Check Out the Department Newsletter for October 2014

Katie Kerstetter

- Kerstetter, Katie, John J. Green, and Molly Phillips. 2014. “Collective Action to Improve Rural Community Wellbeing: Opportunities and Constraints in the Mississippi Delta.” Rural Society 23(3): 256-268.

- Kerstetter, Katie and John J. Green. “Fundamental Causes of Health Disparities: Associations Between Adverse Socioeconomic Resources and Multiple Measures of Health.” In Research in the Sociology of Health Care, edited by Jennie Kronenfeld. Vol. 32. United Kingdom: Emerald Press.

 

Anne Schiller

 - Schiller, Anne and Minkyung Park. 2014. “The International Campus as Prototype for International Collaboration." Global Partners in Education 4(1):33-40.

 - Schiller, Anne and Matthew Zingraff. 2014. “Challenges, Opportunities, For Korean Student Mobility.” University World News June 15: 0324.

 

Rutledge Dennis

 - Rutledge M. Dennis. 2014. "Childhood, Identity, Social Ambivalence, and the Mystique of Race" in Race and the Life Course: Readings from the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age. Diditi Mitra and Joyce Weil(eds.)Palgrave Macmillan. 

Katie Kerstetter

- Kerstetter, Katie. “Care Work and Teacher Retention in an Urban Public Charter School.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

 - Kerstetter, Katie, John J. Green, and Sarah Gayden Harris. “Cumulative Disadvantage, Stressors, and a Baby’s First Food: Modeling Birth Outcomes and Breastfeeding in the Southern United States.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA.

 

Amy Best

- Amy Best and Jeff Johnson. "Mobile Food Markets as Food Justice: Consumer Degradation and Dignity Work in Food Provisioning and Consumption in Low-income Communities” American Sociological Association Consumers and Consumption Mini-conference “Farm to Table”, Berkeley, CA, 2014

 

Mark Jacobs

- In August, Mark Jacobs presented papers on different aspects of scandal at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association and at a conference on "Power, Culture & Economy" at the University of Tampere (Finland). As chair of the Research Network on Culture of the European Sociological Association, he was co-organizer of the latter conference.

- In early September, Mark Jacobs was invited to present a paper on scandal at the Annual Symposium of the Oxford Centrre for Corporate Reputation at the Said Business School.

 

 Mentions in the media, award nominations

Linda Seligman

 - School of Advanced Research volume, Street Economies in the Urban Global South, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen, Walter Little, and B. Lynne Milgram, in which my chapter, “The Politics of Urban Space among Street Vendors of Cusco, Peru” appeared, was chosen as the recipient of the 2014 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize, awarded this year for the best edited collection in the field of the anthropology of work published within the last three years. The criteria for the prize are: the significance of the research, its relevance for the anthropology of work, the clarity and effectiveness of the presentation, and its appeal to a wide audience in anthropology and beyond. Preference is given to books based on fieldwork and which have not received another award or prize. One year out of three the prize goes to an edited volume.

Randy Salm

- Randy Salm has advanced to candidacy.

 

Shannon Davis

Please consider submitting your work to the following conference. Shannon is Program Co-chair and would love to showcase the department's work.

78th Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society

New Orleans, LA

March 25 – 28, 2015

“Stalled Revolutions? Gender Inequality in the 21st Century”

While women have made many strides toward equal participation in American institutions, and men have become more active in family life, there is no denying that the United States is not a gender egalitarian society. Not only do women and men continue to face different expectations for their behavior in both the public and private spheres, the intersections of race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nativity with gender yield even more challenges to realizing equality. The 2015 SSS meeting will explore the concept of stalled gender revolutions in and across important societal institutions and contexts *and* discuss the policies needed to bring about a more gender egalitarian society in the 21st century.

For more information, including the submission portal for papers, see  http://www.southernsociologicalsociety.org/annual.html. The deadline for submissions is October 24, 2014.

 

Dear Colleagues,

Below is information about Undergraduate submissions -- posters, of course, but also the special and time-sensitive process for paper submissions. This information can also be found on the Annual Meeting page of our website. Please circulate to your colleagues and students who may be interested. We look forward to seeing you in New York. The meeting will be February 26-March 1 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel.

Undergraduate Submissions

Posters

As has been the tradition, the standard method of presentation for undergraduates will be posters that will be displayed in several separate sessions during the heart of the conference. Undergraduates interested in participating should submit their poster themes using the Abstract Submission System available on the ESS website (http://essnet.org) under the Annual Meeting tab. Please indicate that you are an undergraduate student and ensure that your submittal is entered by December 15.

                       

Paper Presentations

A few undergraduate students will be selected to present in regular panel sessions. Undergraduate students wishing to have their work considered for a regular paper session rather than the Undergraduate Poster Sessions must submit their abstracts into the ESS abstract system available on the ESS website (http://essnet.org) under the Annual Meeting tab by October 15. Dr. Shelley White will review those submissions and will notify the selected students. Those students who are not selected for paper presentation will be rolled over into the poster sessions unless we hear that the student does not so wish. If your abstract is accepted for a paper session, the completed paper must be sent to Dr. White by December 10 for final review.

Dr. Shelley White

mwhite8@worcester.edu​

 

Deadlines for Grants, Fellowships, etc.  (http://provost.gmu.edu/graduate-fellowships/)

 

October 10, 2014