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PhD Candidate Melissa Brown & Black Social Movements Undergraduate Course featured in Inside Higher Ed
Melissa Brown, SOCY PhD Candidate, was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed during the ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal. The article, "Teaching Sociology in 2017" addresses how sociology professors are "teaching in the political now." In other words, how are sociologists helping students learn to make sense of the current events.
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SOCY Faculty and Graduate Students Head to Montreal for the ASA Annual Meetings
Many of our faculty and graduate students are heading to Montreal, Canada for the 112th ASA Annual Meeting on August 11-15, 2017. UMD sociology will be well represented with our faculty and students presenting at 55 different sessions between ASA and other concurrent conferences, including the Association of Black Sociologists, the Group Processes Conference, the Media Sociology Preconference, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Conference, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems Conference.
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Undergraduate Students Mentored by Sociology Faculty for 2017 BSOS Summer Research Initiative
Founded in 1999, the Summer Research Initiative (SRI) was created by the Office of the Dean in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and is supported by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate School, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the College. The program is designed to encourage and enhance the diversity of scholars working in the social and behavioral science fields. This year, Associate Professors of Sociology Julie Park and Rashawn Ray mentored three students in the program.
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PhD Candidate Anya Galli Awarded the 2017 Mayer N. Zald Distinguishhed Contribution to Schoularship Student Paper Award
The Sociology Department would like to congratulate PhD Candidate, Anya Galli, for being awarded the 2017 Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association! The article was based off of Anya's second year paper.
Congratulations Anya!
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Recent SOCY PhD Job Placements
The Department of Sociology would like to congratulate the following PhD graduates for their new jobs!
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PhD Candidate Sidra Montgomery's Dissertation project selected by ASA for Presentation at Coalition for National Science Funding
PhD Candidate, Sidra Montgomery's NSF-funded dissertation project was selected by the American Sociological Association for presentation at the CNSF (Coalition for National Science Funding) Expo on the Hill tomorrow evening. Sidra and Dr. Meredith Kleykamp will be meeting with Hill staffers to discuss social science research and the value of NSF for our research.
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Dr. Patricia Hill Collins selected as the winner of the ASA DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
Distinguished University Professor, Dr. Patricia Hill Collins, was selected as the winner of the 2017 American Sociological Association's W.E.B.
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Dr. Kris Marsh Selected for the 2017 OMSE Academy of Academic Excellence "Excellence in Service" Medal for Outstanding Faculty
Congraulations to Dr. Kris Marsh, for being selected by the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education's (OMSE) Academy of Excellece as the recipient of the 2017 Excellence in Service Medal for Outstanding Faculty!
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SOCY Graduate Student Awards
Congratulations to the following students for their accomplishments and awards this year!
Brittany Dernberger received the DC Sociological Society's Irene B. Taeuber paper award for her paper "The Tied Migrant Employment Penalty: Public Perceptions of Military Spouses Seeking Work"
