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Brad Wilcoxbrad wilcox has a new essay, "The Evolution of Divorce," in the inaugural issue of the new journal, National Affairs. Wilcox's essay reports that divorce rates are dropping for the wealthy and the highly educated, but rising steadily among the poor and the working class. How did we end up with a class-based divorce divide? And what can be done to strengthen marriage in America? View the essay here.
View more information on Prof. Wilcox's research.

PughALLISON PUGH's new book from the University of California Press, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture, seeks to make sense of explosive spending on children in recent decades.
Professor Pugh has been elected as a Council Member for the ASA Children and Youth Section for the 2008-2009 term.
View more information on Professor Pugh's research about families as consumers.

Jeffrey Olick's book on memory studies and social structures, The Politics of Regret, is featured in a review essay by Patrick Hutton in the latest issue of History and Theory. View review here.
View more information on Professor Olick's research.

Josipa Roksa has been awarded the University Teaching Fellowship. The UTF Program aims to help UVA's most intellectually sound and successful junior faculty members develop into exceptionally fine teachers. Thus the selection committee—comprised of award-winning faculty—seeks to choose each year junior faculty members who show promise of becoming both eminent researchers and inspiring teachers. Go to the UTF website for more info on the program. View the UVA Today article.

Thomas Guterbock has been named president-elect of the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations. He is currently Director of the Center for Survey Research. See the announcement in UVA Today.

Professors Krishan Kumar & Katya Makarova collaborated on an article in Sociological Theory where they discuss how the nature of private home life connects socially to the public sphere and why private experiences are increasingly showing up in the pubic domain. View their article, "The Portable Home: The Domestication of Public Space", from December 2008.

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Graduate Students in the News

Amalgam
Interdisciplinary Academic Journal at UVA
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Sociology Graduate Students contributing:
Tatiana Omeltchenko, Carey Sargent, Ben Snyder;
as well as recent Ph.D. graduates Matthew Hughey and Justin Snyder.

Tristan S. Bridges

  • "'Men Just Weren't Made to Do This': Performances of Drag at 'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes' Marches." Gender and Society, forthcoming.
  • "Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders." Body & Society, Sage Publications, 2009, Vol. 15: 83-107.

Jeffrey Dill

  • "Preparing for Public Life: School Sector and the Educational Context of Lasting Citizen-Formation" Social Forces (March 2009).

Tony Lin

has been quoted in The Atlantic. In an article from the December 2009 issue, Lin's research is mentioned as part of an article discussing the role of religion in the economic atmosphere.

Deborah Rexrode

has been appointed as Associate Conference Operations Chair for AAPOR (the American Association for Public Opinion Research). She will serve in this capacity for a couple of years and then is expected to Chair the Conference Operations Committee.

Carey Sargent

  • "Playing, Shopping, and Working as Rock Musicians: Masculinities in "De-Skilled" and "Re-Skilled" Organizations." Gender and Society, October 2009; vol. 23: pp. 665 - 687.

Jennifer Silva

Congratulations to Jen - she received the UVa GSAS Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2009-2010!

Ben Snyder

Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

has been elected to the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board for a two year term.

Tara Tober

Haiming Yan

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