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Faculty News
Goldman Wins CLA Teaching Award
Michael Goldman received one of two Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards for 2012-13. This award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts. He will be recognized at a special event in 2013-14.
May 23rd, 2013Two Top Journals Coming to Minnesota!
Joachim Savelsberg and Timothy Johnson (Political Science) have accepted coeditorship of Law & Society Review (LS&R). This is the journal of the Law & Society Association and regarded by socio-legal scholars worldwide as a leading publication for work bearing on the relationship between society and the legal process.
John "Rob" Warren will be the editor of Sociology of Education (SOE), a journal of the American Sociological Association. This is the top ranked publication in education research. They publish research that examines how social institutions and individuals' experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development.
February 27th, 2013Savelsberg Wins Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award
Joachim Savelsberg was honored with the 2012 Freda Adler Distinguished Scholar Award by the American Society of Criminology's International Division. The award recognizes "an international scholar who has made a significant contribution to international criminology, including international criminal justice, comparative, and transnational crime and justice research."
January 3rd, 2013Rhetoric that Hurts: Babies Exposed to Drugs in Utero
Enid Logan was recently quoted in a Huffington Post article discussing race, medicine, science, and the state. The article focused on the contrasting societal responses to maternal use of prescription drugs and crack-cocaine during pregnancy.
September 11th, 2012Savelsberg & King Win 2012 Outstanding Book Award
American Memories: Atrocities and the Law, authored by Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King (Ph.D. 2005), and published in 2011 by the Russell Sage Foundation, is the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award of the Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.
September 11th, 2012Female Supervisors More Susceptible to Workplace Harassment
Heather McLaughlin, Chris Uggen, and Amy Blackstone's article "Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power" in American Sociological Review is available online, along with a podcast interview with Heather regarding her research.
August 8th, 2012Aminzade Wins CLA Teaching Award
Ron Aminzade received one of three Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Awards for 2011-12. This award recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers of graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts. He will be recognized at a special event in 2012-13.
July 26th, 2012Proposed gay marriage amendment forces Somali immigrants to confront taboo
Cawo Abdi is featured in an article on PRI Public Radio International stating that strong faith is likely to bring many from the local Somali community to vote in support of the MN same-sex marriage ban.
July 26th, 2012Is the Family Dinner Overrated?
Ann Meier and Kelly Musick provide insights in an article in the New York Times Sunday Review suggesting that the benefits of family dinners are not as strong or as lasting as some claim them to be. Their research was recently published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
July 2nd, 2012Coordinating Retirement with Your Spouse
Phyllis Moen is featured in a US News and World Report article that outlines several helpful tips when negotiating retirement with your spouse.
June 28th, 2012Page Wins Herbert Jacob Book Prize
Josh Page has been recognized with the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for his book, The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California. The prize is given by the Law and Society Association and is intended to recognize new, outstanding work in law and society scholarship.
June 12th, 2012Rise in Nondenominational Churches
Penny Edgell joined in a discussion on Minnesota Public Radio on why more Americans are attending nondenominational churches.
May 10th, 2012Boomer Moms and Work Life Balance
Phyllis Moen was featured in Crain's Chicago Business regarding boomer moms who find themselves in a new phase of life and work.
May 10th, 2012Michael Goldman Awarded Global Spotlight Grant
The Global Programs and Strategy Alliance awarded Michael Goldman a Global Spotlight Grant (along with three colleagues in Geography) to study urbanism across Jakarta and Bangalore.
May 10th, 2012Talk to Me, Not to My Daughter
Phyllis Moen is featured in a New York Times article regarding the indignity suffered by the elderly when they are ignored in favor of their younger companions.
May 10th, 2012Aminzade Honored for Civic Engagement
Ron Aminzade is a recipient of the 2012 Presidents' Civic Engagement Steward Award by Minnesota Campus Compact. This award recognizes his outstanding contributions and commitment to collaborative action that produces positive change in the world. He was honored on June 5th.
