What is the lived experience of previously healthy older adults as they face disability in late life, and how is disability assimilated in their identity? How do prevailing practices facilitate—or limit—options for elders living with new disabilities? To address these questions, Jeffrey Kahana and Eva Kahana uniquely synthesize disability and gerontological perspectives to explore both the unfolding challenges of aging and the practices and policies that can enhance the lives of older adults in their forthcoming publication Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults available from Lynne Rienner Publishers April 2017.
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Brian Gran was invited to serve as a Discipline Reviewer for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program and also invited to serve as an Advisory Board member of the Ohio Consortium of Crime Sciences.
Mary Erdmans presented at two events in Poland this June. She gave a talk, "Blaming, Shaming, and Explaining Early Childbirth in the US" at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology, and Journalism at the University of Gdansk (Poland) on June 1. For more information visit their blog at http://socjologda.blogspot.com/.
On June...
Congratulations to Relebohile Morojele, Robert Peterson, Rebecca Siders, and Margaret Waltz for successfully defending their dissertations!
Relebohile Morojele, "Pregnant Women's Experience of Provider Initiated HIV Testing in Lesotho"
Robert Peterson, "Organization & Community Deficits: Examining the Roles and Responses of Community-Based Organizations to HIV"
Rebecca Siders, "Voices from the...
The 12th annual graduate awards ceremony was held on Monday, May 2 in Tinkham University Ballroom. The ceremony recognizes graduate students that have received awards during the 2015–2016 academic year. We are proud to share the news that eight awards were given to Sociology doctoral students this year. Please...
The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that at this weekend’s commencement ceremonies, Eva Kahana, Distinguished University Professor and Robson Professor of Sociology, Humanities, Applied Social Science, Nursing and Medicine, will be awarded the Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize. The Hovorka Prize is awarded to an active...