Department News
Prof. Larry Isaac published “Pitting the Working-Class Against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement.”
Aug. 23, 2022—Larry Isaac (Vanderbilt), Rachel McKane (post-doc at Brown University), and Anna Jacobs (Independent Scholar) published “Pitting the Working-Class Against Itself: Solidarity, Strikebreaking, and Strike Outcomes in the Early US Labor Movement.” SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY (2022).
Professor Larry Isaac published “Repressing Worker Dissent: Lethal Violence against Strikers in the Early American Labor Movement”
Aug. 23, 2022—Paul Lipold and Larry Isaac published “Repressing Worker Dissent: Lethal Violence against Strikers in the Early American Labor Movement.” LABOR HISTORY (2022).
Professor Bianca Manago named Dean’s Faculty Fellow
Aug. 23, 2022—Assistant Professor Bianca Manago has been named a Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Sociology 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. The fellowship includes the opportunity for research funds and course reductions to provide...
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...
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).
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...