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NewsDepartment News Spring 2010New Faculty: The department welcomes a new assistant professor Elizabeth Holzer who received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a joint appointment with the UConn Human Rights Institute. New Jobs: Four of the department's recent PhDs have accepted assistant professor positions: Angie Beeman at Borough of Manhatten Community College, Maura Kelly at Portland State University, and Laura Sardi Ross at Quinnipiac University, and Natalie Peluso at Concordia College. In addition, we have two recent PhDs who have accepted postdoctoral fellowships: Gordon Gauchat at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and David Kremmelberg at SUNY-Stony Brook. Department News Spring 2009New Faculty: The department welcomes a new assistant professor. Andrew Deener received his PhD from UCLA, and is interested in urban sociology, sociology of culture, and ethnography. New Jobs: Three of the department's PhD candidates have accepted assistant professor positions: Medora Barnes at John Carroll University, Katie Acosta at Tulane University, and Tom Volscho at CUNY College of Staten Island. Awards : Arnie Dashefsky has become the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies. Nancy Naples received the 2008 Faculty Excellence Award in Research (Humanities/Social Sciences) Award at the University of Connecticut. Clint Sanders was named a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bandana Purkayastha was an invited panelist for a presentation on "Racial Health Disparities: improving data gathering procedures" organized by the Connecticut Department of Health and attended by 30 state agency representatives. Chandra Waring and Angie Beeman received graduate student scholarships to attend the Sociologists for Women in Society conference in August 08. Dina Giovanelli received the 100 Years of Women Scholarship Award from the UConn Women's Center. Gordon Gauchat and Mustafa Gurbuz were selected for the department's Outstanding Graduate Student Award, and Laren Sardi Ross was selected for the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. Gordon also received the university's Michael Hogan Graduate Summer Research Award. In the Media: The UConn Advance recently featured stories about the work of several faculty members: Mary Fischer on racial diversity on college campuses; Arnie Dashefsky on Jewish/Christian Interfaith marriages; Bob Broadhead on peer-driven HIV intervention; and Bandana Purkayastha o her new boo (co-edited with UConn PhD Anjana Narayan) Living Our Religions: Hindu and Muslum South Asian American Women Narrate Their Experiences. Claudio Benzecry's research on opera fans was the subject of a Reuters news story that has run in many outlets around the world. Emeritus Professor Nechama Tec's book Defiance. was made into a major motion picture released in January 2009. Graduate students Chandra Waring and Angie Beeman were featured in a recent article in the Huffington Post: "Black or Biracial? Who Gets to Decide?" |