Penn Sociology News

Ph.D. student Amanda Barrett Cox has been awarded the 2018 Graduate Student Paper Award from the Sociology of Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association for her paper entitled, "Correcting Behaviors and Policing Emotions: How Behavioral Infractions Become Feeling-Rule Violations."

Calvin Rashaud Zimmermann, Ph.D. Candidate, has accepted a position with University of Notre Dame Sociology. Calvin's appointment will begin in the fall as a postdoctoral position for the 2018-2019 adacemic year and his assistant professorship in the fall of 2019.

Courtney Boen has been awarded a $50,000 pilot awarded from the Penn Institute on Aging. Courtney will use her funding on a project entitled, "Psychosocial Stress Exposure, Biological Functioning, and Cognitive Change across the Life Course." 

Lindsay Glassman, Ph.D. student, released a podcast in late March regarding her recently published article entitled “In the Lord’s Hands”: Divine Healing and Embodiment in a Fundamentalist Christian Church with Sociology of Religion. You can listen to Lindsay's podcast here.

Graduate student Amanda Barrett Cox has co-authored Parental Challenges to Organizational Authority in an Elite School District: The Role of Cultural, Social, and Symbolic Capital with Annette Lareau and Elliot Weininger in Teachers College Record. The article examines education and the socioeconomic elite in the public sector.

PhD student Haley Pilgrim has received the Paul Spickard Graduate Student Paper Award for Critical Mixed Race Studies. Her paper "But I Just Look So White:' The Identity Choices and Racialized Emotional Work of Second-Generation Black-White Multiracials" was chosen by a jury of senior scholars in a variety of disciplines from across the world. She presented findings from this paper at the 2018 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Resisting, Reclaiming, and Reimagining. 

Steve Viscelli was featured in a Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Podcast entitled, "The Promise and Peril of Self-Driving Trucks." 

Daniel Aldana Cohen will join the Insitute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science (Princeton Campus) for the 2018-2019 academic year. The theme of next year's seminar is Crisis and Critique.

Shantee Rosado, Ph.D. Candidate, received a two-year pre-doctoral/post-doctoral fellowship in Latina/o Studies at Williams College. The fellowship focuses on U.S. Afro-Latino Studies and begins in Fall 2018. The first year will be devoted to the completion of dissertation work while also teaching one course in the study of U.S. Afro-Latinidades. The second year of residency (ideally with degree in hand) will be spent on academic career development while again teaching one course.