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Laura Pecenco co-curates art exhibit and speaks at SDSU

Laura Pecenco works at the nexus of the sociology of gender, visual sociology, and art.  She is co-curating an art exhibition at SDSU. The Prison Art Project: What does prisoner-made art look like — its themes, imagery, and materials? Laura Pecenco is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation research involves analyzing prisoner-made art. Pecenco and Goeltzenleuchter worked with SDSU students to curate an exhibition of prisoner-made art. A central goal of this exhibition is to generate awareness of the pervasive myths of prison life — much of which has been perpetuated through popular entertainment — and offer another, more complex model of what it means to live behind bars.
Laura Pecenco will speak at a panel discussion on Thursday, March 20, 2014, from 2-4 pm in Room LL108 of the SDSU Library.   Another panelist is noted photographer Stephen Chalmers are panelists.  Moderated by Art / Crime Archive co-directors Dr. Paul Kaplan (criminologist) and Brian Goeltzenleuchter (artist). For questions, please contactbgoeltzenleuchter@mail.sdsu.edu<mailto:bgoeltzenleuchter@mail.sdsu.edu>.
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Laura Pecenco’s dissertation, “Paint in the Can: Creating Art and Gender in Prison,” is a multi-method analysis of the diverse ways in which gender is performed by men in prison art programs.

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Recent Grad Leah Muse-Orlinoff

Congratulations to the latest Ph.D.- Dr. Leah Muse-Orlinoff! She successfully completed her dissertation titled, “Pioneer Entrepreneurs: Legal Capital and Social Network Changes in a First Generation Mexican Community.”

Leah will be joining the San Diego office of Harder+Company Community Research  as the resident social science research associate.

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Ian Mullins receives OSD Teaching Award

Our grad student Ian Mullins has received an award of recognition acknowledging his service in providing accommodations to students with disabilities at UC San Diego.  Ian was nominated for this award by students, and he has been commended by the Office for Students with Disabilities for his continued hard work and dedication in meeting the needs of all students with disabilities.  Bravo Ian!

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Lila Sharif awarded the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Grad student Lila Sharif has been awarded the prestigious UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. Lila’s dissertation, “Savory Politics: The Impact of Fair Trade Olive Oil Industries on Palestinian Livelihoods,” uses the production and consumption of Palestinian olive oil trade as an optic to examine the broader issues of Palestinian identity and Palestinians’ relations with Israel. Lila will defend her thesis sometime this Summer.

Lila has also been selected to be a member of the UC San Diego Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society for 2014. Congratulations and well done Lila!

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Recent grad a postdoc fellow at Harvard U.

Tricia Wang is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

During her time there, she will be turning her dissertation into a book that is tentatively titled, “Tales from the Chinese Internet.”  She will be giving a live streamed talk on Feb 18th for anyone who wants to see it. https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/02/wang

For anyone who wants to read the dissertation, it can be downloaded here. http://bit.ly/TALKINGTOSTRANGERS

Tricia also has a fellowship at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Next year she will be teaching a course on ethnography for designers and engineers.

In addition to Tricia’s academic appointments, she has started a consulting firm where she brings in ethnographers and quantitative data scientists to transform how organizations conduct research.  In this upcoming O’reilly talk, Tricia will be talking a bit about what she does with companies:http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/3020

Tricia recently gave the opening keynote talk at EPIC at the Royal Institution in London. It’s about the cultural construction of prediction and measurement. The talk transcript can be downloaded here: http:/bit.ly/ORALCES

Congratulations to Tricia on all her recent successes and accomplishments!

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Lisa Nunn’s new book- Defining Student Success: The Role of School and Culture

Congratulations to recent grad, Lisa Nunn, whose book (former dissertation) is now ready to purchase:

http://www.amazon.com/Defining-Student-Success-Culture-Childhood/dp/0813563615/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1389828161&sr=8-4&keywords=nunn%2C+lisa

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http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Defining-Student-Success,5185.aspx

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“Geoengineering and the Suppression of the Environmental Politics of Climate Change.”

Professor Charlie Thorpe and graduate student, Brynna Jacobson presented a paper at York University in Toronto for a conference on the Changing Political Economy of Research and Innovation.

The paper — lead authored by Brynna — is called “Geoengineering and the Suppression of the Environmental Politics of Climate Change.”

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Article by Angela Garcia Published

Congratulations to grad student Angela Garcia, whose article, “Hidden in plain sight: How unauthorized migrants strategically assimilate in restrictive localities in California” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Erica Bender receives Marine Corps grant

Grad student Erica Bender has received a grant from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for her study entitled, “Illustrating Gender: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Culture of Marine Corps Recruiting from WWII and Present Day.” Congratulations, Erica!

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Society Pages roundtable with Jon Stern

Society Pages roundtable with Jon Stern

Check  out the roundtable discussion about Burning Man with grad student Jon Stern.

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