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Olivia Hu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, awarded an honorable mention from the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award
Olivia Hu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, was awarded an honorable mention from the American Sociological Association Section onCourtney Boen, Professor of Sociology, and Annelise Luck, PhD Candidate in Demography and Sociology have published a new co-authored paper in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Courtney Boen, Professor of Sociology, and Annelise LuckOlivia Hu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, published her first publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal, titled, "Linking Race and Genes: Racial Conceptualization among Genetic Ancestry Test-Takers"
Olivia Hu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, published her first publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal, titled,Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, published new co-authored working paper titled, "Measuring Care Provision in the United States: Resources, Shortfalls, and Possible Improvements"
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has a new co-authored working paper titled, "Measuring Care Provision in theElena van Stee, PhD Candidate in Sociology, has been named the newly-appointed blog editor for Contexts, the public-facing magazine of the American Sociological Association
Elena van Stee, PhD Candidate in Sociology, is the newly-appointed blog editor for Contexts, the public-facing magazine of the American Sociological AAlexander Adames, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Receives Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA
Alexander Adames, PhD Candidate in Sociology, has been selected by the ASA Section on Aging & the Life Course as the 2023 recipient of the section’s Graduate Student Paper Award! Check out his work that won him this award here:
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Faculty Bookshelf
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Develops a performance theory of Red Guard factional violence and traces the ritual process of the transformation of a political generation over a period of forty years.
Blue Chicago
The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences.
Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence
By: Randall Collins
This sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does.
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
What would you do?
Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death.
On the Make
The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
David Grazian’s riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons.
