On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life before Pregnancy, co-authored by Professors Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, received the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award of the Association for Humanist Sociology. The awards committee unanimously selected On Becoming a Teen Mom out of 70 submissions for its comprehensive methodology, humanist perspective, and demonstration of the relationships between, gender, power, race, and class on outcomes for teen moms. The committee also noted that the book is rigorously written and offers a compelling argument for social activists.
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Scientific American and Remedy Health Media have partnered to identify emerging trends in the field of medical research and communicate these findings in Scientific American Health After 50. In the special Fall 2015 issue you can find Eva Kahana featured in the article “Volunteering: Giving and Getting” sharing her expertise and knowledge.
Two sociology faculty members were elected to national office in this Spring’s American Sociological Association (ASA) election.
Jessica Kelley-Moore was elected to the position of Chair-Elect of the Section on Aging and the Life Course. She will serve as Chair of the Section in 2016-2017. Jessica’s election to this important office continues a long tradition of Section leadership from CWRU faculty, several of whom have served as chair and in other leadership roles in the past.
Eva Kahana was elected to council of the Section on Disability in Society. This follows on her recent term as Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Section.
Congratulations, Jessica and Eva !
The Department of Sociology is very pleased to welcome Dr. Áine Ní Léime, a Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Dr. Ní Léime has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Union to study and conduct research here at CWRU for a two-year period.
Brian Gran is the new editor of Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published through Scholarly Commons of the Case Western Reserve University Law School.
Eva Kahana recently published Health Web Science, a co-authored monograph in the series Foundations and Trends in Web Science, with Now Publishers.