Great news about UCSD Sociology alumna Liberty Walther Barnes! Her book Conceiving Masculinity has won the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize. Liberty graduated with her PhD in 2011 and is now a research associate in the department of sociology at Cambridge University.
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Book by Liberty Walther Barnes wins Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize
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Recent grads research cited in the New York Times
Congrats to Erin Cech (now at Rice University) and Tom Waidzunas (now at Temple University)—two recent UCSD Sociology graduates, whose research was cited a couple of days ago in the New York Times. Nice work! Check out the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/opinion/manil-suri-why-is-science-so-straight.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0
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Article by Tad Skotnicki and Kwai Ng accepted by Signs and Society
Recent PhD,Tad Skotnicki and Professor Kwai Ng co-authored an article entitled, “‘That British Sound’: Talk of Nationalness in Global Capitalism” It has recently been accepted by the journal Signs and Society.
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Prof. FitzGerald’s book wins ASA International Migration section award
Professor David FitzGerald’s book, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas, won the ASA International Migration Section’s Thomas & Znaniecki Book Award. Congratulations David!
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Paper by Natalie Aviles accepted by Sociology Methods and Research
Natalie Aviles has co-written a paper with Isaac Reed, “Ratio via machina: Three standards of mechanistic explanation in sociology,” that has been accepted by Sociological Methods and Research (see abstract below). Congratulations Natalie!
Natalie B. Aviles (first author) and Isaac Ariail Reed ABSTRACT: Recently, sociologists have expended much effort in attempts to define social mechanisms. We intervene in these debates by proposing that sociologists in fact have a choice to make between three standards of what constitutes a good mechanistic explanation: strict-substantial, formal, and metaphorical mechanistic explanation. All three standards are active in the field, and we suggest that a more complete theory of mechanistic explanation in sociology must parse these three approaches to draw out the implicit evaluative criteria appropriate to each. Doing so will reveal quite different preferences for explanatory scope and nuance hidden under the ubiquitous term ‘social mechanism.’ Finally, moving beyond extensive debates about realism and anti-realism, we argue prescriptively against ‘mechanistic fundamentalism’ for sociology, and advocate for a more pluralistic understanding of social causality.
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Two pieces on Community College Education by Kelly Nielsen Published
In April grad student Kelly Nielsen had a chapter titled, “Beyond ‘Warming Up’ and ‘Cooling Out’: The Effects of Community College on a Diverse Group of Disadvantaged Young Women” published in a Routledge volume called Inequality, Power and School Success Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education, edited by Gilberto Conchas and Michael Gottfried. Info on the book can be found athttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138837881/
Kelly has recently learned that a paper of his that was conditionally accepted in the first round of reviews has been accepted for publication in the journal Sociology of Education. The paper, titled, “’Fake It ‘Til You Make It’: Why Community College Students’ Aspirations ‘Hold Steady’” will be published in the October issue.
Both of these pieces are from his dissertation research. Congratulations Kelly!
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Paper by Rawan Arar accepted by Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Rawan Arar’s paper, “How Political Migrant Networks Differ: Strategic Anonymity and the Case of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan” has been accepted by the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Congratulations, Rawan!
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Professor FitzGerald’s book wins ASA Distinguished Contribution award
The ASA Political Sociology Section’s Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award Committee has announced that Professor David FitzGerald’s book, Culling the Masses is a co-winner with National Colors of this year’s award. Congratulations!
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Paper by Natalie Aviles wins ASA award
Natalie Aviles’ paper, “The Little Death: Rigoni-Stern and the Problem of Sex and Cancer in Twentieth-Century Biomedical Research,” has been awarded the 2015 Hacker-Mullins Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Science, Knowledge and Technology. This paper has been pubished in the journal Social Studies of Science.
Congrats Natalie!
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Prof. FitzGerald’s book wins best book award
The book award committee of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association unanimously awarded the best book prize for books on migration and citizenship (published in 2014) to Professor FitzGerald’s book, Culling the Masses:The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Congratulations David!
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