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Sue Hinze, Brian Gran, and doctoral candidate Anne Bryden collaborate on DoD grant

In collaboration with Kim Anderson (Department of Physical Medicine and MetroHealth), the Department of Sociology’s Anne Bryden, Brian Gran and Sue Hinze recently learned that the Department of Defense Spinal Cord Injury Research Program is funding their project entitled, “Perspectives on Recovery and Interventions to Restore Function Across the First Year of Spinal Cord Injury.” The $803,000 award supports research that compares needs of Veterans who have experienced spinal cord injury, as well as needs of those Veterans’ caregivers, with civilians and their caretakers, during the first year of injury as they attempt to reintegrate into the community.

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Jessica Kelley and Jielu Lin win ASA SALC Outstanding Publication Award

Jessica Kelley and CWRU Sociology alumna Jielu Lin have been awarded the “Outstanding Publication Award” for their paper, “From Noise To Signal:  The Age and Social Patterning of Intra-Individual Variability in Late -Life Health” by the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association.  The paper appeared in the Journal of Gerontology Social Sciences (https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/72/1/168/2632037).   Kelley and Lin (currently assistant professor at the University of Northern Arizona)  received the award in August, at the Annual Meeting of the ASA in New York.

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Cassi Pittman Claytor writes about retail racism in a recent Op-ED in The Guardian

In the article,  “Shopping while black’: yes, bias against black customers is real,” Pittman Claytor shares important insight on why black consumers continue to encounter racism when they are merely trying to spend their money. It is an extension of her work on the everyday forms of discrimination that black consumers encounter in the marketplace and calls out retail stores for institutional practices that perpetuate the practice.

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The Department of Sociology 2019 Achievement Award Ceremony

Seven students were initiated into the Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) International Sociology Honor Society and thirteen students were recipients of Undergraduate Awards during the Sociology department’s 2019 Achievements Awards Ceremony. The Gene S. Uyeki Memorial Lecture, “Sociology as an Everyday Practice,” was delivered by Assistant Professor of Sociology from...

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Congratulations Sociology Doctoral Graduates

Congratulations to Timothy Goler and Kelly Melvin-Campbell for successfully defending their dissertations! DISSERTATION TITLES: “Racial Differences in Stressful Life Events, Coping and Psychological Well-being among Urban Older Adults” by Timothy Goler. “Who Is Talking With Whom? An Investigation of Community Policing and Inter-Agency Collaboration In a Rustbelt Secondary City: A Case Study”...

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