Read 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.

Steven Nock won the Distinguished Scholar Award posthumously at the 2008 ASA. The award is given to that scholar who has made outstanding scholarly contributions to the sociological study of the family. He was recognized yet again for his record of extraordinary productivity, his profound grasp of the institution of marriage and the family, and his selfless service to the discipline.

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• Prof. Olick gave a keynote address at Australian National University Dec. 12-14, 2007. GOVERNING BY LOOKING BACK: How History Matters in Society, Politics and Government, is a conference organized by the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University.
  
  
• View his recent interview published in the culture pages of the Tallinn, Estonia newspaper.
  
  
• Prof. Olick received a Swinburne Visiting Professor Award. He will work with colleagues at Swinburne’s Institute for Social Research in Melbourne, Australia to research issues of historical justice. View Swinburne's press release.
  
  
• Jeffrey Olick's work on collective memory will be the subject of  a 'supersession' at the annual meeting of The Rhetoric Society of America in May 2011.
  
  
• Prof. 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.
  

• 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 or view the UVA Today article.
  
  
• Prof. Roksa has been named the National Forum Fellow. As a Fellow, she will participate in the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education funded by the Teagle Foundation. The three-year program is designed to identify and prepare a core national group of emerging academic leaders to guide the future of the liberal arts. For more information on the Forum, click here.
  
  
• Prof. Roksa has also been selected as one of ten "Mead Honored Faculty" for 2010/11. This program identifies and celebrates outstanding teachers. The award will allow her to develop a special program in conjunction with students. You can can find out more about the Mead Endowment and the program it supports at MeadEndowment.org
  
  
• Josipa Roksa collaborated on a new book with Richard Arum, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Click here for more info.

• Wilcox's 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.
  
  
• Prof. Brad Wilcox's study on churchgoing men is featured in an articles from UVa Today. His brief can also be seen online at the Center for Marriage and Families website. Just prior to Father's Day 2008, he discussed the effect of religion on fatherhood and families in the Wall Street Journal.
  
  
• Brad Wilcox shares his views on religion and teen sexuality in a paper [view .pdf] for the Russell Sage Foundation. His argument is also discussed in an article from the Washington Post, and he was mentioned in the Nov. 2, 2007 issue of Time Magazine.
  
  
• Brad Wilcox is one of many sociologists and psychologists commenting on teenage marriage in an article from the September 4, 2008 New York Times after recent discussion in the news on the issue.
  
  
• Brad Wilcox offers his insight in a new article appearing in the Boston Globe discussing conservative thinkers and the Republican party.
  
  
• Professor Wilcox is also mentioned in another article in the New York Times, reporting on how financial problems relate to divorce rates. View article here.
  
  
• See Prof. Wilcox's other articles in the Wall Street Journal discussing religion, government and the rise of secularism in America, how marriage, divorce, and co-habitation affects children, or young and nonmorital childbearing.
  
  
• The results of a new study by Prof. Wilcox are outlined a Washington Post article. "Those to Pray Together Stay Together" - Read the results here.
  
  
• Science of Generosity Initiative - Prof. Brad Wilcox received a $150,000 grant from Notre Dame/Templeton for The Foundations of Marital Generosity Project (FMG). This money will go to fund a new survey of young married adults in the U.S. on the cultural and social sources of generosity in marriage.
  
  
• Brad Wilcox collaborated on an article in the Wall Street Journal discussing falling religious and marital fortunes of American working class. View more info here.

• Allison Pugh discusses parents and children as consumers in relation to their economic status in an article from the Washington Post. Her research was also featured in an article from UVA's Research News . She discusses how advertising and peer relationships influence children's wants and parental reaction to consumer culture in an article from UVA Magazine.

• Prof. Pugh was awarded a United States Study Center Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, to spend the 2010-2011 year at the University of Sydney in Australia. The postdoctoral program brings to the Centre emerging academic leaders for a year of research and writing about the US.  They choose 6 people from the social sciences and humanities, from an international applicant pool. For more information, click here.
  
  
• Prof. Pugh's latest 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. It won the 2010 Distinguished Contribution from the Children and Youth section of the ASA, and earned an honorable mention for the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, administered by the ASA's culture section.
  
  
• Prof. Allison Pugh, while on a fellowship at University of Sydney’s US Studies Centre, has been mentioned in an article from the Austrialian, which boasts the country's largest circulation. The article discusses her recent research on how the workplace affects family life. View article here.
  

• Elizabeth Gorman and Julie Kmec (Washington State University) 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.

• Professor Liz Gorman has an article in the March 2009 issue of the American Journal of Sociology. Her article, Hierarchical Rank and Women’s Organizational Mobility: Glass Ceilings in Corporate Law Firms, is a collaboration with Julie Kmec of Washington State University. View Article Here.

• Profs. Tom Guterbock & Milton Vickerman collaborated on a study by the Center for Survey Research which reviews the Prince William County, VA immigration policy. View full article from Washington Post or full report from CSR.



• THOMAS GUTERBOCK is leading an investigation on a controversial Prince William County law in which police may question detained suspects about their immigration status.
Guterbock made a brief appearance on CNN talking about Prince William County, VA's immigration policy.

• 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 CNN story.

• Simone Polillo and English Professor Brad Pasanek are guest editors on a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy which published select papers from the Fall 2009 "Beyond Liquidity" conference on metaphors, the social dynamics, and the social history of money - a conference that drew fifteen panelists from Economics to History, from Anthropology and Sociology to English, and both from UVa and from across the United States and the Atlantic. The issue was released in January 2011.

• Rae Blumberg talks about a 2011 trip to Southeast Asia. Click here for full article.