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Home > Graduate Program : Graduate Student Achievements

Graduate Student Achievements

National and International Awards

Ryan Alaniz: 2011-2012. Society for the Study of Social Problems Graduate Racial/Ethnic Minority Fellowship; 2011. Munich RE Foundation Travel Grant (in support of the United Nations University Summer Academy); 2009 Fulbright Fellowship; 2009 Grassroots Development Fellowship (Inter-American Foundation); 2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Social Science Research Council)

Shannon Golden: 2012. Law and Society Association Travel Award

Lisa Gulya: Summer 2012. Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), Russia

Andrew Johnson: 2012-13. Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University.

Wenjie Liao: 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Liz Boyle is the Co-PI.

Rahsaan Mahadeo: 2013 recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies; 2012 recipient of the Hawkinson Scholarship for peace and justice.

Tim Ortyl: 2011. Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, American Sociological Association Section on Sexualities.

Emily Springer: 2012. Social Science Research Council: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF). In the area of 'Gender Justice in an Era of Human Rights'. 2012 recipient of the Hawkinson Scholarship for peace and justice.

Rob Stewart: 2013. The National Science Foundation award for his project on criminal records in the college admissions process. This NSF program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students with a three-year annual stipend, a cost of education allowance for tuition and fees, and a one-time international travel allowance.

Stephen Suh: 2012–13. US Student Fulbright award to South Korea to examine the legacy of US military occupation of the Korean peninsula following World War II.

Madison Van Oort: 2013. National competition for the best Student Paper in the Poverty, Class and Inequality Division Society for the Study of Social Problems. She will present her paper "Post Recession Governmentalities: Neoliberalism, Job Searching and Comparative Control in Minneapolis." and receive her award at the annual meeting in New York this summer.

Other U of M Awards to Graduate Students

Ryan Alaniz: 2011-2012. Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship, UMN; 2011-2012. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN; 2011. Community of Scholars Program Conference Travel Grant (in support of the U.N. University Summer Academy)

Arta Ankrava: 2011-2012; and Spring 2013. American Latvian Association Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies, Immigration History Research Center

Caren Arbeit: 2009 Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research (MITER) Fellowship (US Department of Education)

Kyungmin Baek: 2011-2012. Anna Welsch Bright Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology,  UMN

Yu-Ju Chien: 2012-13 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF), 2009-10 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (with IAS), 2008 Graduate School Thesis Research Grant

Sinan Erensu: 2012-2013. Anna Welsch Bright Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology,  UMN

Wen Fan: 2013-14. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF)

Shannon Golden: 2012-13 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, through the Human Rights Program at the UMN; 2012. President's Student Leadership and Service Award, UMN; 2011-2012. Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship, UMN; 2011-2012. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award,  Department  of Sociology, UMN; 2009 Institute for Global Studies Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

Kyle Green: 2013-14. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF).

Lisa Gulya: 2012-2013. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

Andrew Halpern-Manners: 2011-2012.Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN

Rachelle Hill: 2011-2012. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF), UMN; 2012. Consortium Student Scholar, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, UMN.

Jeanette Husseman: 2012-13 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF)

Meg Krausch: 2012-2013. Anna Welsch Bright Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology,  UMN

Wenjie Liao: 2013-14. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF), 2012-2013. Anna Welsch Bright Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology,  UMN

Liying Luo: 2012-13 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF)

Suzy McElrath: 2011. Engaged Sociology and Public Sociology Awards. Sociology Research Institute. (Contexts Graduate Editorial Board).

Heather McLaughlin: 2012-13. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF),

Hollie Nyseth Brehm: 2013-14 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). 2012. Dunn Peace Award. 2012. Human Rights Program Travel Grant. 2011-2012. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award  Department of Sociology UMN; 2009 Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship

Tim Ortyl: 2011-2012.Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN; 2010 GLBT Studies Award for Excellence in Creativity and Scholarship (Steven J. Schochet Endowment), Best Public Policy Paper

Raphi Rechitsky: 2013 Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute Fellow, Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Sarah Shannon: 2012-2013. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF), with Minnesota Population Center, UMN; 2012-2013. Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Dissertation Research Grant, U of MN (declined)

Emily Springer: 2012-2013. Anna Welsch Bright Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology,  UMN, 2012-2013. Foreign Language Advanced Study (FLAS) for Advanced Swahili; 2012. Interdisciplinary Center for Global Development (ICGC) Pre-Dissertation Award; 2012. UMN Outstanding Community Service Award

Sarah Whetstone: 2012-13 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF), 2011-2012. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award, Department of Soc., UMN

Daniel Winchester: 2011-2012.Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN; 2011-2012. Bilinski Fellowship (declined)

2013 Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP), American Mosaic Project (AMP) and Life Course Center (LCC) Fellowships

Sean Buuck (with Ann Meier) LCC Summer Fellowship for Concerted Cultivisation: Unexplored Stages and Family Projects.

