Research News
Prof 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 is also featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education .
May 13th, 2008Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King win ASA Article Award
Prof. Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King received the American Sociological Association Section on Culture Article Award for "Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States," published in the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 579-616. They were awarded the Law and Society Association's article award for the same article in 2006. Congratulations, Joachim and Ryan!!
October 16th, 2007Prof 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, 2007AJS Article by Professor Kelly and Co-Author
In the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Sociology, see the latest published research from Erin Kelly and Frank Dobbin (Harvard). The article "How to Stop Harassment: Professional Construction of Legal Compliance in Organizations" examines how two professions, attorneys and personnel managers, constructed the threat of sexual harassment and the appropriate organizational response to it during the 1980s and 1990s when case law and social norms were changing rapidly. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan
March 2nd, 2007
Foundation.ASR Article by Professors Edgell, Gerteis and Hartmann
In the American Sociological Review, see the latest published research from the American Mosaic Project, funded by the Edelstein Family Foundation: "Atheists As 'Other': Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership" in American Society by Professors Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann - Volume 71, Number 2 * April 2006.
July 20th, 2006Professor Hull Receives Research Funding Award
Professor Kathy Hull received funding from the Schochet GLBT Research Award program. This award, made possible by an endowment provided by Stephen J. Schochet with additional funding provided by the College of Liberal Arts and the Office for Multicultural and Academic Affairs, encourages and supports research related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, particularly in a North American context.
July 8th, 2006Katja Guenther Wins Best Dissertation Award
Katja Guenther has received the Graduate School Best Dissertation Award for the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Education. Her dissertation title is "The New Truemmerfrauen: Rebuilding Women's Welfare in Eastern Germany since German Unification." Selection is based on the originality and importance of the research, and the potential for the student to make an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Katja will begin her tenure-track appointment at California State University, Fullerton in Fall 2006.
June 8th, 2006Professor Savelsberg and Ryan King Receive Article Award
Prof. Joachim Savelsberg and alumni Ryan D. King are the recipients of the Law and Society Association's 2006 Article Award for "Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States." The article was published in 2005 in the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 579-616.
June 8th, 2006Professor Moen Wins Book Award
The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream, by Phyllis Moen and Patricia Roehling, has won an award from the Professional and Scholarly Publication (PSP) section of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Their book was selected by the PSP as the best publication in sociology in 2005.
June 8th, 2006ASR Article by Prof Schofer
The World-Wide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century by Evan Schofer and John W. Meyer - Volume 70, Number 6 * December 2005.
June 5th, 2006ASR Article by Prof Uggen and Alum Prof Blackstone
Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power by Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone Volume 69, Number 1 * February 2004.
June 4th, 2006