Department News
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.
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
Welcome Dr. Gregg M. Olsen! A visiting Fulbright Scholar from Canada.
Feb. 6, 2025—Dr. Gregg M. Olsen, Fulbright Canada Research Chair, Vanderbilt University Dr. Gregg M. Olsen is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, where he has been based for over three decades. His research focuses on social inequality, social policy and welfare states from a comparative...
Professor Shaul Kelner won the National Jewish Book Award
Jan. 23, 2025— Congratulations Professor Shaul Kelner! His book “A Cold War Exodus” has won the National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council.
Sociology doctoral student’s paper published in the general sociology journal, SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Congrats Adam Schoenbachler!
Jan. 13, 2025—Sociology doctoral student Adam Schoenbachler’s solo-authored paper, “Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky Tonk Row,” derived from his award-winning doctoral dissertation research project, was just accepted for publication in the general sociology journal, SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Adam’s ethnographic dissertation research project on Nashville musicians and honky tonk bars was recently awarded...
Professor Lijun Song received an NIH Grant ($1.3 Million) and a Scaling Success Grant
Dec. 13, 2024—Professor Lijun Song received an R56 (high-priority, short-term) grant of $1.3 million from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, for her project titled National Study of Older Never-Married Adults (NSONMA). She also received a Scaling Success Grant ($76,321)for this project from Vanderbilt University. She is leading a multi-university research team to...