Graduate Student Achievements
2005 U of M Graduate School 'Best Dissertation' Award winner, Dr. Katja Guenther (R) with her Advisor, Professor Robin Stryker (L).
National and International Awards
Summer 2007 Graduate Research Partnership
Summer 2006 Graduate Research Partnership
Summer 2005 Graduate Research Partnership
Other U of M Awards to Graduate Students
Graduate Student Publications
Faculty, 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, 2008National and International Awards
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: 2002 Fulbright-Hays Kiswahili Group Project Abroad, Tanzania; 2002 Vincent L. Hawkinson Peace and Justice Scholarship; 2004 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (with Ron Aminzade)
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)
Lisette Haro: 2002-03 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Predoctoral Fellowship, Minority Fellowship Program, American Sociological Association
Erik Larson: 2003 American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (ASA/NSF Small Grants Program).
Michael Massoglia: 2002 NRSA-NIMH Mental Health and Adjustment in the Life Course three-year predoctoral training grant
Colman Titus Msoka: 2002 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Ana Prata Pereira: 2003-04 Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Fellowship
Jeremy Staff: 2002 NRSA-NIMH Mental Health and Adjustment in the Life Course three-year predoctoral training grant
June 21st, 2007Summer 2007 Graduate Research Partnership Program
Julie Barrows: “Gang Task Forces: Formation, Network Structures and Effectiveness”
Vania Brightman: “Exotic Dance as Work and as Play: Linking Femininity, Power, and the Body” (with Teresa Gowan)
Yu-Ju Chien: “Advocacy Networks and Policy Response to Climate Change in Taiwan” (with Jeffery Broadbent)
Minzee Kim: “The Effect of Cultural and Economic Globalization on Child Well-being” (with Elizabeth Boyle)
Nicole MartinRogers: “Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Economic Self-reliance Measures among Social Service Clients” (with Scott Eliason)
Jeremy Minyard: “Applied Commemorations of the My Lai Massacre in Contemporary Response to American Military Atrocities in Iraq” (with Joachim Savelsberg)
Ryan Moltz: “White Masculinity and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps” (with Joshua Page)
Kirsten O'Brien: “The Emergent Church: Young Adulthood and Religious Experience” (with Penny Edgell and Ann Meier)
Raphi Rechitsky: “Negotiating the Legitimacy of Survival Strategies in Postsocialist Ukraine” (with Michael Goldman)
Eric Tranby: “Conterfactual Models of Family Policy Effects: Family Policy, the Family Life Course, and Women’s Employment Outcomes in West Germany” (with Robin Stryker)
June 21st, 2007Summer 2006 Graduate Research Partnership Program
Arturo Biaocchi: “Privatization, Welfare Reform and the New Business of Foster Care: An Examination of Market-oriented Practices in Foster Care Services” (with Teresa Swartz)
Eric Dahlin: “The Impact of Globalization on National Income Inequality” (with Evan Schofer)
Sarah Flood: “Complexities of Work and Retirement Contingent on Gender and Marital Status” (with Carolyn Liebler)
Andrew Halpern-Manners: (with John Robert Warren)
Jin Kang: “The Mechanism of Disciplinary Bio-Power: North Korean Socialist Reform and Social Transformation” (with Michael Goldman)
Pao Lee: “The Construction of Ethnic Identity and Deviance as Perceived by Hmong Import Racers” (with Douglas Hartmann)
Susan Mlangwa: “HIV/AIDS Interventions in Tanzania” (with Ann Meier)
Trina Smith: “The Dynamics of Neighborhood Boundaries: Exclusions and Inclusions” (with Joseph Gerteis)
Aren Wish: Collective Memory and Holocaust Reparations” (with Joachim Savelsberg)
Jesse Wozniak: “’Why Did They Attack Us?’: Extending Stark's Theory of Police Riots” (with Christopher Uggen)
June 1st, 2006Summer 2005 Graduate Research Partnership Program
Erika Busse: "Ethnic and Cultural Differences in Family Formation" (with Doug Hartmann)
Eric Dahlin: "Historical Changes in the Conception of Citizenship” (with Ann Hironaka)
Sarah Flood: “The Feminization of the Labor Force: Implications for Work-Family Linkages, 1950-2000” (with Ross Macmillan and Phyllis Moen)
Francisco J. Granados: "Interorganizational Alliance Diversity, Firm Status Change, and Performance in the Global Information Sector, 1989-2000" (with David Knoke)
Heather Hlavka: "The Effects of Victimization Research on Women Experiencing Violence" (with Candace Kruttschnitt)
Reiping Huang: "An Investigation of the Cumulative Impacts of Job Characteristics Across the Career on Health Outcomes" (with Rob Warren)
Gulseren Isik: "Gendered Responses to Legal Pluralism: Muslim Migrants in America and Holland" (with Elizabeth Boyle)
