Faculty News
Joachim Savelsberg – new ASC Fellow
Professor Savelsberg is among a select group of faculty awarded the American Society of Criminology honorary title of "Fellow" in the July/August newsletter. This recognition is for those who have made a scholarly contribution to the intellectual life of the discipline and made a significant contribution to the field through the career development of other criminologists. To learn more, see page 32 within the newsletter.
August 7th, 2008Teresa Gowan Wins CLA Teaching Award
The CLA Student Board has selected Teresa Gowan as the recipient of the 2007-08 Outstanding Professor Award. Nominations are sought from CLA students and only one professor is honored each year. Congratulations, Teresa!!
May 16th, 2008Prof Page- one of our leading criminology experts
Josh Page is in the news for a report entitled Unlocking America which explores the causes of the exploding prison population and offers suggestions for reversing the numbers.
May 13th, 2008Prof Warren's High School Exit Exam Study
New research coauthored by Rob Warren finds that state high school exit exams harm those who fail and provide no benefit for those who pass. This research was also featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
May 13th, 2008Prof Stryker Wins Guggenheim Award
Robin Stryker awarded a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship in recognition of her work in government regulation of equal employment opportunity.
May 2nd, 2008University of MN President's Faculty Multicultural Research Awards
Logan and Swartz are recipients of President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award IDEA grants are designed to support innovative and transformative projects, programming, events, and research that support underrepresented and marginalized students, faculty, staff, and communities. Logan's project title is "On Dreams Deferred and American Dreams: African-American Perspectives on Immigration and Race in the Contemporary U.S." and Swartz's is "Growing Up But Not Apart: Intergenerational Relations and the Transition to Adulthood."
March 26th, 2008Faculty, Grad Students & Alumni Collaborate for Special Issue!
The Special Issue of New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development: Social Class and the Transitions to Adulthood (No. 119; Spring 2008) edited by Profs. Jeylan Mortimer and Frank Furstenberg includes work by Profs. Teresa Swartz, Ann Meier, Christopher Uggen, Erin Kelly, and Jeylan Mortimer; graduate students Gina Allen, Samantha Ammons, and Heather McLaughlin; and alumni Profs. Pamela Aronson (U MI-Dearborn), Jeremy Staff (Penn State), and Amy Blackstone (U Maine).
March 18th, 2008First Minnesota issue of Contexts now available!
February 26th, 2008
Contexts aims to make sociological research dynamic for and interesting to the educated lay reader. Drawing from sociology and its related fields, Contexts includes feature articles, photography, summaries of the latest social science research, news about the field, and book and culture reviews of today’s provocative topics. Contributors challenge outdated ideas, stimulate creative thinking, and start lively debate. Contexts is available at University of Minnesota Bookstores, at www.contexts.org and select Barnes & Noble bookstores in the Twin Cities area. For more information, call Contexts Managing Editor Amy Johnson Conner at 612-624-0245 or amy@contexts.org. The first Minnesota issue features articles on the growing presence of religion and its study on college campuses, a study on the relationship between crime and immigration by Harvard University Sociology Professor Robert Sampson, America’s hero worship of firefighters, and Disney’s Ratatouille as a study in social hierarchy.Prof Hartmann Wins MSS Award
Prof. Douglas Hartmann has been selected to receive the inaugural Midwest Sociological Society Early Career Scholarship Award for 2008. This award draws attention to the quality of scholarship being produced by younger scholars (Ph.D. within the past 10 years) and underscores the Society’s commitment to the professional development of younger scholars. He will be given this award at their annual meetings in St. Louis, MO, March 27-30, 2008.
February 11th, 2008Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King win ASA Article Award
Prof. Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King received the American Sociological Association Section on Culture Article Award for "Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States," published in the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 579-616. They were awarded the Law and Society Association's article award for the same article in 2006. Congratulations, Joachim and Ryan!!
October 16th, 2007Prof Meier Research in May 2007 AJS
Prof. Ann Meier’s American Journal of Sociology article, “Adolescent First Sex and Subsequent Mental Health,” was also featured in the New York Times on June 5, 2007. Her research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, examines changes in depression and self-esteem after teenage sex. Though a decade of federally sponsored abstinence education initiatives have suggested that non-marital sex is psychologically harmful, Meier finds that negative effects on mental health are confined to a small proportion of those who have sex earlier than their peers and in uncommitted relationships. Read more in the press release.
