Recent publications
John Dale
John Dale recently published (with co-author David Kyle) a new article based on their recent research in Myanmar:
Dale, John and David Kyle. “Smart Transitions? Foreign Investment, Disruptive Technology, and Democratic Reform in Myanmar.”
Social Research: An International Quarterly, “Special Issue: From Burma to Myanmar: Critical Transitions” Volume 82, No. 2, (Summer 2015): 291-326.
Shannon Davis
Tuttle, Joshua and Shannon N. Davis. 2015. “Religion, Infidelity, and Divorce: Re-examining the Effect of Religious Behavior on Divorce in Long-Married Couples.” Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 56 (6): 475-489.
Shevchuk, Andrey, Denis Strebkov, and Shannon N. Davis. 2015. “Educational Mismatch, Gender, and Satisfaction in Self-employment: The Case of Russian-language Internet Freelancers.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 16-28.
Rashmi Sadana
“Found in Translation: Self, Caste, and Other in Three Modern Texts,” A History of the Indian Novel in English. Edited by Ulka Anjaria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015: pp. 147-161.
Susan Trencher
"The Redbook Columns" in Corridor Talk to Culture History: Public Anthropology and Its Consequences Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W Gleach University of Nebraska Press.
Katie Kerstetter
Kerstetter, Katie. 2015. “Competing Cultural Narratives: Gender and the Representation of U.S. K-12 Teachers in Contemporary School Reform Policies.” Sociology Compass 9(7): 550-557.
Recent presentations
Shannon Davis
Davis, Shannon N., Andrey Shevchuk, and Denis Strebkov. 2015. “Work Value Orientations and Worker Psycho-social Health Outcomes: Implications of the Job Demand Control and Job Demands-Resources Models among Self-Employed Professionals.” Paper presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL
Hattery, Angela J. and Shannon N. Davis. 2015. “Teaching Feminist Research Methods: A Comment and an Evaluation.” Paper presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL
Katie Kerstetter
Kerstetter, Katie. 2015. "School Reform and the Gendered Organization of Teachers' Work." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.
Press
Fleming, Colby. Sociology BA (2015). Colby is in Bulgaria on a Fulbright grant as an English Teaching Assistant. His blog documents his time there, drawing heavily on his sociological training.
https://postcommunistcolby.wordpress.com/
Other Accolades
John Dale
John Dale, Graduate Program Director of Sociology, has been elected to a three-year term to serve as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Representative on the University’s Graduate Council.
Awards
Daniel Temple
Daniel Temple got a grant from the National Geographic Society for $13,300.00 for the project entitled, "Social identity and reproduction of communal cosmology among Late/Final Jomon period foragers: biodistance and demographic analysis of ritual tooth extraction practices on the Atsumi peninsula."
Marisa Allison
GMU Sociology Ph.D. Candidate Marisa Allison Awarded American Sociological Association’s 2015 Graduate Student Public Sociology Award