Research Spotlights
Doctoral student wins LERA Best Paper Award
Jan. 11, 2023—Doctoral student wins LERA Best Paper Award Adam Schoenbachler, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, has been given a Best Paper Award by the Labor and Employment Relations Association for his paper, “Tipping Regimes: Examining organizational control of tipped labor on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Highway.” Based on his doctoral research—an ethnographic analysis of...
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...
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...
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...