Cassi Pittman has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s 2017 National Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The fellowship seeks to increase the presence ofminority junior faculty members and other faculty committed to eradicating racial disparities incore fields in the arts and humanities. The Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports the Mellon Foundation’s mission to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and tothe well-being of diverse and democratic societies.
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Alicia Smith-Tran, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology, was named a recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Dissertation Grant through the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for the 2017-18 school year for her dissertation research, “Racialized Runners: Life Stories of Black Women Who Run.” The selection panel noted that they were “impressed by the strength of [her] application and the outstanding scholarship demonstrated in [her] dissertation chapter.”
On December 13th nine sociology majors presented their Senior Capstone Experience (SOCI 392) research project to the scientific community of Case Western Reserve University. Each project represented an independent product reflective of the emerging intellectual interests and strengths of each student. The topics were drawn from a diversity of...
At this year’s meeting of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Dale Dannefer’s 2003 paper “Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage and the Life Course: Cross-Fertilizing Age and Social Science Theory” was recognized as the second most cited paper in the history of the long running journal.
Áine Ní Léime, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow funded by the European Framework Programme 7, shared the preliminary results of a project conducted in the CWRU Department of Sociology entitled Gender, Older Workers and the Lifecourse (GENDOWL). The research focused on the experiences and the views of workers...
Karie Feldman and Brian Gran were featured in a Guest Columnist article on Cleveland.com entitled “With paid parental leave on both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s agendas, it’s time to adopt it: Karie Feldman and Brian K. Gran (Opinion).” Read the full article here: