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Graduate Student Prior Achievements
National and International
Arturo Baiocchi: 2009 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Minority Fellowship Program, American Sociological Assocaition.
Rachael Kulick: 2008 Fulbright Fellowship; 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant
Dalhia Mani: 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
Erika Busse: 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant
Yu-Ju Chien: 2008 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF); 2007-08 Study Abroad Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwanese Government, R.O.C.
Kristin Carbone Lopez: 2005 National Institute of Justice Graduate Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime Student Paper Award
Brian Dill: 2004 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (with Ronald Aminzade); 2002 Fulbright-Hays Kiswahili Group Project Abroad, Tanzania; 2002 Vincent L. Hawkinson Peace and Justice Scholarship
Sarah Flood: 2004 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (with Joachim Savelsberg)
Francisco J. Granados: 2004 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (with David Knoke); 2003 American Sociological Association Economic Sociology Section Graduate Student Paper Award
Katja Guenther: 2004 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (with Robin Stryker); Graduate Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Jin Woong Kang: 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
James Saliba: 2008, 2009 Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research (MITER) Fellowship (US Department of Education)
Other U of M Awards
Ryan Alaniz: 2008 Graduate School Thesis Research Grant.
Gina Allen: 2007 Sociology Department Life Course Center Fellowship
Arturo Baiocchi: 2008 Student Technology Fee Small Grant, Office of Information Technology, College of Liberal Arts
Erika Busse: 2009 Martindale Award; 2007 Office of International Programs Research and Writing Dissertation Fellowship; 2007 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Xingxiang Chen: 2009 University of Minnesota Graduate School Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship; 2008 Department of Sociology Martindale Award
Amelia Corl: 2008 Student Technology Fee Small Grant, Office of Information Technology, College of Liberal Arts; 2008 Human Rights Program Internship Stipend
Paul Croll: 2008 Department of Sociology American Mosaic Project Dissertation Fellowship
Eric Dahlin: 2008 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Katja Guenther: 2005 U. of MN Graduate School 'Best Dissertation' Award; 2004-05 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant
Elaine Hernandez: 2009 University of Minnesota Children, Youth and Family Consortium Fellowship.
Heather Hlavka: 2007 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Jin Woong Kang: 2009 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2009 Department of Sociology Martindale Award
Rehema Kilonzo: 2004 MacArthur Predissertation Fieldwork Research Grant; 2002-03 Compton Peace Fellowship; 2002-03 MacArthur Scholar
Rachael Kulick: 2009 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2007 Institute for Global Studies Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Jin Woong Kang; 2008 Department of Sociology Anna Welsch Bright Memorial Award; 2008 University of Minnesota Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Travel Grant
Jennifer Lee: 2005 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Wesley Longhofer: 2008 Office of International Programs International Pre-Dissertation Small Grant
Dalhia Mani: 2008 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2008 Department of Sociology Anna Welsch Bright Memorial Award; 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
Ana Prata Pereira: 2005 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant
James Saliba: 2009 Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research (MITER) Fellowship (US Department of Education)
Shelly Schaefer: 2008 Department of Sociology Life Course Center Fellowship
Fortunata Songora: 2005 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2003 Compton Peace Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2003 Office of International Programs Dunn Peace Research Scholarship
Alexandra Stein: 2005 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Michael Vuolo: 2008 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Peter Wruck: 2007, 2008, 2009 Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research (MITER) Fellowship, US Department of Education
2011 Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Fellows
Ryan Alaniz (with Ross Macmillan): “Longitudinal Effects on Human Development in Central America after Hurricane Mitch.”
Laurie Knies (with Rob Warren): “The Role of Childhood Sickness in Stratifying Adult Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from Late 19th Century America.”
Suzy McElrath (with Chris Uggen): “Gender Equality and the Great Rape Decline.”
Stephen Suh (with Lisa Park): “Sub/urban Somalis: New Possibilities and Pitfalls of Immigrant Entrepreneurialism.”
Alain Vandormael (with Ann Meier): “AIDS Knowledge in the Sub-Saharan Context: A Case Study of Ghana, 1993-2008.”
Sarah Whetstone (with Teresa Gowan): “Race, Poverty, and Punishment in Post-Treatment Life: The Challenges of Addiction Recovery and Social Reintegration.”
2010 Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Fellows
Amy Alsup (with Penny Edgell): “Discourses of the Sandinista Revolution: An Analysis of Two Nicaraguan Newspapers from 1979-1990.”
Scott DeMuth (with David Pellow): “Terrorizing Dissent: The AETA and Social Movements.”
Rachel Grewell (with Rachel Schurman): “Food Insecurity, Access, and the Community Food Movement: An Ethnographic Assessment of the Farmers Market Nutrition Program.”
Meghan Krausch (with Douglas Hartmann): “Rethinking Social Change: Toward a More Nuanced Theory of Movement, Social Science, and Modernity.”
Sarah Lageson (with Christopher Uggen): “Employer Decisions Regarding Criminal Records: A Comparison of Self-Reported and Observed Behavior.”
Madison Van Oort (with Teresa Gowan): “Job Support Networks, Masculinity, and the Economic Recession.”
2009 Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Fellows
Caren Arbeit (with Eric Grodsky): "Should Everyone Go to College? Examining the Consequences of the College-for-All Ethos."
Kyungmin Baek (with Erin Kelly): "Non-Compliance with Work Family Policies in Korean Organizations: Extending Institutional Research to a New Legal Context."
Amelia Corl (with Rachel Schurman): "Understanding the Problem of Child Soldiers: Organizational Responses and the Evolution of a Movement."
Sinan Erensu (with Michael Goldman): "Redistribution in the Age of Neoliberalism: Conservative Charities in Turkey."
Kia Heise (with Joshua Page): "Content Analysis of News Media Portrayal of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association 1988-2007."
