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Josipa Roksa collaborated on a new book with Richard Arum, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Click here for more info.

Prof. Roksa received the Bankard Fund for Political Economy Award for her project titled Does Employment during College Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Degree Completion and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes? Bankard Fund supports projects that will have the greatest possible influence upon the development and continuation of the public policy necessary for a healthy private business system and a healthy national economy. For more information, click here.
 To read more about Prof. Roksa, click here.

Brad Wilcoxbrad wilcox comments in an article in the New York Times on the National Marriage Project’s annual “State of Our Unions” report concerning the effect of the economy on marriage and divorce. View article here.
Prof. wilcox discusses the results of a survey by the National Marriage Project on how the economic recession affects marriage. View full article from Washington Post.
View more information on Prof. Wilcox's research.


Jeff Olick Jeff Olick commented on social media sites and memory on NPR, April 4, 2011.
Listen here.



PughALLISON PUGH - congratulations on winning a Bankard Research Award for 2011-12.

View more information on Professor Pugh's research about families as consumers.



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.

Elizabeth Gorman with her co-investigator Professor Fiona Kay of Queen's University, Canada, has been awarded a grant for their project, "Law Firm Employment Practices and the Representation of Minority Lawyers." The LSAC Research Grant Program funds research on a wide variety of topics related to precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. For more information, click here.

Simone Polillo's piece, "Money, Moral Authority, and the Politics of Creditworthiness," appeared in the June 2011 issue of American Sociological Review. View article here.


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Graduate Students in the News

PhD candidates Ben Snyder & Tara Tober
have each been awarded NSF Dissertation fellowships - only 26 fellowships are available to sociologists. Congratulations to them and their faculty advisor, Jeffrey Olick.

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

Fan Mai

  • Offers insight on "Hook-up Culture" in an article from the Cavalier Daily on April 19, 2011.

Sarah Mosseri

Deborah Rexrode

  • 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.

Ben Snyder

  • Snyder, Benjamin H. (2010). “Emotional Control: A Bibliographic Review.” The Hedgehog Review 12(1):45-51.
  • Oishi, Shigehiro, Selin Kesebir, & Benjamin H. Snyder. (2009). “Sociology: A Lost Connection in Social Psychology.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 13(4):334-353.

Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl

  • Mass Incarceration Discussion to Kick Off Juneteenth Celebrations on NBC29.com, June 16, 2011. View article here.
  • Elected to the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board for a two year term. She will serve as Chair of the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board for 2010-11
  • Society for the Study of Social Problems Newsletter Fall 2009- reflections on the Oprah phenomena. View Newsletter here.

Tara Tober

Haiming Yan

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