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Home > Graduate Program : Graduate Student Achievements

Graduate Student Achievements

Elaine Hernandez - new CYFC Fellow

Graduate student Elaine Hernandez was selected as one of three fellows by the University of Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC). Elaine's project is a study of health information and its relationship to social class among newly pregnant women.

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).

National and International Awards

Ryan Alaniz: 2009 Fulbright Fellowship; 2009 Grassroots Development Fellowship (Inter-American Foundation); 2009 International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Social Science Research Council)

Arturo Baiocchi: 2009 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Minority Fellowship Program, American Sociological Association

Erika Busse: 2009 Martindale Award; 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant

Kristin Carbone Lopez: 2005 National Institute of Justice Graduate Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime Student Paper Award

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.

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

Rachael Kulick: 2008 Fulbright Fellowship; 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Dissertation Improvement Grant

Dalhia Mani: 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship

Other U of M Awards to Graduate Students

Ryan Alaniz: 2008 Graduate School Thesis Research Grant.

Gina Allen: 2007 Sociology Department Life Course Center Fellowship

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

Arturo Baiocchi: 2008 Student Technology Fee Small Grant, Office of Information Technology, College of Liberal Arts

Erika Busse: 2007 Office of International Programs Research and Writing Dissertation Fellowship; 2007 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Amelia Corl: 2008 Student Technology Fee Small Grant, Office of Information Technology, College of Liberal Arts; 2008 Human Rights Program Internship Stipend

Xingxiang Chen: 2009 University of Minnesota Graduate School Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship; 2008 Department of Sociology Martindale Award; 2004 MacArthur Predissertation Fieldwork Research Grant

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

Paul Croll: 2008 Department of Sociology American Mosaic Project Dissertation Fellowship

Eric Dahlin: 2008 Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Shannon Golden: 2009 Institute for Global Studies Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) 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; 2008 Department of Sociology Anna Welsch Bright Memorial Award; 2008 University of Minnesota Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Travel Grant

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

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

Hollie Nyseth: 2009 Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship

Tim Ortyl: GLBT Studies Award for Excellence in Creativity and Scholarship (Steven J. Schochet Endowment), Best Public Policy Paper

Ana Prata Pereira: 2005 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 2002 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant

James Saliba: 2008, 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)

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: Meier, Ann and Gina Allen. 2009. "Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." The Sociological Quarterly 50(2).

Arturo Baiocchi: MacMillan, Ross and Arturo Baiocchi. 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: Busse, Erika. 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: Knoke, David and Xinxiang Chen. 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: Dahlin, Eric C., Erin Kelly, and Phyllis Moen. 2008. "Is Work the New Neighborhood? Social Ties in the Workplace, Family, and Neighborhood." The Sociological Quarterly 49:719-736.

Andrew Halpern-Manners: Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, and Jennie E. Brand. Forthcoming. "Dynamic Measures of Primary and Secondary School Characteristics: implications for School Effects Research." Social Science Research.

Elaine Hernandez: Moen, Phyllis and Elaine M. Hernandez. 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: Phyllis Moen, Erin Kelly, and Reiping Huang. 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: Boyle, Elizabeth and Minzee Kim. Forthcoming. "International Human Rights, Neoliberal Economic Reforms, and Child Well-Being." Law and Society Review.

Wesley Longhofer: Longhofer, Wesley and Michael Katovich. Forthcoming. "Mystification of Rock." In Studies in Symbolic Interaction, edited by N. Denzin. JAI Press.

Nicole MartinRogers: MartinRogers, Nicole, Ela Rausch, and Paul 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: Meier Ann, Kathleen Hull and Timothy Ortyl. Forthcoming. "Young Adult Relationship Values at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality." Journal of Marriage & Family.

Sadie Pendaz: Pendaz, Sadie. 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: Schaefer, Shelly and Chris Uggen. Forthcoming. "Juvenile Delinquency and Desistance." In Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by A. Furlong. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge Press. Donna Spencer: Kelly, E., Eric Dahlin, Donna Spencer, 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: Tranby, Eric P. and Douglas 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: Vuolo, Micheal and Candace 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: Winchester, Daniel. 2008. "Embodying the Faith: Religious Practice and the Making of a Muslim Moral Habitus." Social Forces 86(4):1753-1780.

Jesse Wozniak: Wozniak, Jesse and Chris Uggen. Forthcoming. "Real Men Use Nonlethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry." Feminist Criminology.

Xi Zhu: Zhu, Xi and David Knoke. Forthcoming. "Community Philanthropy." In The International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, edited by H. Anheier and S. Toepler. New York: Springer.