Jack Delehanty (with Penny Edgell) AMP Summer Fellowship for Religious Outsiders in the American Mosaic: The Religious Languages of the American Mosaic: Symbolic Capital, Logics, and Discourses in American Civic Organizations.

Wen Fan (with Phyllis Moen) CLA GRPP for "Sent-Down" as a Turning Point in the Life Course of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Cohort.

Carolyn Fraker (with Teresa Gowan) CLA GRPP for Paying for "Good" Parenting: CCT's and the State's Construction of Families.

Stefanie Lightner (with Rob Warren) LCC Summer Fellowship for The Return to College Education: A Reassessment of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects.

Alex Manning (with Doug Hartmann) AMP Summer Fellowship for Contemporary Racial Attitudes, Configurations and Colorblindness in the USA.

Raphi Rechitsky (with Doug Hartmann) for AMP Summer Fellowship Racializing Religious Identities? Comparing Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in America.

jim saliba (with Rob Warren) CLA GRPP for Power, Race and Equity: Governance Structure Changes and K-12 Educational Opportunity in the United States.

Emily Springer (with Rachel Schurman) CLA GRAPP for The Culture of Performance Metrics and Knowledge Production - The Case of USAID's Evaluation System.

Joe Svec (with Ann Meier) for Putting Health in its Place: Urban Areas and Health Outcomes in Three Countries.

Andy Wu (with David Knoke) for Structural Predicators of International Migrant Flows in 2000.

2012 Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Fellows

Arta Ankrava (with Lisa Park) CLA GRPP for Latvian American Diaspora: Negotiating a Nation Imagined with Reality after Latvia's Independence.              

Caren Arbeit (with Teresa Swartz) Bilinski GRPP for The Role of Parent Support During the Transition to Adulthood on College Completion.

Jack Delehanty (with Penny Edgell) American Mosaic Project GRPP for Negotiating Compassionate Individualism Ministries and Racial Diversity in the United States.       

Wen Fan (with Phyllis Moen) Life Course Center GRPP for China's Cultural Revolution and its Long-Run Consequences on Health: What is the Mediating Role of Interrupted Education?

Shannon Golden Shannon  (with Elizabeth Boyle, Doug Hartmann, and Joseph Gerteis) American Mosaic Project GRPP for Religion, Race, and Recession: Somali Entrepreneurs in the Twin Cities.          

Jasmine Harris Lamothe (with Phyllis Moen and Teresa Swartz) CLA GRPP for Experiencing Success: An Examination of Professional and Personal Factors Important to the Professional Achievement of Black Women. 

Erin Hoekstra (with Joseph Gerteis) American Mosaic Project GRPP for Perceived Challenges of Diversity and Boundaries of Solidarity.  

Annie Jollymore (with Penny Edgell) CLA GRPP for Innovating Authenticity: Contemplative Worship in the Twin Cities.    

Stefanie Lightner (with Rob Warren) Life Course Center GRPP for Postsecondary Credential Completion after Age 25; Trends since 1968.   

Rahsaan Mahadeo (with Ann Meier) Life Course Center GRPP for Race against Time vs. the Luxury of Time: A study of how differences in circumstance constrain or expand developmental timetable for at-risk youth and their privileged counterparts.  

Hollie Nyseth Brehm (with Chris Uggen) CLA GRPP for Genocide and the Age of Distribution Crime.        

Wahutu Siguru (with Joachim Savelsberg) CLA Bilinski for Representation of Conflicts in Africa in Western and African Media: The Case of Darfur.             

Rebecca Stepnitz (with David Pellow) CLA Bilinski for Market Logic and Environmental Politics: Examining the Sierra Clubs Discursive Shift.

Mayumi Uno (with Teresa Swartz) Bilinski GRPP for National Institutional Contexts and Educational Inequality.        

Graduate Student Publications

Alaniz, Ryan. 2012. “Unsupervised Recovery: Post-Disaster NGO Recovery and Adaptation Strategies in Honduras.” SOURCE. Bonn, Germany: United Nations University. With Peter Daly. 

Alaniz, Ryan. 2011.  “Volunteering in Honduras: A Practical Guide” in Volunteerism in Central America edited by Douglas J. Moody.  Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England.  (Forthcoming). 

Alaniz, Ryan. 2010.  “’Thank God for Mitch:’ Lessons from Post-Mitch Honduras for Post-earthquake Haiti.”  Essays from the Field.  Washington D.C.: Social Science Research Council. 

