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GRADUATE NEWS

 

Congratulations to Michael Evans who has received a $10,000 J.M. Hepps Fellowship for 2008-09! (May '08)

Congratulations to recent UCSD grad Shannon McMullen, who has accepted a tenure track job at Purdue University!  She will be appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Dr. McMullen looks forward to teaching Critical Theory and a graduate course of her own design.   She defended her dissertation, “Post-Industrial Nature and Culture in the Ruhr District, Germany, 1989-1999,” here last Fall.  Her dissertation chair was Rick Biernacki. (May '08)

Tom Waidzunas’ paper, “Young, Gay, and Suicidal: The Troubled Project of Defining a Social Problem with Statistics,” has been selected as a co-recipient of the award for Best Graduate Student Paper by the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities section.  Congratulations to Tom on this tremendous accomplishment. (April '08)

Congratulations to John Evans and Michael Evans on their forthcoming article in the Annual Review of Sociology, “Religion and Science: Beyond the Epistemological Conflict Narrative.”  The article will be published in August 2008, but you can download it now from the Annu Rev site (accessible from the library page on the UCSD web site).   This piece is related to Michael Evans’ dissertation-in-progress. (April '08)

Second year student Tricia Wang has received a Pac Rim Grant for her project, “Constrained Mobilities: The Use of Information Communication Technology by Urban Migrants in China.” She will conduct research in Shanghai next winter.  She has also received funding to present a paper in Sweden.  Her advisor is Dick Madsen. (April '08)

First year student Jeff Tirshfield received an "Honorable Mention" for his 2008 NSF grant submission for his project, "The Effects of Mass Media Displays of Sportive Violence on Subsequent Non-Sportive Deviant Violent Behavior".  This is quite an honor, given the very competitive NSF field.  Jeff acknowledges the incredible support of Isaac Martin and the entire Grant Writing Workshop, which Isaac led this Fall. (April '08)

Tricia Wang has won the George Mason University’s Science, Technology and Trade Program’s Young Scholars’ competition.   She has been selected as one of the four graduate students (alongside 10 scholars and experts) who will eligible to participate in the July 2008 China-India-US Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Workshop in Bangalore, India.  The award includes an all-expense paid trip to the Indian Institute of Science in  Bangladore and three different cities in India for research purposes.  Congratulations, Tricia! (Mar '08)

Congratulations to Katie Kenny, who has been awarded an SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship. In addition to providing her with research funding for this summer, the fellowship will allow her to participate in dissertation proposal development workshops on "Critical Studies of Science & Technology Policy," led by Sheila Jasanoff and Clark Miller. (Mar '08)

Leah Muse-Orinloff was selected to participate in the Summer Workshop on Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the U.S.  The workshop takes place in Manchester, England and is sponsored by a group of scholars at Harvard. A very select group of graduate students from across the country are invited to participate.  Leah will spend a week in England (all expenses paid) with immigration scholars from the US and Europe discussing the critical issue of immigrant integration. Here is a link to the workshop’s website:  http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/socialchange/research/social-change/summer-workshops/index.html. Congratulations, Leah! (Mar' 08)

Marcelo Bergman, who got a Ph.D. in our department some 5-6 years ago, tells us that the book based on his dissertation has just been accepted for publication by Penn State University Press. The title is "Cheaters, Suckers and Legalists: On Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America". (Feb '08)

Michael Haedicke will be joining Drake University as Assistant Professor of Sociology. Drake is a mid-size private university in Des Moines that grants BA and professional MA degrees. The University is ranked at or near the top of its category by US News and plans to become one of the leading private universities in the country in the coming decade. Michael will teach in the Department for the Study of Society and Culture, in the Environmental Science and Policy program, and in the Engaged Citizenship program. He will teach courses in organizations, food politics and environmental social movements, social problems, theory, and methods.   Michael’s dissertation about the cultural politics of the organic foods industry is titled "Adapting to Contradiction: Institutional Logics and Professional Strategies in the Organic Foods Industry."  His dissertation chair is Rick Biernacki. (Feb '08)

Congratulations to Shehzad Nadeem, who has accepted a tenure track job at Lehman College, City University of New York. Shehzad will be teaching urban sociology and ethnography. For his dissertation, "Dead Ringers: Globalization and the Paradoxes of Development and Identity," Shehzad collected ethnographic and interview data in India and the U.S. to investigate the causes and consequences of international outsourcing. His dissertation advisor is John Skrentny.

The Graduate Program Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of summer research stipends for research projects intended to result in the publication of a paper.  This program is designed to help develop student research skills, writing experience (for both grants and journals), and professionalism.  There were two types of grants available this year: faculty-student collaboration and individual student projects.  Congratulations to all the recipients! (Feb '08)

Steven Epstein &  April Huff       
Sex and the Biopolitics of Vaccination: The Case of Gardasil

Yusuke Mazumi     
Divergent Returns on Human Capital of Mexican Immigrant Workers: The Effect of Contexts of Reception of Traditional and New Destinations

Katherine Kenny   
Educating consumers vs. Dissuading Addicts: The Development of Cigarette Warning Labels in the Unites States and Australia

Erin Cech & Mary Blair-Loy        
Viewing the Glass Ceiling from Above: Ideologies of Meritocracy and Gendered BarriersAmong High-Level Women in Science and Technology Fields

Jeff Haydu & David Kadanoff     
A Test of Theories of New Social Movements and Consumption Politics

Jeff Lundy               
How to Measure Changing Fortunes: A new tool for studying economic inequality

Kevin Moseby        
HIV/AIDS Prevention Research: Theoretical Models and Conceptions of African Americans' Culture, Community, and Race

Raquel Jacob-Almeida     
A Boy Crisis? The Politics of Representing Boys as Academically Disadvantaged

Katie Marker           
The Limitations of Transnationalism

Eric Van Rite          
Safety Culture from the Flight Deck to the Hospital:
Aviation Safety Reporting as a Model for Patient Safety

Congratulations to graduate student Kim Hansen who has recently accepted a job offer for a tenure track position at Mount St. Mary's University, aka "the Mount", located in Maryland. Mount St. Mary's was founded in 1808, and is celebrating 200 years this year. Kim will be teaching Introduction to Sociology and Sociology of Religion. Best wishes to Kim in his new position! (Feb '08)

 

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