Penn Sociology News

Nora Gross recently spoke to Omnia about her disseration. You can read the full article here. Nora's ethnographic dissertation analyzes the overt and covert manifestations of grief in Black adolescent boys’ social and academic lives following repeated neighborhood violence – and how urban schools manage students’ emotional responses and foster recovery.

Iliana Kohler, PSC Associate Director & PARC Associate, was accepted as a Perelman School of Medicine Center for Global Health Scholar.

Ross Koppel recently co-authored work in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on electronic health records in, "Physicians’ gender and their use of electronic health records: findings from a mixed-methods usability study."

At the 2019 ASA Annual Meeting in New York City, Penn Sociology had many award recipients. Congratulations are also in order to our faculty and students whose research was recognized by the various sections of the American Sociological Association at this year’s annual meeting.

Jason Schnittker received the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health for his book: Jason Schnittker, The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled. Columbia University Press. 2017.

Benjamin Shestakofsky received The W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work for his article: Benjamin Shestakofsky, “Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work,” Work and Occupations 44(4): 376–423. 2017.

Peter Harvey (Ph.D. Candidate) received Graduate Student Paper Award from the Section on Children and Youth for his paper: Peter Harvey, Not So Easy: Lessons in Body Management in an Elite Elementary School.

Lindsay Glassman (Ph.D., 2019) won the Student Paper Award from the Section on Sociology of Religion: Lindsay Glassman, University of Pennsylvania. In the Lord's Hands: Divine Healing and Embodiment in a Fundamentalist Christian Church.
 

Rake Sen recently penned an article for Dhaka Tribune about salinity issues in Gabura. Due to a changing climate, sea level rise, coastal erosion, and ocean acidification, the balance of salt in the Sundarbans is changing rapidly. The result is devastating for the inhabitants of this coastal lands. This article touches on the ways that salt intrudes on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Sundarbans long-term. You can read the full article here.

Ashleigh Cartwright, Ph.D. student, recently spoke with Penn Today about her experiences growing up in an overall context of minorities in majority spaces. You can read Ashleigh's interview here.

Daniel Aldana Cohen recently wrote for The Nation an article entitled, "Eco-Apartheid is Real."

Daniel Aldana Cohen gave part to a VICE interview discussing climate changes and inequality that potentially occur when disasters strike. You can read the full article here.

Wendy D. Roth's work on race has been mentioned in this recent New York Times article, How White Nationalists See What They Want to See in DNA Tests.