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...
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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...
Pamela Herd, Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, presented a public lecture on March 16 entitled “Promises and Pitfalls of Integrating Biological Data into Social Science Studies.” Professor Herd’s visit was sponsored by the Provost’s Office through...
Jessica Kelley-Moore has been invited to join the Advisory Board for the Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD). RCMD is an initiative of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located at University of Michigan. Its mission is to provide educators, researchers, and students with data resources to analyze issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. RCMD provides access and analytic tools for researchers seeking to utilize the vast array of data from ICPSR on underrepresented minorities. For more information on data and training, see: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/RCMD/brochure.pdf.
Gunhild Hagestad, Adjunct Professor of Sociology at CWRU and an internationally recognized leader in the sociology of age and the life course and related fields, delivered a lecture on January 20 entitled “How does a lifelong life-course researcher respond to a call for personal perspectives on aging?”
Drawing on classic...