June 6th, 2007Sociology Faculty in the News
Several stories from our 2007 Facets Magazine (PDF) have been picked up by UMNews and by other news outlets. Read about Prof. Ann Hironaka’s research in “Fighting Words.” Learn about a collaborative project with Prof. Ross Macmillan and graduate student Gina Allen in “Growing Up With Disability.” Read about Prof. Rob Warren’s research on high school exits exams, “Do they make the grade?” and take a look at the project website.
June 6th, 2007Prof Samaha Wins U-wide Teaching Award
Prof. Joel Samaha has been awarded the 2006-07 Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. The formal award presentation took place on April 23, 2007 at the McNamara Alumni Center. Read more stories and see photos from the event.
March 29th, 2007Prof Kruttschnitt Named Scholar of the College
Prof. Candace Kruttschnitt has been selected as one of the 2007-10 Scholars of the College. The Scholar of the College award is given annually by the College of Liberal Arts to acknowledge outstanding achievement by faculty in the college. Scholars of the College are chosen on the basis of past accomplishments and contributions in the areas of scholarship/creative activity, teaching, and service, and the promise of further achievement.
March 28th, 2007Prof Broadbent Hosts Int’l Climate Change Conference
The Comparative Climate Change Policy Network (ComPoN) held its first conference, Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change: Lessons from Cross-National and Global Social Science Research, on January 25-28, 2007 at the University of Minnesota, hosted by Prof Broadbent. In the public conference, speakers discussed their existing comparative social scientific research on global environmental issues, with a focus on the science-policy interface. In the following workshop, network experts and country case investigators discussed how to build on existing research and design the ComPoN survey. Read the UMN News story “Climate change is easy; breaking habits is hard.”
February 20th, 2007Professor Malmquist Receives APA Book Award
Prof. Carl Malmquist has been selected to receive the 2007 American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for his book, Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective (2nd ed.), published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. This annual award, co-sponsored by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) and supported by an endowment from Professional Risk Management Services, Inc., honors outstanding contributions to the literature in forensic psychiatry. The award will be presented in May 2007 at the APA Annual Meetings in San Diego. Prof. Malmquist will present a lecture at the award presentation. Read more in the press release.
February 15th, 2007"CONTEXTS" Comes to the U of M
"Contexts", one of the flagship publications of the American Sociological Association, will be coming to the University of Minnesota Department of Sociology summer 2007. With its mission of bringing sociological knowledge and information to a broader public audience, "Contexts" fits well with the Department's commitment to engaged sociology. Profs. Chris Uggen and Doug Hartmann will be the co-editors while it is based here from 2008-2010.
February 14th, 2007Profs Kelly, Moen & Savelsberg Named IAS Fellows
We are pleased to announce that among the Institute for Advanced Study Residential Faculty Fellows for 2007-08 are Sociology Professors Erin Kelly, Phyllis Moen and Joachim Savelsberg. The Institute for Advanced Study is designed to promote interdisciplinary research and creative activity.
February 9th, 2007Visiting Professor Jukka Savolainen joins Department
Jukka Savolainen will be joining the Department of Sociology as a Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professor beginning Spring 2007. Professor Savolainen's academic career has been split between Finland and the United States, including earning his BA and MA from the University of Helsinki and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Albany. He is currently a Senior Research Analyst at the National Research Institute for Legal Policy, Finland, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and a lecturer at the School of Law at the University or Helsinki. Prof. Savolainen has taught classes in criminology and delinquency, research methods, and world population issues. His current research is concerned with adolescent victimization and offending, the effects of sentencing on recidivism and other personal outcomes, and early childhood predictors of a criminal conviction.
January 8th, 2007Sociology Faculty On Radio Program Highlighting University Experts
Listen to Sociology Faculty who have been highlighted on the radio in the U of M Moment series. These include Erin Kelly on the topic of family and work life (September 22, 2005), Phyllis Moen on middle class working couples (August 14, 2006), and Jeylan Mortimer on high school jobs and career choices (August 29, 2006).
December 1st, 2006Edgell and Tranby in Social Problems
Professor Penny Edgell and fifth-year student Eric Tranby have collaborated together on a paper entitled "Religious Influences on Understandings of Racial Inequality in the United States." The paper has been accepted by the peer reviewed journal Social Problems and is forthcoming.
September 13th, 2006American Mosaic Project in the News
The American Mosaic Project has gained media attention with its most recent findings on racial identity among whites. See the press release and the project website for more details.