May 10th, 2012Parents Spread Safety Net for Kids
Teresa Swartz found that many Baby Boomer parents are giving money so that their kids' transitions from adolescence to adulthood isn't more difficult than it has to be during this tough economy. She was featured in USA Today.
May 10th, 2012Discourses on Darfur
Joachim Savelsberg was one of three co-organizers of an international meeting on Discourses on Darfur: Law, Science, Media. International Criminal Court lawyers, scholars and activists, diplomats from the Clinton and Bush administrations and leading journalists were part of the invitation-only group. Hollie Nyseth Brehm was the sole graduate student to attend.
May 8th, 2012Warren Wins COGS Award
Rob Warren received the annual Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Outstanding Faculty Award. Nominated by Andy Halpern-Manners, Liying Luo and jim saliba who said that he "... offers a unique combination of intellectual stimulation, professional guidance, and moral support" and that he "serves as a template for what we hope to become as scholars and mentors."
April 26th, 2012Higher Education in Prisons
Josh Page and undergraduate teaching assistant Robert Stewart recently spoke about higher education in prisons on Minnesota Public Radio's The Daily Circuit. Listen to the show.
March 19th, 2012Jeylan Mortimer's ASA Cooley-Mead Award
Social Psychology Quarterly has now released Michael Shanahan's introductory remarks and an expanded version of Professor Mortimer's 2011 Cooley-Mead Award acceptance address. This award is the highest honor conferred by the ASA's Social Psychology section for long-term contributions to the field.
March 5th, 2012Many Resist Census Race Labels
Carolyn Liebler was recently quoted by the Associated Press regarding the 2010 Census racial categories where at least 1 in 14 went beyond the standard labels and wrote how they self identity.
February 2nd, 2012Flexible Work Shows Promising Results
Phyllis Moen and Erin Kelly provide insights on their recent papers on flexible work and well-being and how they are changing the business world in an interview with Business@the U of M.
January 23rd, 2012Flexible Workplaces Promote Better Health
Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen found that employees who were allowed to routinely change when and where they worked based on their individual needs and job responsibilities, showed improved health and well-being. Their findings are published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
December 5th, 2011Uggen Receives Equal Justice Award
Chris Uggen was honored by the Council on Crime and Justice with their 2011 Equal Justice Award recognizing those who provide exemplary leadership in helping to create safer, stronger, and more just communities. He was selected for ensuring that injustices in society remain at the forefront of public thought and discourse until they are resolved, particularly through his research and advocacy work in offender reentry and felon disenfranchisement.
December 1st, 2011Books Recently Released
Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen have edited the 2nd edition of The Contexts Reader containing more than 60 of the best articles from the award-winning Contexts Magazine. New to this edition are articles from the magazine while it was edited at the University of Minnesota.
In At this Defining Moment, Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by innovative theoretical insights to explore how Barack Obama's presidential candidacy both reflected and shaped the dynamics of race in the United States.
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined and how the concept of "public charge" or "public burden" continue to influence our conception of who can legitimately access public programs. She shows the consequences for the immigrant community and makes important policy suggestions for reforming our immigration system.
In The Slums of Aspen, Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Pellow, use a wide range of sources including extensive interviews with town officers, school teachers, immigration-control officials, social-service providers and many Latino immigrant workers and their families, to report on the paradox of social contempt for and economic dependence on immigrant labor, as they reveal its root causes and impacts. Some of the press they have received include an opinion piece in the Denver Post.
October 18th, 2011
In American Memories, Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King rigorously examine how the United States remembers its own and others' atrocities and how institutional responses to such crimes, including trials and tribunals, may help shape memories and perhaps impede future violence.Moen Debunking Myths about Retirement
Phyllis Moen will present, What's Next?: Debunking the Myths about Retirement in America, as a HEADLINERS event on October 6th at 7:00 pm at the Continuing Education and Conference Center. HEADLINERS events spotlight University and community experts with a forum to share their insider knowledge of timely topics in the news.
