelist for Roundtable: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. The National Museum of Natural History Museum. March 29th.
-2014. “Romantically Tragic Comedy: A Story of Community, Fish, and Survival.” Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. Albuquerque. March 20th.
Alexey Boklin
- Alexey Boklin, Mind-Over-Matter Magic: The Case of “Reality Transurfing,” at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University (Denmark).
Prof. Haagen Klaus (Anthropology)
- Haagen Klaus, The Bioarchaeology of Eten: Using Multiple Lines of Archaeological Context to Understand Postcontact Health Variation in the Lambayeque Valley, Peru. 1st Annual Conference of the Western Bioarchaeology Group, University of California, Berkeley. Oct 12-15, 2013.
- Haagen Klaus, New Discoveries of Human Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru: The Bioarchaeology of Ritual Violence. Invited guest speaker, Mississippi State University, Oct 17, 2013.
Alicia Lee
-Alicia Lee. "Examining the Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in the U.S Resettlement Experiences of Iraqi Refugees.” IIR Postdoctoral Fellow, March 27, 2014.
Carol Petty
- Carol Petty. "Constructing Commonality across Cultural Differences: Maintaining the Non-threatening Narrative of Culture," Chicago Ethnography Conference, March 2014.
Jason Smith/ Randy Abreu
-Jason Smith and Randy Abreu. 2014. "The UHF Discount Rule and Thinking about Diversity." Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD.
Prof. Satsuki Takahashi (Anthropology)
- Takahashi, Satsuki 2014, As a panelist for Roundtable: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. The National Museum of Natural History Museum. March 29th.
- Takahashi, Satsuki 2014, “Romantically Tragic Comedy: A Story of Community, Fish, and Survival.” Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. Albuquerque. March 20th.
Internships, consulting work, etc.
-Summer Seminar on Nationalism, Religion and Violence 2014 organized by the Charles University in Prague from June 23 to July 4, 2014 and International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki with support of LSEE and PRIO. It is led by international researchers from universities with excellent reputation such as Oxford, NYU or LSE targeting students and graduates of Political Science, History, Anthropology, International Relations, International Law and other related disciplines. The course can be taken by both undergraduates and (post) graduate students. For further information visit the website by clicking this link http://nrvsschool.fsv.cuni.cz/
-Consultant for the Department of Homeland Security on antiquities trafficking cases
Mentions in the media, award nominations.
2014 awards for Convocation Program (see below)…
Sociology
v Outstanding Sociology Graduate Student Award : Sara Moore
v AKD Outstanding Graduating Senior Award: Dana Rutkowski
v Outstanding Sociology Undergraduate Student Award: Brittany Owen
v Aliza Kolker Award for Sociology: Samantha Fletcher
Anthropology
v Outstanding Anthropology M.A. Thesis: Chelsey Dyer
v Outstanding Anthropology Graduate Student: Erik Josephson
v Outstanding Anthropology Undergraduate Student Award: Miranda Carver
Carol Petty received the Critical Language Scholarship to study Turkish in Ankara, Turkey this summer (2014).
-Samantha Fletcher and Brittany Owen were accepted into the ASA Honors Program to attend and present at the 2014 American Sociological Association meeting.
Prof. Johanna Bockman (Sociology) -Starting in fall 2014, Johanna Bockman will be the president-elect of the District of Columbia Sociological Society (DCSS). She encourages all SOAN sociologists to join the DCSS and sign up for the annual banquet, which will take place on Wednesday, May 21st at Lavagna Ristorante Italiano on Capitol Hill in DC. The annual banquet is always a lot of fun. For more info: http://dcsociologicalsociety.wordpress.com/
Prof. Mark Jacobs (Sociology)
Mark Jacobs was elected to a two-year term as Chair of the Research Network on Culture of the European Sociological Association, starting last August. That research network is the largest in the ESA; Jacobs is the first American to chair a research network in that association. He was invited to participate in an eight-person workshop on “Finance, Financial Crises, and Political Responses” last November at the University of Leipzig. He is currently co-organizing a conference on “Power, Culture, and Economics” to be held at the University of Tampere next August. This semester, he was elected a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, while serving as Faculty Director of Mason’s Oxford Honors Program for the Center on Global Education. He co-edited and contributed to Culture, Communication, and Creativity, an anthology scheduled for release this spring from Peter Lang.
Prof. Haagen Klaus (Anthropology)
- Haagen Klaus worked on ancient tuberculosis featured in stories by Popular Science magazine, Newsmax magazine
- Haagen Klaus was interviewed by Austrian Public Radio on how paleopathological research informs the modern battle against disease
- Haagen Klaus was Interviewed as a commentator by the Associated Press on the discovery of the tombs in the Huarmey valley, Peru .
Professional Development and Career Building
Calls for papers or abstracts for journals or conferences
-For those interested in writing a paper that addresses how media represents minority populations in the 21st century and the significant effects these representations have on racial ideologies/ characterizations please click on the following link for further details..
Deadlines for Grants, Fellowships, etc.
- Deadline for College of Humanities and Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium: April 9 @ 8am: http://chssundergrad.gmu.edu/
-Haagen Klaus - Summer 2014 field season of the Lambayeque Valley Biohistory Project funded by grants from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration and George Mason University's Office of Research.
Other Announcements
Events happening within the department, college, and related centers ( e.g. CSSR, IIR, WGST)
-Student Awards Ceremony, Alpha Kappa Delta and Lambda Alpha Initiations: April 16, 7-9pm, Mason Hall 3D
Urgent!! Your help is a blessing
-Prof. Les Kurtz
You may have heard that Zahra Khan, our PhD student from Pakistan, returned home to a burned-down apartment building a week ago! Many people and Mason units are mobilizing to help get her – and the other affected Mason citizens – back on track.. I've been touched by how people have mobilized quickly to help her – a spare laptop, temporary housing, etc. We can lessen the disruption with our generosity.
We will have an envelope in the SOAN department office for donations – cash, etc. (checks should be made out directly to Zahra Khan) if you are able to donate anything from spare change to large checks.
Safiya Khalid, the IIR Executive Director, is coordinating the SOAN/CSSR/IIR effort – please see her email below for more details.
-Safiya Khalid
Our very own Zahra Khan's floor of her apartment building completely burned down. She is safe, but lost everything. She is staying at a friend's house until she is able to find another place to stay. Indeed, it is a difficult time for her.
Zahra Khan is a first year Sociology Master student at George Mason. She arrived to the U.S. for the first time & joined IIR just last summer!
Jean and I talked with Zahra, and from our conversation with her, we feel that the best way to help her is through continual emotional support: she does not feel an immediate need for money as much as time to replace what she lost and especially to find a place to live. To show our support more materially though, we've decide to take up a collection and get Zahra both a TJ Max & Walgreens gift cards. These stores are nearby and can help her to replace basic essentials.
I will be the point of contact for all efforts to help Zahra from SOAN/CSSR/IIR perspective.
I will be taking cash donations starting immediately.The sooner we are able to help the better.
My office hours are M-F 9am-5pm (4987 University Drive). Also, I'm more than happy to come where you are on campus and take the donation from you/your department. If you need to reach me, here is my cell: 571-490-1839 or office number: 703-993-5606.
If you are at the IIR/CSSR office after hours (evening), there is a yellow folder on top of my desk---inside of it is an envelope with Zahra's name on it, please place your donation there.
If you have any questions, call or email me skhalid6@gmu.edu! Again, I'm taking cash donations starting immediately.
April 10, 2014