September 8th, 2006Professor Goldman receives Fellowship
Prof. Michael Goldman was awarded a senior fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) based at the University of Chicago. The fellowship will finance his research on the "Making of a World-City" in Bangalore, India during 2006-07.
September 5th, 2006Professors Hartmann & Gerteis Win Article Award
Profs Doug Hartmann and Joe Gerteis have been awarded the 2006 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for their 2005 Sociological Theory article, "Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms."
July 28th, 2006Professor Edgell Wins ASA Section Book Award
Prof. Penny Edgell's book, "Religion and Family in a Changing Society" has won the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion section 2006 Book Award. The award was presented at the ASA meeting in Montreal.
July 21st, 2006Professor Hull Receives Research Funding Award
Professor Kathy Hull received funding from the Schochet GLBT Research Award program. This award, made possible by an endowment provided by Stephen J. Schochet with additional funding provided by the College of Liberal Arts and the Office for Multicultural and Academic Affairs, encourages and supports research related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, particularly in a North American context.
July 8th, 2006Professor Kruttschnitt ASA Section Chair Elect
Prof. Candace Kruttschnitt has been elected the Chair-Elect of the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law and Deviance Section. She was also elected to be a member of the Sociological Research Association.
July 6th, 2006Professor Boyle ASA Section Chair Elect
Prof. Elizabeth Boyle has been elected Chair of the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Law section. She will serve as Chair-Elect for 2006-2007 and then as Chair from 2007-08.
July 6th, 2006Prof Goldman receives McKnight Presidential Fellow
Professor Michael Goldman was awarded a 2006 McKnight Presidential Fellow. The award singles out the most promising faculty who hold tenure and the rank of associate professor. The awards include three year of financial support. Read more.
July 4th, 2006Professor Gerteis Receives SSHA Book Award
Prof. Joe Gerteis received the 2006 President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association for his new manuscript entitled "Class and the Color Line," forthcoming with Duke University Press.
June 9th, 2006Professor Savelsberg and Ryan King Receive Article Award
Prof. Joachim Savelsberg and alumni Ryan D. King are the recipients of the Law and Society Association's 2006 Article Award for "Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States." The article was published in 2005 in the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 579-616.
June 8th, 2006Professors Stryker and Schofer Named IAS Fellows
We are pleased to announce that among the Institute for Advanced Study Residential Faculty Fellows for 2006-07 are Sociology Professors Robin Stryker and Evan Schofer. The Institute for Advanced Study is designed to promote interdisciplinary research and creative activity.
June 8th, 2006Professor Broadbent Awarded Abe Fellowship
Prof. Jeffrey Broadbent has been awarded the Abe Fellowship for the 2006-2008 period. The Abe Fellowship, offered by the Japan Foundation through the Social Science Research Council, is awarded annually to scholars conducting research on matters of contemporary mutual policy relevance to Japan and the United States. Prof. Broadbent's research project concerns "Reciprocity and Negotiation on Diffuse Risks: Climate Change Policy-Networks in Japan, the United States, Germany and Austria."
June 8th, 2006Professor Moen Wins Book Award
The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream, by Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling, has won an award from the Professional and Scholarly Publication (PSP) section of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Their book was selected by the PSP as the best publication in sociology in 2005.
June 8th, 2006Professor Stryker Receives Article Awards
Prof. Robin Stryker's article “The Strength of a Weak Agency: Enforcement of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Expansion of State Capacity, 1965-1971," with Nicholas Pedriana (AJS 2004), recieved the 2005. Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Law. The same article was also recognized as a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Honorable Mention for Best Article, from the American Sociological Association Political Sociology Section.
June 7th, 2006Uggen named Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Sociology Professor Chris Uggen has been chosen as one of the four 2006 Distinguished McKnight University Professors. The goal of the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship program is to honor and reward the University's highest-achieving faculty whose work and reputation are identified with Minnesota, who bring renown and prestige to the University, and who can be expected to make additional significant contributions to their discipline in the future. He will hold the title "Distinguished McKnight University Professor" for as long as he remains at the University of Minnesota.
June 6th, 2006Professor Stryker Named Scholar of the College
Prof. Robin Stryker has been named Scholar of the College for 2004. The Scholar of the College award was established to acknowledge outstanding achievement by faculty in the College of Liberal Arts. Scholars of the College are chosen on the basis of their past accomplishments and the promise of further accomplishment. The award includes financial support for 2004-2007.
June 5th, 2006