Department News
Be sure to read Professor Lawrence Stacey’s new Social Currents article
Oct. 17, 2024—“An Updated Data Portrait of Heterosexuals, Gays/Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Other Sexual Minorities in the United States.”
Check out Professor Lawrence Stacey forthcoming article in Demography
Oct. 17, 2024—Professor Lawrence Stacey has a forthcoming article in Demography, “A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming Populations in the United States: A Research Note.”
Read Professor Isaac’s new publication! “How Movements (Sometimes) Move: Base-Mission, Traveling Cadre, and Spatial Extension of the Nashville Civil Rights Movement”
Sep. 30, 2024—“How Movements (Sometimes) Move: Base-Mission, Traveling Cadre, and Spatial Extension of the Nashville Civil Rights Movement,” In RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CONFLICTS, AND CHANGE (2024), by Larry W. Isaac, Daniel B. Cornfield, & Dennis C. Dickerson.
Larry Isaac quoted in Vox: The real impact of the Teamsters’ non-endorsement
Sep. 23, 2024—Here is what Professor Isaac had to say in Vox’s article.
Read Dan Cornfield’s new publication featured in “Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts”
Sep. 20, 2024—Dan Cornfield and his co-authors Chancey Herbolsheimer and Savannah Bastian published “In Pursuit of Cultural Equity: DEI Grantmaking Practices of U.S. Local Arts Agencies in Community Context” in a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist on “Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts.”
Read Prof Holly McCammon’s most recent article “The Narrow Confines of Institutional Activism”
Jul. 31, 2024—Holly McCammon and collaborators, Amanda Konet and Sarah Torrence, have published the lead article for the month of June in Mobilization, “The Narrow Confines of Institutional Activism.”
Check out Prof. Rachel Donnelly’s new journal article in Social Forces!
Jul. 31, 2024— Click the link to read Professor Donnelly’s journal article. “Job Insecurity as a Predictor of Gray Divorce: A Gendered Dyadic Analysis.”
Congratulations to our former graduate student Dr. Philip J. Pettis!
Jun. 11, 2024—Dr. Philip J. Pettis is a former graduate student of ours. PJ currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University (MSU). He successfully defended his dissertation in spring 2023. After being honored with the Best Dissertation Award from the Sociology of Mental Health Section of the American Sociological...
Prof. Lijun Song is the new Chair-Elect of the ASA Section on Medical Sociology
May. 30, 2024—Congratulations! Professor Lijun Song has been elected as the Chair-Elect of the American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology!
2024 Spring Award Graduate Recipients
May. 15, 2024—Sociology Grad Student Paper Awards Zhe Zhang 1st Place Paper Award: Table for One: “Does Being Single and Living Alone Protect or Hurt Health?” Rachel Underwood 2nd Place Paper Award: “The Process and Significance of Identity Reclamation Among Sheltered Women Experiencing Homelessness”