College of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Brian Gran 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.   Congratulations, also, to sociology faculty and instructors who were nominated for the Jackson and Wittke Awards:  Spencier Ciaralli, Karie Feldman,...

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This year, five graduate students received prestigious awards from the University. Spencier Ciaralli received the Graduate Dean’s Instructional Excellence Award, Christine Schneider and Jiao Yu received the Marie Haug Award, and Reema Sen was awarded the Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship. These students were all honored at CWRU's Graduate Student...

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Friday, April 26 for “Food Schemas and the Psychic Differential of Eating” presented by Kara Young, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University. The lecture will be held in Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center,...

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The Department of Sociology 2019 Achievements Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 25 from 5:00 - 6:30 PM. At this year's ceremony we will recognize students being initiated into the Sociology Honor Society and students who are recipients of undergraduate awards. Kara Young, Assistant Professor in the Department...

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Thursday, April 4, 2019 for “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” presented by Tey Meadow, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University. The lecture will be held in Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108 from 11:30 - 1:30 PM. Lunch...

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Jessica Kelley has been appointed Co-Editor, with Professor Roland J. Thorpe of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, of the book series Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Springer Publishing).  In each of their five years in the term, Drs. Kelley and Thorpe will select the theme for the...

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