September 19th, 2011Edgell Keynote at Sociologists of Minnesota Annual Conference
The theme of this year's SOM conference is Religious Changes in a Volatile World. Penny Edgell will provide the keynote address, "The Pig is not the Problem: New Approaches in the Study of Religion in Society" on Thursday, October 13th at 7:15 pm at the Hindu Temple of Minnesota. Click for complete conference schedule or to register.
September 19th, 2011Factors That Keep Young Adults Employed
According to Professors Jeylan Mortimer and Michael Vuolo, young workers with certain characteristics may weather turbulent times better. Their paper, presented at the ASA Annual Meetings, has garnered national attention in outlets such as the Huffington Post, US News, Fortune, and locally, KSTP to name a few.
September 14th, 2011Crime Victims United of California: A powerful voice in state politics
Click here to read Professor Josh Page's recent LA Times Op-Ed about the alliance between the California prison guards' union and the politically dominant victims group it created.
June 29th, 2011Gowan Wins Douglas Prize
Teresa Gowan's recent book, Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, is the co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book awarded by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
June 29th, 2011Judgments at Work
Recent research by Professors Jeylan Mortimer and Monica Johnson (Washington State University), based on the Youth Development Study data archive, will be featured in the June 2011 issue of Social Forces. Their article, "Origins and Outcomes of Judgments about Work," reveals the continuing importance of work values for occupational outcomes despite turbulence in the "new economy" and change in the contemporary transition to adulthood.
June 1st, 2011Sex in School
Professors Eric Grodsky and Bill McCarthy's (UC Davis) recently published article in Social Problems, contradicts claims some abstinence-only curricula make regarding the link between adolescent sex and negative outcomes. They found that sexual intercourse in romantic relationships will have limited consequences for education, whereas the negative effects associated with sex in other relationships will be pronounced.
June 1st, 2011Schurman Wins Caldwell Prize
Rachel Schurman's recent book, Fighting for the Future of Food, is the winner of the 2011 Lynton Caldwell Prize awarded by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy section of the American Political Science Association. This award honors the best book in environmental politics and policy published in the past 3 years!
June 1st, 2011Benefits of Workplace Flexibility
Professors Erin Kelly, Phyllis Moen & Eric Tranby's (University of Delaware) research, "Changing Workplaces to Reduce Work-Family Conflict," is featured in the April issue of American Sociological Review. This research finds that a flexible work environment positively affects work and family. Click here to watch a video and read a news release. Also featured on MPR.
April 13th, 2011Community Colleges as a Safety Net
Professor Eric Grodsky and Demetra Kalogrides' (Stanford University) research on the causes and consequences of reverse transfer (students who begin at a four-year institution but transfer to a community college prior to earning a degree) was recently published in Social Forces.
April 6th, 2011Edgell and Hull Awarded NSF Grant
Professors Penny Edgell & Kathleen Hull received NSF funding to study how ordinary citizens respond to high-profile social controversies. Their grant, "The Role of Cognition in the Development of Social Fragmentation, Commonalities, and Consensus," funds national data collection using focus groups of ordinary citizens discussing vignettes on faith-based prison programs, parental refusal of medical treatment due to religious belief, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis.
March 22nd, 2011Parental Support in Transition to Adulthood
Professors Teresa Swartz and Jeylan Mortimer & graduate students, Minzee Kim, Mayumi Uno and Kirsten O'Brien's research is featured in the April issue of Journal of Marriage and Family. In their article, Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood, they examined the conditions that lead to parental giving and if this aid promotes the progress to adulthood. Featured in Time.com and USA Today.com.
