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NewsDepartment News 2007New Faculty: The department welcome two new assistant professors in the Fall. Claudio Benzecry , a PhD from NYU, is interested in social theory and the sociology of culture. Guillermo Rebollo -Gil , who received his PhD from the University of Florida in 2005, has a joint appointment with the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute. He is interested in Latino/Latina studies, Whiteness studies, and the sociology of culture. Also, Manisha Desai , the new Director of the Women's Studies Program, have an appointment as Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology. New PhDs: Several graduate students have completed or will soon complete their PhD degrees: Casey Borch , Andy Fullerton , Bill Armaline , and Debrashmi Mitra . All have accepted tenure track positions: Casey at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Andy at Oklahoma State , Bill at San Jose State , and Debrashmi at Delta State . Awards : Ralph McNeal was selected as an Institue for Teaching and Learning Teaching Fellow, one of only two from across the whole university. Angie Beeman won the Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Scholarship from the Society for the Study of Social Problems . Medora Barnes and Jungyun Gill each won $2000 dissertation fellowship from UConn . Tim Stablein received the department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, and Wes Younts received the Faculty Mentoring Award for his work with graduate students. Maura Kelly received the department's Ron Taylor Award for her paper, "Discursive Framing of Teenage Sexuality: Virginity Loss on 'Teen Drama' Television Programs." Mary Burke received the Dunphy Award, which is given to graduate student with exceptional academic credentials and an interest in American society, history, or politics. Sociology majors Bridget Baldana , Lewis Berry, Christine Flannery, Bronwyn Hamil l , and Tara Kurland and graduate student Bill Armaline were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and faculty member Bandana Purkayastha was selected as an honorary member. Graduate student Katie Acosta won the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center Scholarship Award for commitment to Latino issues through leadership and service. Medora Barnes and Jungyun Gill received dissertation fellowships from the Graduate School . Other Accomplishments : Nancy Naples will serve as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2007-8. Bandana Purkayastha continues as Deputy Editor of Gender & Society . Junior Alyssa Moss is featured on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences website for her volunteer work in Africa . Research : Mary Fischer received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for "Statistical Study of Emerging New Immigration Destinations." Bob Broadhead continues under his Independent Scientist Award (K02) from the NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse. 2006-7 Publications by department faculty and students include:Beeman, Angie, and Anjana Narayan. Forthcoming. "If You're White, You're All Right': The Reproduction of Racial Hierarchies in U.S. and Indian Film" in Covert Racism, edited by Rodney Coates. Beeman, Angie K. 2007. "Emotional Segregation: A Content Analysis of Institutional Racism in US Films, 1980-2001." Ethnic and Racial Studies 30: 687-712. Beeman, Angie. 2006. "Women's Movement of the United States." Pp. 940-954 in Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present, edited by James V. Defronzo. Santa Barbera, CA: ABC-CLIO. Bernstein, Mary . 2006. "The Marriage Contract." Pp. 330-336 in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews, edited by Steven Seidman , Nancy Fischer, and Chet Meeks. New York : Routledge. Bernstein, Mary . Forthcoming. "The Analytic Dimensions of Identity." In Identity Work, edited by Jo Reger , Rachel Einwohner , and Daniel Myers. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Cheng, Simon and Brian Powell. 2007. "Under And Beyond Constraints: Resource Allocation To Young Children From Biracial Families." American Journal of Sociology 112: 1044-1094. Cheng, Simon and J. Scott Long. 2007. "Testing for IIA in the Multinomial Logit Model." Sociological Methods & Research 35(4): 583-600. Fischer, Mary J. 2007. "Settling into Campus Life: Differences by Race/Ethnicity in College Involvement and Outcomes." Journal of Higher Education 78(2): 125-161. Fischer, Mary J. and Douglas S. Massey. 2007. "The Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education." Social Science Research 38:531-549. Fischer, Mary J. , and Marta Tienda 2006. "Redrawing Spatial Color Lines: Hispanic Metropolitan Dispersion, Segregation and Economic Opportunity", pp. 100-137 in Hispanics and the Future of America , National Academies Press. Josef Gugler . "Cinema of Revolution" pages 139-153 in Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present, edited by James V. Defronzo , Santa Barbara / Denver / Oxford : ABC-CLIO, 2006. Hamilton, Laura, Simon Cheng , and Brian Powell. 2007. "Adoptive Parents, Adaptive Parents: Evaluating the Importance of Biological Ties for Parental Investment." American Sociological Review 72: 95-116. Leavy , Patricia, and Lauren Sardi Ross (2006). "The Matrix of Eating Disorder Vulnerability: Oral History and the Link between Personal and Social Problems. The Oral History Review 33(1): 65-8. Leavy , Patricia, Gnong , Andrea, and Lauren Sardi Ross . "Femininity and Body Image Issues Among College-Age Women." The Qualitative Report. Massey, Douglas S. and Mary J. Fischer . 2006. "The Long Term Consequences of Segregation: Minority Performance at Selective Academic Institutions." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 29: 1-26. Volscho, Thomas W. 2008. "Racial Formation Theory". In Encyclopedia of Social Problems, edited by Vincent N. Parrillo. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Volscho, Thomas W. 2008. "Gini Coefficient". In Encyclopedia of Social Problems, edited by Vincent N. Parrillo. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Volscho , Thomas W. 2007. "Unions, Government Employment, and the Political Economy of Income Distribution in Metropolitan Areas," Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: 1-12.
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