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Congratulations to Sociology’s Award Winning Grad Students!

May 12, 2020

Congratulations to our graduate students who have received prestigious awards from the University: Erin Phelps: Graduate Student Appreciation Award Colette Ngana: Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award Jacob Rivera: Ruth Barber Moon Award Polina Ermoshkina: Marie Haug Award for Excellence in Aging Studies Please join us in congratulating these outstanding students!

Congratulations to Eva Kahana; 2020 Diekoff Award Recipient

May 11, 2020

Congratulations to Sociology's Eva Kahana for receiving the John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students through advising, mentoring and classroom teaching. Tim Goler, a former student of Dr. Kahana's, said of her "Eva was the first person in my life...

Sociology graduate students enjoy their time with UC Berkley Sociologist Michael Burawoy

March 18, 2024

Sociology graduate students enjoy their time with UC Berkley sociologist Michael Burawoy. Professor Burawoy, known for his contributions to Marxist sociology, sociological theory, public sociology, and ethnographic research methods, presented his most recent work entitled, What Shall We Do With The Canon: The Significance of W.E.B Du Bois at...

Casey Albitz quoted in The New York Times

March 4, 2020

Sociology Ph.D. student Casey Albitz was recognized in The New York times for her work the with housing court, which is also the basis for her dissertation. Casey's Works-in-Progress, the chance to learn more about her dissertation, is scheduled in February within the Department of Sociology.

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

September 6, 2019

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.

Jessica Kelley and Jielu Lin win ASA SALC Outstanding Publication Award

September 6, 2019

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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