Departmental briefs about graduate student and faculty accomplishments<\/strong><\/p>\n Sociology faculty and graduate students make a positive impact in multiple ways. Sometimes they make a significant difference through publications. In other cases, impact occurs through teaching and service outside the University or participation in workshops. Listed here are some of their recent accomplishments and recognition of achievement.<\/p>\n Sociology Graduate Students<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Annika Anderson and\u00a0Andrew Crookston<\/strong>\u00a0have coauthored a book chapter, \u201cThe Structural Origins of Stereotype Threat and Its Impact on Racial\/Ethnic Groups at Predominantly White Institutions.\u201d Pp. 19-35 in\u00a0The Plight of Students of Color at Predominantly White Institutions: a Critical Reader<\/em>, edited by R.V. Robertson. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing\u00a0(2013).<\/p>\n Valerie Adrian<\/strong>\u00a0accepted an invitation to teach \u201cAmerican Families in Historical and Sociological Perspective\u201d at The Evergreen State College for two weeks in the spring quarter 2014.<\/p>\n Jon Schreiner\u00a0<\/strong>is one of six sociology graduate students\u00a0nationwide to be invited to participate in an international workshop, \u201cMeasuring the Diverging Components of Race in Multiracial America,” at Texas A&M University this summer. His participation is supported by The American Sociological Association’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline.<\/p>\n Hao Feng<\/strong>\u00a0had two papers accepted for publication: Hao, Feng. In Press. \u201cThe effect of economic affluence and ecological degradation on Chinese environmental concern: A multilevel analysis.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences<\/em>. Hao, Feng. Forthcoming.\u00a0\u201cMaterial Extraction\/Consumption and Global Trade: An Empirical Examination for 95 Countries between 1980 and 2009.\u201d\u00a0Perspectives on Global Development and Technology.<\/em><\/p>\n Hong Zhang<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Lengefeld<\/strong>\u00a0have each received $1,500 Graduate Fellowships from\u00a0the WSU Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service.<\/p>\n Jose Collazo<\/strong>\u00a0received the Burgess Brothers Memorial Scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year.<\/p>\n Sociology Faculty<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Christine Horne<\/strong>\u00a0provided training in social science research methods to managers of a rural electrification program in Bangladesh. This training was provided as part of the WSU Energy Systems Innovation Center’s work with the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board. She also served on a National Science Foundation Review Panel this spring.<\/p>\n Christine Oakley\u00a0<\/strong>(2000, PhD) associate clinical professor in sociology and director of Global Learning, WSU International Programs, became president-elect of Alpha Kappa Delta, the National Honor Society for Sociology.<\/p>\n Amy Wharton<\/strong>\u00a0completed her term as president of the Pacific Sociological Association this spring.<\/p>\n Alair MacLean<\/strong>\u00a0published: Alair MacLean and Meredith Kley Kamp. 2014. \u201cComing Home: Attitudes toward U.S. Veterans returning from Iraq.\u201d\u00a0Social Problems<\/em>\u00a061(1):131-154.<\/p>\n Jennifer Schwartz\u00a0<\/strong>was selected to receive the 2014 College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Graduate Teaching and\/or Mentoring Award. Dr. Schwartz also received funding from the U.S. Department of Justice for a three-year research project to deliver the first comprehensive, multilevel data set on major white-collar crime. (https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2014\/04\/03\/identifying-risk-factors-for-corporate-financial-fraud\/)<\/p>\n Julie Kmec\u00a0<\/strong>was appointed on July 1, 2014, as the\u00a0<\/b>Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Sociology. She has also had three articles published: Kmec, Julie A. and Sheryl. L. Skaggs. (Forthcoming, November 2014). \u201cThe \u2018State\u2019 of Equal Employment Law and Managerial Gender Diversity.\u201d\u00a0Social Problems<\/em>. O\u2019Connor, Lindsey T. (2012 Sociology PhD), Julie A. Kmec, and Elizabeth Harris. (Forthcoming, 2014) \u201cGiving Care and Perceived Discrimination: The Social and Organizational Context of Family Responsibility Discrimination.\u201d\u00a0Research in the Sociology of Work<\/em>.\u00a0<\/i>Kmec, Julie A., Lindsey Trimble-O\u2019Connor and Scott Schieman. 2014. \u201cNot Ideal: Working Anything but Full Time and Perceptions of Unfair Treatment.\u201d\u00a0Work and Occupations<\/em>\u00a041: 3-17.<\/p>\n Julie Kmec\u00a0<\/strong>is co-principal investigator of a $450,000, three-year grant received from the National Science Foundation,\u00a0<\/b>“The Two-Body Problem: An Evaluation of University Partner Accommodation Policies with Implications for Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion of STEM Women.”\u00a0<\/b>She participated in the inaugural EEODATANET Conference at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) headquarters in Washington, DC, in May. The aim of this conference is to create an interdisciplinary conversation among social scientists currently using EEOC data and to deepen ties between the academic research community and research at the EEOC.<\/p>\n Erik Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0has published, \u201cToward international Comparative Research on Association Activity: Variation in the Form and Focus of Voluntary Associations in Four Nations,”\u00a0Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly<\/em>. \u00a02014. Vo. 43(2s) 163S-181S.<\/i><\/p>\n Mikhail Balaev<\/strong>\u00a0has published, \u201cImproving Models of Democracy: The Example of Lagged Effects of Economic Development, Education, and Gender Equality.\u201d\u00a0Social Science Research<\/em>, 46:169-183.<\/p>\n Monica K. Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the first two College of Arts and Sciences faculty to be awarded a two-year appointment as a distinguished professor in the WSU Honors College. Earlier this year she presented an invited lecture on \u201cParental financial Assistance in the Transition to Adulthood\u201d at Duke University, and had an article accepted for publication: Monica\u00a0K. Johnson, J. Staff, M. Patrick and J. Schullenberg, \u201cThe Great Recession and Recent Employment Trends among Secondary Students in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 2014.\u00a0Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n