Ankrava, Arta. 2011. "Negotiation of Latvian Identity in London’s Latvian Community" in Oral History: Migration and Local Identities, Ieva Garda Rozenberga, Mara Zirnite (eds.), pp. 120-138. Riga: National Oral History Archive, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia.

Kyungmin Baek with Kelly, and Jang, (forthcoming) Work-Family Policies in Korean Organizations: Human Resources Management and Institutional Explanations. Asian Business & Management.

Erika Busse.  2011 with Bastia, Tanja. “Transnational Migration and Changing Gender Relations in Peruvian and Bolivian Cities,” Diversities: International Journal on Multicultural Societies 13(1): 19-33. 2011 with Rodrigo Lovatón.

Erika Busse. 2011. “Peruvian Americans.” Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans, edited by Ronald H. Bayor. ABC-CLIO-Greenwood Press (Forthcoming).

Erika Busse. 2010. Review of “Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal” with a selection of her poems by Kathleen Waever. International Feminist Journal of Politics (Forthcoming).

Golden, Shannon. 2011 with Yasin Garad, and Elizabeth Heger Boyle. "Experiences of Somali Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from the Twin Cities", Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies 10:89-102.

Green, Kyle. 2011 "It Hurts So It is Real: Sensing the Seduction of Mixed Martial Arts." Social & Cultural Geography. (special issue on The Limits of the Body).

Green, Kyle with Van Oortt "'We Wear No Pants':Selling the Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials" Signs (forthcoming).
With Hartmann. 2012. "Politics and Sports: Strange, Secret Bedfellows" The Society Pages

Halpern-Manners, Andrew. 2011. “The Effects of Family Member Migration on Education and Work among Nonmigrant Youth in Mexico.” Demography 48(1):73-99.

Moen, Phyllis, Erin Kelly and Rachelle Hill. 2011. “Opting to Stay: Does a Work-Time Control Intervention Reduce Turnover?” Social Problems 58(1):69-98.

Rachelle Hill. 2010 with Moen, Phyllis, Stephen Sweet.. “Risk, Resilience, and Life-Course Fit: Older Couples’ Encores Following Job Loss.” Pp. 283-309 in Resilient Aging. Edited by P.S. Fry & C.L. Keyes Cambridge University Press: NY.

Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “North Korea’s Militant Nationalism and People’s Everyday Lives: Past and Present.” Journal of Historical Sociology  (Forthcoming).

Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “The Disciplinary Politics of Antagonistic Nationalism in Militarized South and North Korea.” Sociological Inquiry (Forthcoming). 2011. “Political Uses of Confucianism in North Korea,” Journal of Korean Studies 16(1):63-87.

Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “Becoming South Korean: South Korea’s Disciplinary Governance and North Korean Settlers’ Identity Formation” Korean Journal of Sociology 45(1):191-227 (in Korean).

Kang, Jin Woong. 2010. “The State and Family in the Two Koreas: The Change of the State System and the Transformation of Familism,” Korean Journal of Sociology 44(5):139-175 (in Korean).

Kang, Jin Woong. 2010. “A Micro-Approach to North Korean State Power: Militant Nationalism and People’s Lives,” Korean Journal of Sociology 44(2):155-194 (in Korean).

Kim, Minzee with Heger Boyle. Forthcoming. “Neoliberalism, Transnational Education Norms, and Education Spending in the Developing World, 1983-2004.” In Gregory C. Shaffer (eds.) Transnational Legal Process and State Change. Cambridge University Press.

Lam, Jack with Moen and Kaduk. (Forthcoming). “Employees under Stress: Does Flexibility Enhance Life-Course Fit?” In Michele Paludi (Ed.), Managing Diversity in Today’s Workplace. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

Longhofer, Wesley with Winchester (Eds). 2012. Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge: NY.

Wes Longhofer. 2011  with Schofer, Evan, David John Frank, Ann Hironaka.“Sociological Institutionalism and World Society.” In The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, and Alan Scott. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (Forthcoming).

Mather, Darin M. 2011. “Divided by Age? Generational Shifts in White Evangelical Christians' Attitudes Towards Racial Diversity” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 7:1-23.

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy McElrath. 2011. "Embedded Sociologists." Contexts(Forthcoming).

McElrath, Suzy with Ferrales. Gender Violence during Wartime. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex, and Crime, edited by Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner.

McLaughlin, Heather with Uggen and Blackstone. Forthcoming. "Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power." American Sociological Review.

Boyle, Elizabeth and Hollie Nyseth. 2011. “Analyzing the Power of Child Rights Discourse in the Global Community.” Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems, edited by Austin Sarat  (Forthcoming).

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy Maves.  2011. “Embedded Sociologists.”  Contexts, Spring.