Wesley Longhofer: “The Sources of Civil Society: A Cross-National Statistical Analysis of Non-Governmental Organization, 1990-2000" (with Evan Schofer)
Eunhye Yoo: "State, Intellectuals and Citizens
June 1st, 2006
in the Public Sphere During 1945-1950: Comparative Analysis on
Korea and Japan" (with Jeff Broadbent)Other University of Minnesota Awards to Graduate Students
Xingxiang Chen: 2004 MacArthur Predissertation Fieldwork Research Grant
Timothy Clark: 2003 MacArthur Predissertation Fieldwork Research Grant
Francisco J. Granados: 2002 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant
Katja Guenther: 2004-05 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant
Rehema Kilonzo: 2004 MacArthur Predissertation Fieldwork Research Grant; 2002-03 Compton Peace Fellowship; 2002-03 MacArthur Scholar
Jennifer Lee: 2005-06 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation
FellowshipWendy Leo Moore: 2003-04 Law School Admissions Council's Doctoral Dissertation Award
Colman Titus Msoka: 2002-03 Compton Peace Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Ana Prata Pereira: 2005-06 University of Minnesota Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation International Research GrantFortunata Songora: 2005-06 University of Minnesota Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship; 2003-04 Compton Peace Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2003-04 Dunn Peace Research Scholarship, Office of International ProgramsAlexandra Stein: 2005-06 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation
FellowshipAndrew Ellias State: 2003 MacArthur Predissertation Fieldwork Research Grant
June 1st, 2006
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Graduate Student Publications
Erika Busse: "Institutional Vulnerability and Opportunity: Immigration and America's 'War on Terror,'" with Elizabeth Boyle, Law and Social Inquiry (forthcoming Vol. 31:3, 2006)
Brian Dill: "Historians and the Study of Protest," with Ronald Aminzade. Forthcoming, Social Movements across Disciplines, edited by Bert Klandermans and Conny Roggeband. Amsterdam: Springer Press.
Christina Falci: "Family Structure, Closeness to Residential and Non-Residential Parents, and Psychological Distress in Early and Middle Adolescence," The Sociological Quarterly 47:123-146, 2006.
Heather Hlavka: "Revictimizing the Victims? Interviewing Women about Interpersonal Violence," with Candace Kruttschnitt and Kristin Carbone-López .Forthcoming, The Journal of Interpersonal Violence 22, 9. "Children's Accounts Count: A Discourse Analysis of Children's Disclosures of Sexual Assault," Sex and Gender Graduate Student Showcase, April Newsletter 2006. "Perspectives on Female Sex Offending: A Culture of Denial," Review of Myriam Denov, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 44:333-334, 2005.
Wesley Longhofer: French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age by Suzanne Freidberg. Book Review. Forthcoming. Rural Sociology 71(3).
Trina Smith: "Power and Autonomy in the History of Children's Rights," with Elizabeth Boyle and Katja Guenther. Chapter in Youth, Globalization and Law, edited by Sudhir Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir. Stanford University Press. "A Feminist Sociologist's Reflections of Beijing +10." 2005. Network News. Volume XXII. No 1.
Donna Spencer: "Converging Divergences in Age, Gender, Health, and Well-Being: Strategic Selection in the Third Age," with Phyllis Moen. In Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. 6th Edition. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, Inc.
Alexandra Stein: "Troubles overcome are good to tell," chapter in Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias. 2006. Bay Tree Publishing, Berkeley, CA. Book Review: Margaret Hollenbach's Lost and Found. Cultic Studies Review, Vol 4, 1 2005
Eric Tranby: "The Welfare State, Family Policies and Women's Labor Market Participation: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis," with Robin Stryker and Scott Eliason. Forthcoming, Method and Substance in Comparative Political Economy. Edited by Lane Kenworthy and Alexander Hicks. New York: Russell Sage.
Sara Wakefield: "Young Adults Reentering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: The Challenge of Becoming an Adult," with Christopher Uggen. Forthcoming in On Your Own without a Net: the Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, Mike Foster, and Connie Flanagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. "Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry," with Christopher Uggen and Bruce Western. Pp. 209-43 in Prison Reentry and Public Safety edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005
Melissa Weiner: "Black Power" by John Ogbar (book review), Contemporary Sociology, forthcoming. "Race in the Classroom" by Jane Bolgatz (book review), Teachers College Record, 2005.