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PhD candidate Emily Ryo has been awarded a Mellon/ American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year.
For information regarding ACLS grants and felloships, visit the website.
Third-year PhD student Kendra Bischoff's second-year paper will be published.
Bischoff's paper, “School District Fragmentation and Racial Residential Segregation: How do Boundaries Matter?” is forthcoming in Urban Affairs Review.
Second-year PhD student Sara Bloch received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Graduating PhD Paul Chang's paper, "Unintended Consequences of Repression: Alliance Formation in South Korea's Democracy Movement (1970-1979)" was accepted for publication in Social Forces.
He has also accepted a job as Assistant Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University.
PhD student Sarah K. Harkness has an article forthcoming in Social Psychology Quarterly (June 2008)
Amy Kroska and Sarah K. Harkness. 2008. "Exploring the Role of Diagnosis in the Modified Labeling Theory of Mental Illness." Social Psychology Quarterly.
Abstract:
"According to the modified labeling theory of mental illness, when an individual is diagnosed with a mental illness, cultural ideas associated with the mentally ill become personally relevant and foster negative self-feelings. We explore the way that psychiatric diagnosis shapes this process. Specifically, we examine if and how psychiatric patients' diagnostic category (adjustment, affective, or schizophrenic) moderates the relationship between stigma sentiments and the meanings associated with self-identities ("myself as I really am") and reflected appraisals ("myself as other see me"). Stigma sentiments are the evaluation, potency, and activity associated with the cultural category "a mentally ill person." We find that diagnosis moderates several of these relationships and that the results among patients with an affective diagnosis best match the stigma sentiment hypotheses derived from the modified labeling theory. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the stigma sentiment hypotheses. We also highlight several avenues for future research."
JD/Sociology PhD Jamillah Bowman and Professor Michele Landis Dauber's group "Build a Better Legal Profession" featured in the New York Times.
Matt Snipp opens The Secure Data Center, part of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford (IRiSS), this month
David Grusky launches Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (CPI)
See article in San Jose newspaper The Mercury News, October 9th, 2007 issue
Paula England and colleagues affiliated with the nonprofit Council on Contemporary Families find "Highly educated mothers likely to stay in work force"
Karen Cook elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Professor Lawrence Bobo wins prestigious Gugenheim fellowship
Professor Joseph Berger honored with the 2007 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award by ASA for lifetime contributions
Professor Michael Rosenfeld’s new book reveals rise in non-traditional unions
Graduate student Yan Li profiled in "Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association"
See article in Vol. 11 - No. 1 - Spring 2007