Graduate Student Highlight:
The Sociology and Anthropology department would like to congratulate Graduate student Maria’s Valdovinos on winning the AKD graduate paper competition. Her paper, “’Tiny Publics’ and the Extension of the Sociological Imagination to Systems: The Case of Criminal Justice “ has been selected as the third place winner for the competition. Her paper was selected from a very strong pool of papers. Maria Valdovinos we are proud of you for not only for having produced an outstanding piece of sociological writing but also for the long and enduring track record of academic excellence on which this paper was built.
Valdovinos will receive a check for $100.00 it will be presented at the AKD Distinguished Lecture, this year during the ASA Annual Meeting in Seattle.
Publications
Shannon Davis:
Hattery, Angela and Shannon N. Davis. “Teaching Feminist Research Methods: Evidence Based Teaching.” Poster published in Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference Proceedings (http://journals.gmu.edu/ITLCP/article/view/655). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13021/G8F30P.
Haagen Klaus:
Garland, Carey J., Bethany L. Turner, and Haagen D. Klaus. 2015. Biocultural Consequences of Spanish Contact in the Lambayeque Valley Region of Northern Peru: Internal Enamel Micro-Defects as Indicators of Early Life Stress. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2505.
Klaus, Haagen D. In press. Paleopathological rigor and differential diagnosis: Case studies involving terminology, description, and diagnostic frameworks for scurvy in skeletal remains. International Journal of Paleopathology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2015.10.002 1879-9817. Invited contribution in a special issue on rigor in paleopathological research.
John Dale:
Prof. Dale also recently published an article in Critical Sociology with his collaborator David Kyle (University of California, Davis), Dale, J. and Kyle, D. 2016. “Smart Humanitarianism: Re-imagining Human Rights in the Age of Enterprise.” Critical Sociology 42 (4-5): 1-15.
Dale and Kyle were also the guest editors of this special double issue on “Re-imagining Human Rights. The idea for this special issue grew out of an international conference that they organized in New York City in August 2013, with a particular emphasis on researching emerging, meaningful human rights practices in the Global South.
Presentation
Shannon Davis:
Davis, Shannon N. and Angela Hattery. "Toxic Masculinity and Interpersonal Security." Poster presented at George Mason University Multidisciplinary Security Symposium, February 12, 2016.
Lester Kurtz:
Lester Kurtz presented a paper at a conference in Tokyo, Japan on "Warrior and Pacifist Traditions in the Abrahamic Traditions and Buddhism." He will be editing a volume of papers delivered at the conference, to be published in 2017.
Haagen Klaus:
New Discoveries of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Peru. Invited lecture by the Dean of the College of Science and Medicine, Utah Valley University, Jan 25 2016.
Reconstructing Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru: New Discoveries and Interpretations. Invited lecture by the Archaeological Institute of America, Johns Hopkins University, Feb 19 2016.
John Dale:
John Dale was invited to present his research at a conference convening Myanmar experts from around the world, held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
He presented a paper on “The Risky Business of Transformation: Social Enterprise in Myanmar’s Emerging Democracy,” which will be published next year by Cambridge University Press in a new book (edited by Melissa Crouch) focusing on legal reform, the economy and development during Myanmar’s democratic transition.
Linda Seligmann:
Dr. Linda J. Seligmann, Professor of Anthropology, presented “'The Circulation of Children through Transnational and Transracial adoption: Filters, Fantasies, and Fragments,” as part of The Year of the Humanities and The Pittsburgh Consortium of Adoption Studies Speaker series at the University of Pittsburgh. She also presented “Ties that Bind across Racial, Class, and Political Terrain: U.S. Transnational and Transracial Adoption in Comparative Perspective” and did a book-signing at Bucknell University.
BLOG POST
Rashmi Sadana:
Blog post, “The Delhi Metro as Field Site,” Center for Global Studies, GMU. Posted February 22, 2016.
http://cgs.gmu.edu/currentprojects/the-delhi-metro-as-field-site-2.html
GRANTS
Rashmi Sadana:
Grant awarded ($12,000) by New York University Global Initiative Fund for co-organized (with NYU Sociologist Stephane Tonnelat) conference, “Ethnographies of Mass Transportation in a Globalized World,” to be held May 26-27 at NYU.
Other announcements
Haagen Klaus:
Dr. Kluas directed the 2016 Peru Study Abroad Program in January 2016. Three publications are on their way: Publication date set as 25 July 2016 for Ritual Violence in the Ancient Andes: Reconstructing Ritual Killing on the North Coast of Peru (University of Texas Press) edited by Haagen Klaus and Marla Toyne.
Two other edited volumes with the University Press of Florida are now in production. These are: (1) Bones of Complexity: Global Perspectives on the Bioarchaeology of Social Organization, edited by Haagen Klaus, Amanda Harvey, and Mark Cohen, and; (2) Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed: Towards a Global Bioarchaeology of Conquest and Colonialism, edited by Melissa S. Murphy and Haagen D. Klaus.
April 11, 2016
