Two SOAN faculty awarded CGS grants

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology proudly announces the awarding of Center for Global Studies grants to two departmental faculty members: 

Mark Jacobs has won a Research Workshop Grant from the Center of Global Studies to help support an international conference at George Mason next fall on “Amplifying and Evaluating the Concept of Well-Being: Public and Global Dimensions.”  With additional support from the Department and from the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, Jacobs is working with Les Kurtz and Sam Retrosi to assemble distinguished sociologists and other scholars from the U.S., Europe, and Bhutan for a two-day conference, followed by a departmental workshop to examine the role of Public Sociology in the promotion of well-being, as one way of articulating the conception of Public Sociology.  The international conference will have plenaries and panels on human rights, environmental sustainability, social generativity, and the conception and evaluation of well-being.  The European scholars will be board members of the Research Network on Culture of the European Sociological Association.  The conference and ensuing departmental workshop will yield an edited anthology, to which all participants including importantly sociology doctoral students will be invited to contribute. 

Rashmi Sadana has been awarded a Faculty Research Grant from the Center for Global Studies to continue her research on the social impact of Delhi's new metro system. The project uses ethnographic methods to understand the implementation of a massive infrastructure project in one of Asia's most dynamic megacities. It tracks how the social imagination of an Indian city and the Metro as social leveler intersects with issues of urban governance, planning, and aesthetics.