Penn Sociology News
May 17, 2016
Sarah Adeyinka, Ph.D. student, was featured in the Penn Current last month for her work with the Fontaine Society. Sarah serves as the president of the Fontaine Society - a society which gives networking and creates a support system for underrepresented doctoral students at the University of Pennsylvania.
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May 11, 2016
Steve Viscelli's work on the trucking industry has been in the spotlight lately. His latest book, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream, which hit stores last month has springboarded a discussion on the quality of life, work, and the pursuit of happiness in the trucking industry with both Time magazine and The Atlantic.
Time recognized Viscelli's work by looking critically at the lack of autonomy truck drivers possess. It does in-depth to investigate the reasons there is a lack of satisfaction, benefits, and most importantly, lack of compensation for such a demanding line of work.
The Atlantic looked at the overall scholarship Viscelli produced in his book. It notes that there has been an incredible decline in wages and compensation from the large-scale companies while almost forcing truck drivers to become independent contractors to be their 'own' bosses - which turns out to do more harm than good.
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May 9, 2016
Andres Castro, joint student in sociology and demography, has received the 2016 Nancy Fariss Paper Award through the Latin and Latin American Studies (LALS) Program.
May 9, 2016
David Grazian's latest work, American Zoo: A Sociological Safari (Princeton University Press, 2015), has won this year's ASA Animals & Society section’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship for Best Book.
May 9, 2016
Dorothy Roberts spoke with SAS Frontiers on the significance of acknowledging black female sexuality.
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April 29, 2016
Elizabeth Lee, Ph.D. alum (2011), spoke with Inside Higher Ed today about her work on socio-economic inequality in higher education through her new book Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College.
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April 27, 2016
Doga Kerestecioglu, Ph.D. candidate, was awarded a place in Insight Data Science Fellows Program in New York, NY. Insight is an intensive 7+ weeks training fellowship bridging the gap between academia and data science. He will attend the program beginning on May 31.
April 27, 2016
Hyunjoon Park has edited a special issue, Becoming an Adult in East Asia: Multidisciplinary and Comparative Approaches, of Asian Journal of Social Science. The special issue features four papers that examine various issues related to transition to adulthood among East Asian young people.
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April 25, 2016
Lizzy Schwartz, College of Arts and Sciences ('16) and sociology major, was recently interviewed by The Civic House. You can read her interview here.
April 25, 2016
On April 7-8, 2016, the Department of Sociology hosted a conference in honor of the retirement of Professor Randall Collins. Below are links to videos from the event.
Toasts in honor of Randy
"What has Micro-Sociology Accomplished?"
April 25, 2016
April 7 and 8 Penn Sociology hosted Social Interaction and Theory: A Conference in Honor of Professor Randall Collins as a retirement gift. Penn SAS staff writer Blake Cole wrote a piece on the symposium, praising the event.
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April 25, 2016
Aliya Rao, Ph.D. Candidate, receives an Honorable Mention for the Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA's Sociology of Emotion Section on her paper Stand by your man: wives' emotions work during men's unemployment.
ASA Section on Emotions
April 21, 2016
The special issue, Education as a Positional Good, of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Hyunjoon Park and Yossi Shavit edited, has come out! http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02765624/43
The special issue features studies that examine trends in educational inequality and the education-occupation relationship in relative perspective, beyond the 'dominant' approach to education in nominal or absolute perspective.
The special issue features studies that examine trends in educational inequality and the education-occupation relationship in relative perspective, beyond the 'dominant' approach to education in nominal or absolute perspective.
April 14, 2016
Grace Kao gave a 60-Second Lecture for Penn Arts and Sciences yesterday, April 13. To view her talk please click the photo below.
April 13, 2016
Chad Evans, Ph.D. student, presented a paper he co-authored with Professor Frank Furstenberg on adjunct professors in higher education at the American Education Research Association Conference earlier this week.
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April 13, 2016
Radha Modi, Ph.D. candidate, has accepted a post-doctoral research fellowship from University of Illinois - Chicago's Asian American Studies Department. Radha's appointment will begin in June of this year.
April 12, 2016
Brooke Cunningham, Ph.D. (2006), spoke to first-year medical students at the University of Minnesota Medical School about seeing race in medicine but not using it to determine genetic abnormalities. She highlighted race as being a social construct, not a health determinant.
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April 12, 2016
Samuel Preston and Irma Elo's 2013 study on life expectancy in New York City was mentioned in The New York Times' article on poor New Yorkers and life expectancy compared to national counterparts.
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April 12, 2016
Andrew Stokes, Ph.D. (2014) in Demography and Sociology, spoke with The Wall Street Journal earlier this week about the advantages and disadvantages of being overweight and overall health.
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April 5, 2016
Megan Reed, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for 2016-2017.
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