March 16th, 2011Broadbent Featured in Science Now
Jeff Broadbent's research on International Climate Change is featured in the online journal Science Now. He recently moderated and participated in a panel discussion with several of his COMPON collaborators at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
March 11th, 2011Goldman Featured in India's National Newspaper
March 2nd, 2011
Michael Goldman was recently featured in The Hindu, India's national newspaper, regarding the impact of the information technology sector on Bangalore. He travels to India often studying how major projects in the city are financed, the government mandates surrounding them, and how various agencies are facilitating these projects. Books Recently Released
Josh Page takes our understanding of mass incarceration to a new level in, The Toughest Beat. In this first systematic study of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, he explains the origins and durability of California's correctional crisis.This book release was profiled in UMNews and more recently in the California Progress Report. 
Jeff Broadbent and Vicky Brockman (alumna 1998), are editors of an international volume, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region. This book provides an array of important case studies of social movements in East Asia.
February 9th, 2011
Joel Samaha's new editions of his widely acclaimed textbooks, Criminal Procedure (8th) and Criminal Law (10th) continue to showcase his case study approach to teaching. They are a testament to the success of this award winning professor! Moen, Kelly, & Hill Research in Social Problems
Professors Phyllis Moen & Erin Kelly (with graduate student Rachelle Hill) research, "Does Enhancing Work-Time Control and Flexibility Reduce Turnover? A Naturally Occurring Experiment," is featured in the February issue of Social Problems. This research investigates the turnover effects of an organizational innovation (ROWE--Results Only Work Environment) aimed at moving away from standard time practices to focus on results rather than time spent at work.
February 8th, 2011Carl Malmquist Wins APA Isaac Ray Award
Professor Carl Malmquist will receive the 2011 Isaac Ray Award at the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association. This annual award acknowledges outstanding accomplishments in psychiatry and jurisprudence.
January 28th, 2011Massoglia and Uggen Research in AJS
Professor Chris Uggen's research with Mike Massoglia (2005 Ph.D), "Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood," is featured in the September issue of the American Journal of Sociology. Their analysis of Professor Jeylan Mortimer's Youth Development Study shows how arrest and crime block the passage to adult status -- and how desisting from delinquency is part of the package of role behaviors defining adulthood.
December 10th, 2010Child Abuse cases dropping in MN
Associate Professor Ross Macmillan was featured recently in a story on MN Public Radio. "Crime is about as low as it's been in the last 50 or 60 years ... " Ross is studying how the child abuse numbers fit within the larger pattern of the drop in violent crime in Hennepin County.
November 24th, 2010Somalis in Twin Cities Shaken by Charges of Sex Trafficking
Assistant Prof. Cawo Abdi was recently featured in an article in the New York Times about a federal indictment that charged 29 Somalis and Somali-Americans with various crimes including drawing young girls into prostitution over the last decade.
November 24th, 2010A Leader in the College
Professor Chris Uggen was recently featured in the University MN Brief highlighting his research, writing, service, and leadership. He is co-editor of Contexts with Doug Hartmann and was co-chair/author of the just released CLA 2015 Final Report. Chris is featured in local press coverage of the report in the Star Tribune and on MPR.
November 18th, 2010Google Street View Controversy in Germany
Prof. Joachim Savelsberg was recently featured in an interview with NPR's On the Media about Germans blurring out their properties. Street View now allows users to get a sidewalk perspective of 32 countries. Opposition to the service seems to be stiffest in Germany, where Google has been in turbulent negotiations with privacy regulators.
October 31st, 2010Women Choosing Not To Have Children
Associate Professors Ross Macmillan and Ann Meier were featured recently in an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "More than ever before, women are deciding to forgo childbearing in favor of other life-fulfilling experiences."
Both professors study Family & the Life Course, but more specifically, Macmillan is studying global fertility trends and Meier delayed childbearing.
October 7th, 2010Books Recently Released
In Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders, Teresa Gowan vividly depicts the lives of homeless men in San Francisco and analyzes the influence of the homelessness industry on the streets, in the shelters, and on public policy.
Eric Grodsky and Michal Kurlaender are the editors of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education: The Past and Future of California's Proposition 209. This book provides a crucial assessment of one of the most important issues facing higher education.