Savelsberg, Joachim and Hollie Nyseth. 2011. “Collective Representations of Atrocity and National Identity: The Case of Darfur.”   Festschrift fuer Max Haller, edited by Markus Hadler and Franz Hoellinger  (Forthcoming).

Nyseth, Hollie with Pellow. "Environmental Justice: Pollution, Poverty, and Marginalized Communities." Forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Politics.
With Savelsberg, JoachimBook Chapter in Discourses on Darfur: Law, Science, and Media. Cambridge University Press.  Forthcoming.

Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Mayumi Uno, Jeylan Mortimer, Minzee Kim and Kirsten Bengtson O’Brien. 2011. “Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Marriage and Family 73(2): 414-429.       

Ortyl, Tim and Kia Hiese. 2010.  The Sociology of Sex (An Exchange with Pepper Schwartz).  Contexts 9(3): 14-15.

Ortyl, Tim with Hull, Kathleen E., & Timothy Ortyl. Forthcoming. “Same-Sex Marriage and Constituent Perceptions of the LGBT Rights Movement.” (Not) the Marrying Kind, eds. Verta Taylor & Mary Bernstein.  Minneapolis, MN: U Minnesota Press.

Rechitsky, Raphi. 2010 “Rethinking Social Exclusion and Belonging in Global Perspective: The Case of Transnational Migrants in Ukraine” Political Perspectives Special Issue on Migration and Belonging 4(2): 86-104.

Rechitsky, Raphi with Blumberg (forthcoming) “Networks, Place, and Barriers to Cross-Border Organizing: The Case of the 2007 No Border Camp in Ukraine.” Border Crossers, Border Protectors: Social Movements and Globalization, N. Naples and J Bickham Mendez (eds.). New York: NYU Press.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Christopher Uggen. 2011. "Imprisonment as a Political Institution in the United States." Chapter for Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (2nd ed.) (Forthcoming).

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy McElrath. 2011. "Embedded Sociologists." Contexts (Forthcoming).

Shannon, Sarah K.S. 2010. "Dereliction of Duty: Training Schools for Delinquent Parents in the 1940s." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 37:11-27.

Shannon, Sarah with Uggen, and Osgood. Forthcoming 2012. "From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood." Accepted for publication in Inside the Diverse Transitions to Adulthood: How Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives edited by Doug Hartmann and Teresa Swartz. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Smajda, Jon. 2011. "Open Source and the Moral Field of Computing." Journal of Information Technology and Politics (Forthcoming).

Smajda, Jon. 2011. “Publish Early, Publish Often, Publish Online.” CUSS Newsletter, Community & Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association 23 (2).    

Springer, Emily. 2011. "The Developer: Utilizing social types to interrogate the politics of ‘development localities’ & rearticulate individual agency" Reconsidering Development 1(2).

Van Oort, Madison with Green. “‘We Wear No Pants’: Selling the Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. (Forthcoming).

Whetstone, Sarah with Gowan and Andic.  2012. "Addiction, Agency, and the Politics of Self-Control: Doing Harm Reduction in a Heroin Users' Group."  Social Science & Medicine.  74(8): 1251-1260.

Whetstone, Sarah and Teresa Gowan.  2011. "Diagnosing the Criminal Addict:  Biochemistry in the Service of the State" in Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 12:  Sociology of Diagnosis. Edited by P. J. McGann and David J. Hutson.  Howard House, Bingley, UK:  Emerald Books (Forthcoming).

Gowan, Teresa and Sarah Whetstone.  2011.  "Making the Criminal Addict:  Subjectivity and Social Control in a Strong-Arm Rehab."  Punishment & Society.  (Forthcoming.)      

Winchester, Daniel and Steven Hitlin. 2010. “The Good, the Bad, and the Social.” Contexts 9(4):40-44.

Winchester, Daniel with Iddo Tavory, "Experiential Careers: The Routinization and De-Routinization of Religious Life." Theory and Society, July 2012.

Neitz, Mary Jo, Kevin L. McElmurry, and Daniel Winchester. 2010. “New Sociological Narratives of Morality under Modernity: From Subtraction to Multiplicity.” Pp. 181-190 in Routledge’s Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Eds. John Hall, Laura Grindstaff, & Ming-cheng Lo. New York: Routledge.

Winchester, Daniel with Hartmann, Gerteis,and Edgell. 2011. “How Americans Understand Racial and Religious Difference: a Test of Parallel Items from a Recent National Survey.” The Sociological Quarterly 52(3):323-45.

Wu, Chen-Yu with Knoke. Forthcoming. “Policy Network Models.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Public Policy, edited by Eduardo Araral. London: Routledge.

Knoke, David, and Xi Zhu. 2011. “Interest Groups and Pluralism.” In The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (Forthcoming).

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