Recent Publications
Ingrid Sandole-Staroste
Together with Dennis Sandole from the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) I wrote the article “Making the Case for Systematic, Gender-based Analysis in Sustainable Peace Building” to be published in January 2016 November 2015 in the peer reviewed journal Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3.
Mark Jacobs
Jacobs has a chapter entitled "The Reciprocal Relation of Scandal to Collective Memory" in the *Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies*, ed. by Anna Lisa Tota and Trever Hagen, just released electronically, with the hard copy to be released this January.
Christopher Taylor
Taylor, Christopher B. 2015 (July). “Madrasa Students and Social Mobility in the Religious Economy: The Case of Nadwat al-‘Ulama.” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 11. http://samaj.revues.org/3932
Taylor, Christopher B. 2015 (July). (co-authored with Raphael Susewind). “Islamicate Lucknow Today: Historical Legacy and Urban Aspirations: Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Lucknow ‘Life with Too Much History.’ ” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 11. http://samaj.revues.org/3911
Lester Kurtz & Mariam Kurtz
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Women, War, and Violence Topography, Resistance, and Hope by Mariam M. Kurtz and Lester R. Kurtz, Editors . Women played key roles in revolutions in Nicaragua, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
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Recent Presentations
Ingrid Sandole-Staroste
Staroste presented the paper, “Gender-Blindness: A Significant Shortcoming of Basic Human Needs Theory and Practice in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, at the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, Peace and Violence Explained? Assessing John Burton’s Legacy, 14-15 September 2015, in Canterbury, Kent, England.
The paper was subsequently published in the on-line journal A New Agenda: Values, World Society, Modelling. Commentary, No. 22, October 2015.
Elizangela Storelli
Storelli, Elizangela. 2015. “Social Support and Well-being among Older Adults in Latin America.” Accepted for presentation at the Aging & Society: Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference, November 5-6, Washington, DC.
Mark Jacobs
Jacobs was invited to present a paper at a Thematic Session of the American Sociological Association this August in Chicago, along with Gary Alan Fine, Michael Schudson, and Josh Gamson, entitled “Sex Scandals and their Consequences: Changing Sheets and Changing Paths.”
Jacobs presented a paper entitled "A Tale of Two Crises," comparing the Congressional Investigations of the Financial Crises of 1929 and 2007, at the Prague meetings of the ESA this August.
Rashmi Sadana
“The Cities We Live In: New Writings from South Asia,” panelist at Fall for the Book Literary Festival. The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, Maryland, October 3.
“In the Ladies’ Coach of the Delhi Metro,” paper given at the Feminist Pre-conference, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 22.
“Sharing the Field: Disciplinary engagements between literature and anthropology,” discussant paper for panel, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October 23.
Awards
Mark Jacobs
Mark Jacobs was awarded grants by Mason's Program for Global Studies and the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being to conduct an international workshop at Mason this November on Public Sociology and Well-Being.
Christopher B. Taylor
Selected for Best Paper by the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA), Graduate Student category. “New Islamic Charities in North India: Re-Thinking Islam’s Moral Economy” http://econanthro.org/awards/harold-k-schneider-prize/
Announcements
Mark Jacobs
As Chair of RN7, the Research Network on the Sociology of Culture of the European Sociological Association, Jacobs was primarily responsible for organizing almost two dozen sessions (including five special sessions) at the Biennial Meetings of the ESA in Prague this August. Jacobs completed his two-year term as Chair at those meetings, but remains on the Board of the RN as the only charter member still active.
Events
AMPLIFYING THE CONCEPT OF "WELL-BEING": GLOBAL AND PUBLIC DIMENSIONS
An International Workshop,co-sponsored by George Mason's Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, and the Provost's Center for Global Studies
How should Well=Being inform a concept of "Public Sociology"?
How schould Public Sociology inform a concept of "Well-Being"?
FRIDAY, NOV. 13
MERTEN HALL, RM. 1200
9:30-10:30. “Real Utopias”
Erik Olin Wright (Wisconsin)
10:30-11:00. Coffee Break.
11:00-1:00. “Human Rights”
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (CUNY)
Joachim Savelsberg (Minnesota)
Jeff Olick (U VA)
1:00-2:00. Lunch.
2:00-4:00. “Building Sustainable Communities”
Bill Kornblum (CUNY)
Sebastian Koos (Konstanz/Harvard)
David Inglis (Exeter)
SATURDAY, NOV. 14
Merten Hall, Rm. 1201
9:30-11:30. “Re-visioning the Future”
Thomas Eberle (St. Gallen)
Anna Lisa Tota (Rome-3)
Trever Hagen (Exeter)
11:30-12:30. Lunch
12:30-2:30. “Issues of Conceptualization and Measurement.”
Margaret Ensminger (Johns Hopkins)
Gene Halton (Notre Dame)
Robin Wagner-Pacifici (New School)
2:30-3:00. Coffee Break.
3.00-4:00. Summary and Reflection.
November 10, 2015