In Classic and Contemporary Perspectives in Social Psychology, Sharon Preves and Jeylan Mortimer's reader allows students to experience the foundational work of influential sociologists and psychologists through the lens of cutting-edge issues.
In Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities, Joachim Savelsberg provides a much-needed criminological insight to the subject, exploring explanations of and responses to human rights abuses.
Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro's Fighting for the Future of Food details how the anti-biotech movement managed to alter public perceptions about genetically modified organisms in the world food supply.
August 25th, 2010From Minneapolis to Mogadishu
Assistant Prof. Cawo Abdi was recently featured in an interview on Al Jazeera English TV about Somali youth leaving America to join radical groups in Somalia.
August 6th, 2010Teresa Gowan Wins CLA Teaching Award
Assistant Prof. Teresa Gowan received one of four CLA Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award for 2009-10. Teresa accepted this award during the December 2010 commencement ceremony.
June 10th, 2010Cawo Abdi awarded OIP grant
The Office of International Programs awarded Assistant Professor Cawo (Awa) Abdi a Global Spotlight Grant for research related to Africa and Water in the World. This funding is for her project: " Divergent Migrations: Somali Experience in South Africa, America, and the United Arab Emirates." Her study pursues core theoretical questions that further our understanding of migration, globalization, and identity formations in different regions. Congratulations, Prof. Abdi.
April 16th, 20102010 Public Sociology Award
We are proud to announce Professor Phyllis Moen as the winner of this year's Public Sociology Award. Prof. Moen was honored at the 20th Annual Sociology Research Institute on Friday, April 23rd.
March 29th, 2010Phyllis Moen & David Pellow Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship
Phyllis Moen is featured in a glowing tribute from Assistant Professor, Noelle Chesley (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) in the Spring 2010 NCFR Report, the membership magazine of the National Council on Family Relations.
David Pellow is one of twelve recipients of the first annual University of MN Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Outstanding Faculty Award! He was chosen from over 60 nominations. Congratulations also to affiliate faculty member, Joe Soss from Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
March 20th, 2010More Employers Make Room For Work-Life Balance
Professor Phyllis Moen was featured recently on National Public Radio's Morning Edition on the "work time revolution". More employers are discovering that loosening the traditionally rigid work schedule pays off. This broadcast is part one of a three part series by Jennifer Ludden, a National Correspondent who covers a range of stories on family life and social issues for all NPR News programs.
March 16th, 2010Joachim Savelsberg awarded NSF grant
The National Science Foundation awarded Joachim Savelsberg funding for his project: "Collective Representations and Memories of Atrocities after Judicial Interventions: The Case of Darfur in International Comparison." The research involves content analysis of media reports and policy statements and interviews with journalists, policy makers and consultants in the US, Canada and six European countries.
March 3rd, 2010Prof Yanjie Bian - Sorokin Lecture
Professor Yanjie Bian will present the 41st Annual Sorokin Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada - "The Increasing Significance of Guanxi in Chinese Transitional Economy". Prof. Pitirim Sorokin taught at the University of Minnesota from 1924-30, and founded the Department of Sociology, Harvard University in 1930. This spring, Prof. Bian will also conduct research and give lectures in the United Kingdom at Cambridge and Oxford, as well as several other European Institutions. Congratulations, Prof. Bian, on the Sorokin Lecture!
January 27th, 2010Prof Warren featured in NY Times
Professor Rob Warren, who studies Educational Policy and the effects of high school exit examinations, is featured in The New York Times - "As School Exit Tests Prove Tough, States Ease Standards".
January 21st, 2010Why Do We Like Celeb Failures?
Professor Doug Hartmann, an expert in Sociology of Sport and co-editor of Contexts was featured on WCCO's Good Question segment. "Someone like Tiger Woods achieves greatness, and then gets knocked down. Why are we so transfixed by the failures of celebrities?"
