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Professor Patrick Greiner named Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Aug. 23, 2022—Assistant Professor Patrick Greiner has been named C. Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Grand Challenges: Climate and Society for a term running from 2022-2024. The Dean’s Faculty Fellows Program launched in 2018 to support tenure-track faculty in their research, scholarship, and creative expression during their probationary period. Fellowship includes the opportunity for research funds and...
Meet Graduate Student Philip J. Pettis
Aug. 23, 2022—Doctoral candidate Philip Pettis’s research examines how sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, gender, age, and SES intersect to shape social, economic, and health inequalities. Under the tutelage of Dr. Lijun Song, Philip learned to apply a diverse set of theoretical frameworks including race/ethnicity studies, sexualities studies, medical sociology, and social psychology. He matches his theoretical diversity with...
Professor Larry Isaac published “Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes”
Jul. 28, 2022—Larry Isaac along with past Vanderbilt PhDs, Jonathan Coley (Oklahoma State University), Quan Mai (Rutgers University), and Anna Jacobs (Independent Scholar) published “Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes.” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (2022).
Dan Cornfield, Chancey Herbolsheimer, and Savannah Bastian Present at Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts Conference
Jun. 9, 2022—Dan Cornfield, Chancey Herbolsheimer, and Savannah Bastian presented their invited paper, “In Pursuit of Cultural Equity: DEI Grantmaking Practices of U.S. Local Arts Agencies in Community Context,” at an international conference on “Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts.” The conference was sponsored by the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill...
Prof. Dan Cornfield is quoted by KUT Austin NPR
May. 4, 2022—May. 4, 2022—Prof. Dan Cornfield is quoted by KUT Austin NPR discussing Austin Starbucks workers’ efforts to unionize. Read and listen here.
Grad Student Hannah Regan published in Sexualities
Dec. 6, 2021—Regan, Hannah. 2021. “Fields, features, and filters: how dating applications construct sexual fields and romantic and erotic capital.” Sexualities OnlineFirst. https://journals-sagepub-com.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/doi/full/10.1177/13634607211056878 Young adults have gone from consulting matchmakers to app-makers, as they seek ways to meet sexual and romantic partners. Each dating application is constructed in a distinctive manner, creating unique “sexual fields” on each platform. In...