Sociology News & Announcements
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.
ALLISON PUGH has just been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Work-Family Career Development Grant for her project entitled Why Care?: The Effects of Care on Caregivers. The project looks at how participating in caring labor affects the development of pro-social values in men and women.
In addition, her research was recently featured in an article from UVA's Research News . She discusses how families react to the consumer culture. Professor Pugh's forthcoming 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. View more information on Professor Pugh's research about families as consumers.
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MILTON VICKERMAN, an immigration specialist, is also a member of Guterbock's interdisciplinary team. The group will assess how the resolution affects crime, citizens' views, and government policy.
View the Washington Post article.
View the Cavalier Daily article.
ELIZABETH GORMAN and Julie Kmec (Washington State University) recently published an article in Gender & Society (vol.21: 828-856),
"We (Have to) Try Harder: Gender and Required Work Effort in Britain and the United States."
View
the news story about their research in UVA Today, Surveys of British and American Employees Conclude Women Must Work Harder.
"Bright, young" Sociology Professor Brad Wilcox appeared on NPR on January 28, 2008, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of postponing parenthood until your 30s. View the link to listen to the radio segment.
Also, see his mention in the Nov. 2, 2007 issue of Time Magazine.
View more information on Professor Wilcox's research on churchgoing men, and on teen sexuality.
The Sociology Department is sad to announce the death of
Steven L. Nock on Sunday, January 20, 2008.
Read articles in the Daily Progress and Cavalier Daily honoring Prof. Nock,
as well as a tribute from Social Science Research editor, James D. Wright.
STEVEN
NOCK directed the Marriage Matters
Project which studies covenant marriages. He offered his expertise to the Family Foundation, which formed a commission to develop policy recommendations for the Commonwealth of Virginia concerning marriage and divorce. A Washington Post article discusses his
research and views on marriage, cohabitation, and divorce.
View more information on Professor Nock and "The Boomer Century."
Inventing Tradition by Michael Hightower
As a one-time working cowboy in the American Southwest, Adjunct Sociology lecturer Michael Hightower was intrigued to find cowboy sports in his adopted state of Virginia. Blending scholarship and horsemanship, he competed in dozens of cowboy contests and collected data on a group whose members (himself included) he dubbed “Old Dominion cowboys.” Through a close reading of his fieldnotes, he identified themes that emerge from a typical day of penning, sorting, and cutting cattle. He analyzes these themes in the context of frontier history, identity formation, the Western genre of entertainment, social memory studies, and sport sociology, all in an effort to situate cowboy sports in a cultural and historical context. Dr. Hightower frames these rowdy sports as frontier relics that were appropriated and modified by turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural leaders to mitigate the disruptive effects of modernity. Cowboy sports thus fall under the rubric of invented tradition. Today, they serve as avenues of identity formation and cultural expression in ways that are both representative of and resistant to postmodernity.
ISBN 978-3-8364-3699-1
**Sociology Graduate Students in the News**
Tristan S. Bridges
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Book Review - Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, by C.J. Pascoe. Gender & Society 21 (5): 776-778. (2007)
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Book Review - Transforming Masculinities: Men, Cultures, Bodies, Power, Sex and Love, by Victor J. Seidler. The Sociological Review 55 (3): 637-641. (2007)
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Book Review - Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion, by Gary T. Barker. Journal of Men's Studies 16 (1): 118-120. (2007)
Bradley Campbell
Congratulations on his recent acceptance of an Assistant Professorship at California State University, Los Angeles!
- It's Much More Than Imus! The Industrial, Textual, and Cultural facets of Media Racism in The Society for the Study of Social Problems, Racial and Ethnic Studies Division Newsletter (July 2007), pp. 4-5.
- "Racism With Antiracists: Color-Conscious Racism and the Unintentional Persistence of Inequality." Social Thought and Research, 28 (2007): 67-108.
- "Virtual (Br)others and (Re)sisters: Authentic Black Fraternity and Sorority Identity on the Internet." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 37(4) (forthcoming 2008).
- "Black Aesthetics and Panther Rhetoric ? A Critical Decoding of Black Masculinity in The Black Panther, 1967-1980." Critical Sociology , (forthcoming 2008).
- "Brotherhood or Brothers in the 'Hood? Debunking the 'Educated Gang' Thesis as Black Fraternity and Sorority Slander." Race, Ethnicity, and Education, (forthcoming 2008).
- "The Pedagogy of Huey P. Newton: Critical Reflections on Education in his Writings and Speeches." Journal of Black Studies, 38(2) (2007): 209-231.
- "Crossing the Sands, Crossing the Color-Line: Non-Black members of Historically Black Greek Organizations." Journal of African American Studies, 11(1) (June 2007): 55-75.
February 05, 2008 | C-Ville Weekly
"...Carey Sargent, a UVA sociology grad student and local musician, has been working long hours on her dissertation
about local music scenes by going to hear good music and talking to really interesting people."
View the article complete with video.
Her work is also highlighted in the March 5, 2008 Richmond Style Weekly.
Jennifer Silva
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" ‘A New Generation of Women’? How American Female ROTC Cadets Negotiate the Tension between Masculine Military Culture and Traditional Femininity." Forthcoming, Social Forces, March 2009.
Justin Snyder
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Book Review - Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place, Edited by Oren Baruch Stier and J. Shawn Landres. September 2007 issue of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl
View her article from The Daily Progress on New Orleans after Katrina.