December 3rd, 2009Prof Savelsberg awarded Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency
Professor Joachim Savelsberg was awarded a summer 2010 collaborative residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center to work on the project "Collective Criminality and Human Rights: Violence, Memory, Responsibility." His collaborators are John Hagan (Sociology and Law, Northwestern University) and Jens Meierhenrich (Political Science, Harvard University).
September 21st, 2009Prof Pellow featured in CLA Reach Magazine
Professor David Pellow, an environmental justice expert who holds our Martindale Endowed Chair, is featured in the Margin of Excellence section of Reach magazine.
September 18th, 2009Prof Broadbent's Research in Nature.com's Nature Reports
New research by Jeff Broadbent was recently featured as a front-page story on Nature.com. This is a comparative sociological study of national responses to climate change within the international context.
August 10th, 2009Elizabeth Boyle awarded NSF grant
The National Science Foundation awarded Liz Boyle funding for her project: "The Cost of Rights or the Right Cost? The Impact of Global Economic and Human Rights Policies on Child Well-Being."
July 27th, 2009Prof Schurman's Research in July 2009 AJS
New research by Rachel Schurman and co-author William Munro finds two very different outcomes in similar 'anti-biotech' movements of the late 1990s. This research is featured in the latest American Journal of Sociology.
July 24th, 2009Jeff Broadbent's Climate Change Report released
Associate Professor Jeff Broadbent's coauthored NSF report on Sociological Perspectives on Global Climate Change from last years NSF workshop is now available. This workshop and report contribute to advancing sociological research on global climate change, and to the research capacity, tools, and infrastructure in the social sciences.
June 9th, 2009Multiracial Identities in the News
Carolyn Liebler was featured recently on a broadcast of KPCC in Los Angeles (the third largest public radio station in the US) on her research on multiracial identity and social demography. Multiracial People Fastest-Growing US Group is an additional associated press article quoting Assistant Professor Liebler.
June 9th, 2009Prof Aminzade new ASA section chair
Professor Ron Aminzade has been elected 2009-2010 Chair of the Political Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. The purpose of this ASA section is to promote the scholarly research and professional activities of those concerned with a sociological understanding of political phenomena.
June 9th, 2009Ross Macmillan - new CYFC Scholar
Associate Professor Ross Macmillan (with incoming graduate student Naomi Duke and affiliated faculty member Michael Oakes) was recently selected as one of four scholars by the University of Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC). Their project is on education-health gradients among the new era of US immigrants.
May 22nd, 2009David Ward's Alcatraz book released
In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, Professor Emeritus Ward brings to life the stories of infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948.
May 4th, 2009Contexts - 2009 Utne Award Nominee
Contexts has been nominated for an Utne Independent Press Award for its coverage of social/cultural issues in 2008.
May 4th, 20092009 Sociology Research Institute (SRI)
The 19th annual SRI conference was held April 17th. Professor Katherine Newman of Princeton University provided a thought provoking keynote address. Thank you to each of our presenters and special congratulations to all of this year's award winners.
May 1st, 2009No clear benefits to high stakes tests
MN Legislators are still referring to recent testimony given by Associate Professor Rob Warren referencing his multi-year study on state-mandated high school exit examinations. You can review his full testimony by scrolling to 55:42.
February 25th, 2009Social Forces Reshaping Retirement
Sociologist Phyllis Moen and Marc Freedman are featured on the CLA web site with a broadcast of their discussion on how to reshape retirement in ways that offer retirees a greater range of options while improving overall quality of life. Life's Obstacle Course is an additional article about Professor Moen's research.
November 26th, 2008New faculty for 2008-09
We are thrilled to welcome four outstanding scholars to our faculty. Cawo Abdi, Eric Grodsky, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David Pellow will all be joining us Fall 2008!
July 9th, 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, 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 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 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, 2007"CONTEXTS" Comes to the U of M
February 14th, 2007
"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.Edgell 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, 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.
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