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Sociology Graduation Party
May. 14, 2025—Congratulations to all the 2025 grads and award recipients!
Savannah Bastian won the A&S award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant
May. 8, 2025—Savannah Bastian won the A&S award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant. Congrats Savannah!
Huge Congratulations to Alyssa Davis and Adam Schoenbachler!
May. 8, 2025—Sociology graduate students Alyssa Davis and Adam Schoenbachler have each been awarded Vanderbilt Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Awards.
Check out Prof. Zdravka Tzankova’s new piece in The Conservsation that points to a ray of private environmental governance hope amid the gathering public policy storm
Apr. 15, 2025—The piece that points to a ray of private environmental governance hope amid the gathering public policy storm. Read more here: “Companies will still face pressure to manage for climate change, even as government rolls back US climate policy.”
Check out Prof. Zdravka Tzankova’s recent article in The Tennessean!
Apr. 9, 2025— It highlights the opportunities to mobilize carbon offsets and the voluntary carbon market as a tool for funding energy efficiency upgrades in low-income housing (in TN and beyond)! Read more!
Prof. Alexandre Frenette joins the Editorial Board of Poetics
Mar. 21, 2025—Prof. Alexandre Frenette joins the Editorial Board of Poetics, the leading sociological journal specializing in research on culture, arts, and the media.
Locally Led Adaptation in Bangladesh: Transformation or Normalized Disruption?
Mar. 20, 2025—Locally Led Adaptation in Bangladesh: Transformation or Normalized Disruption? Monday, April 7, 2025 12:15-1:45 200 Center Classroom Danielle Falzon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers University – New Brunswick Efforts to adapt society to the impacts of climate change across the Global South are failing. In Bangladesh, commonly known as one of the most...
Professors Rachel Donnelly, Lijun Song, and Holly McCammon met with UK and US health policy leaders
Mar. 7, 2025—Professors Rachel Donnelly, Lijun Song, and Holly McCammon met with UK and US health policy leaders to discuss health disparities and interventions in the US and UK. Visiting UK and US experts were: Ade Adeyemi HonFFPH MBE, Head of Africa, Middle East and Asia Bilateral Engagement, Sam Rodger, Assistant Director of Policy and Strategy, NHS Race...
Dr. Christie-Mizell awarded the Diamond Award for Lifetime Achievement in Higher Education Leadership, Philanthropy, Humanitarianism, Civic & Community Engagement
Mar. 3, 2025—Congratulations Dr. Christie-Mizell! Vice Provost and Professor Sociology Christie-Mizell received the 2025 Diamond Award Diamond Award for Lifetime Achievement in Higher Education Leadership, Philanthropy, Humanitarianism, Civic & Community Engagement.
Sociology doctoral student Savannah C. Bastian and collaborators publish research on sexual pleasure and aging in Sociological Forum!
Feb. 28, 2025—Check out her publication! Heterosexual women’s pleasure trajectories: How aging helps undo gendered sexual scripts