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June 25, 2018
Annette Lareau, Amabda Barrett Cox, and Elliot B. Weininger (Professor Sociology, SUNY College at Brockport) recently discussed their research on an affluent school district, and the impact that parents within such communities may have on the schools, in The New York Times.
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June 13, 2018
Haley Pilgrim, Ph.D. student, spoke with Knowledge@Wharton High School on color-blindness and unconscious bias in the workplace. Read the full article here.
June 13, 2018
David K. Kirui, Ph.D. student, has co-published Does generational status matter in college? Expectations and academic performance among second-generation college students in the US with Grace Kao (Professor of Sociology, Yale University) in a special issue of Ethnicities on educational inequality.
June 13, 2018
Emily Hannum has been announced as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her appointment will begin July 1, 2018. In this role Emily will oversee the School’s social sciences departments (Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History and Sociology of Science, Political Science, and Sociology) and research centers.
June 11, 2018
Courtney Boen has been named the recipient of Best Dissertation Award by American Sociological Association's Sociology of Mental Health section, for her dissertation entitled “Inequality ‘Under the Skin’: Stress & the Biodemography of Racial Health Disparities Across the Life Course.”.
June 11, 2018
Last month Emilio Parrado spoke on WBUR's On Point Podcast, discussing the decline in US birth rates and international migration. You can listen to the podcast here.
May 21, 2018
Angela Simms, Ph.D. Candidate, has accepted Penn's School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Simms has also received an honorable mention for the Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellowship, which is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.
May 15, 2018
Phoebe Ho, a Ph.D. candidate, and Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng ('14) have co-authored a study comparing teacher perceptions of parental involvement and how this varies by family race, ethnicity, and nativity in Social Science Research. Their study, "How far can the apple fall? Differences in teacher perceptions of minority and immigrant parents and their impact on academic outcomes," can be read here.
May 14, 2018
Melissa Wilde speaks on Give Methods a Chance podcast on conducting comparative historical research and her forthcoming book entitled Birth of the Culture Wars. You can listen to Melissa's podcast here.
May 14, 2018
Amada Armenta’s book Protect, Serve, Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement has been recognized as a Finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problems’ 2017 C. Wright Mills Award and an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Law and Society Association's Herbert Jacob Prize.
May 14, 2018
Pilar Gonalons-Pons' article, “Trends in economic homogamy: Changes in assortative mating or the division of labor in marriage?”, has been awarded the honor of nominee for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.
May 7, 2018
Penn Today spoke with Steve Viscelli about safety, economic implications, and environmental challenges of driverless trucks. You can read the full article here.
May 7, 2018
Sherelle Ferguson has won an NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, awarded to students conducting dissertation research related to education.
She has also been awarded a Graduate Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the Penn Center for Teaching and Learning for the 2018-2019 school year.
April 24, 2018
Haley Pilgrim, Ph.D. Student, has been awarded the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.
April 24, 2018
Onoso Imoagene has published Stepping up Your Game: Workplace Experiences of Second-Generation Nigerians in the USA in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.
April 19, 2018
Ph.D. candidate Tina Wu has accepted the Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University, where she will begin as "Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow" in Management and Organizations at NYU Stern in September 2018.
April 19, 2018
Ph.D. candidate Nora Gross recently published her article, "#IfTheyGunnedMeDown: The Double Consciousness of Black Youth in Response to Oppressive Media," with Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. The article investigates double consciousness among black youth in the age of social media.
April 19, 2018
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."
April 13, 2018
Anea Moore, C'19, has been announced as one of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship recipients for the upcoming academic year. This is an award that supports students who plan to pursue careers in government or public service and who wish to attend graduate or professional school. Recipients are awarded funding up to $30,000.
April 13, 2018
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.