Elaine Hernandez (with John Robert Warren): "The Effects of Macro- and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Status on Child Mortality in Brazil, 1970-2000."
Wenjie Liao (with Joachim Savelsberg): "Legal Consciousness and Administrative Litigation in Contemporary China."
Jessica Molina (with Christopher Uggen): "Discrimination Experiences and Responses in Adolescence and Adulthood."
June Msechu (with Cawo Abdi): "Renegotiating Filial Obligation and Marital Arrangements in the Era of HIV/AIDS. A Case Study of Selected Change Communities of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania."
Daniel Winchester (with Penny Edgell): "A Feel For the Faith: Cultivating Sacred Know-How in a Not-so-Secular World."
2008 Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Fellows
Xinxiang Chen (with David Knoke): "Sectoral Differences in Health Benefits and Performance-Based Incentives: A Comparative Empirical Study."
J. Taylor Danielson (with Joseph Gerteis): "One Nation, Under God? Understanding the Intersection of Race and Religion in Defining American National Identity."
Shannon Golden (with Elizabeth Boyle): "Organizational Support Networks and African Immigrant Acculturation."
Kristin Haltinner (with Ronald Aminzade): "Membership in High-Risk Social Movements: an Examination of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps."
Andrew Johnson (with Teresa Gowan ): "The Street Children of Sao Paulo: Who They Are and Why They Are on the Streets."
Liying Luo (with Joachim Savelsberg): "The Name Game: Collective Memory and Street Names."
Dalhia Mani (with David Knoke): "Global Network Structure and Positionality: A Study of the U.S. Shareholding Network."
Darin Mather (with Penny Edgell): "Educating Girls in Guatemala: A Comparison of Evangelical and Secular Approaches."
Heather McLaughlin (with Douglas Hartmann): "A Title IX Success Story? The Growth of Girls ' and Women's Ice Hockey in Minnesota."
Andria Strano (with Kathleen Hull): "The Construction and Contestation of "Family" in LGBT Communities."
Graduate Student Publications
Gina Allen: with Meier. 2009. "Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." The Sociological Quarterly 50(2).
Arturo Baiocchi : with MacMillan. Forthcoming. "Conceptualizing The Dynamics of Lives and Historical Times: Life Course Phenomena, Institutional Dynamics and Sociohistorical Change." in Social Change and Human Development, edited by R.K. Silbereisen. London, UK: Sage Press.
Erika Busse: Forthcoming. "Peruvians in the U.S.: Latinos and Latinas." In U.S. History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by C. Lugo-Lugo and D.J. Leonard. M.E. Sharpe.
Xingxang Chen: with Knoke. 2008. "Political Perspectives on Inter-Organizational Networks." Pp. 441-472 in The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations, edited by S. Cropper, M. Ebers, C. Huxham, and P. Ring. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Eric Dahlin: with Kelly, and Moen. 2008. "Is Work the New Neighborhood? Social Ties in the Workplace, Family, and Neighborhood." The Sociological Quarterly 49:719-736.
Andrew Halpern-Manners: with Warren, and Brand. Forthcoming. "Dynamic Measures of Primary and Secondary School Characteristics: implications for School Effects Research." Social Science Research.
Elaine Hernandez: with Moen. Forthcoming. "Social Convoys: studying Linked Lives in Time, Context and Motion." In Methods of Life Course Research, edited by J. Zollinger Giele and G. Elder.
Reiping Huang: with Moen, Kelly. 2008. "'Fit' Inside the Work-Family Black Box: An Ecology of the Life Course, Cycles of Control Reframing." Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 81(3):411-433.
Minzee Kim: with Boyle. Forthcoming. "International Human Rights, Neoliberal Economic Reforms, and Child Well-Being." Law and Society Review.
Wesley Longhofer: with Katovich. Forthcoming. "Mystification of Rock." In Studies in Symbolic Interaction, edited by N. Denzin. JAI Press.
Nicole MartinRogers: with Rausch, and Mattessich, "Communities that Don't Bowl in the Fog." Contexts 8(1) Heather McLaughlin: McLaughlin, Heather, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2008. "Social Class and Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood." New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:85-98.
Timothy Ortyl: with Meier, and Hull. Forthcoming. "Young Adult Relationship Values at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality." Journal of Marriage & Family.
Sadie Pendaz: 2008. "God the Economist? Economics and Religion in an Inter-Faith Business Organization." In The Sociology of Religion: A Substantive and Transdisciplinary Approach, edited by G.N. Lundskow. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Shelly Schaefer: with Uggen. Forthcoming. "Juvenile Delinquency and Desistance." In Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by A. Furlong. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge Press
Donna Spencer: E. Kelly, E., Eric Dahlin, and Phyllis Moen. 2008. "Making Sense of a Mess: Phased Retirement Policies and Practices in the United States." Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 23(12):147-164.
Eric Tranby: with Hartmann. 2008. "Critical Whiteness Theories and the Evangelical Race Problem: Extending Emerson and Smith's Divided by Faith." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47(3): 341-359.
Michael Vuolo: with Kruttschnitt. 2008. "Prisoners' Adjustment, Correctional Officers, and Context: The Foreground and Background of Punishment in Late Modernity." Law and Society Review, 42(2):307-36.
Daniel Winchester: 2008. "Embodying the Faith: Religious Practice and the Making of a Muslim Moral Habitus." Social Forces 86(4):1753-1780.
Jesse Wozniak: with Uggen. Forthcoming. "Real Men Use Nonlethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry." Feminist Criminology.
Xi Zhu: with Knoke. Forthcoming. "Community Philanthropy." In The International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, edited by H. Anheier and S. Toepler. New York: Springer.
National and International Awards
Other UMN Awards
