{"id":1801,"date":"2020-05-18T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T00:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/?page_id=1801"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:38:41","slug":"spring-20-publications-awards-activities-and-other-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/spring-20-publications-awards-activities-and-other-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications, Awards, Activities, and other Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tPublications, Awards, Activities, and other Accomplishments\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p>Asterisk (*) denotes current WSU Sociology graduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" wsu-font-size--xlarge\"><em>Congratulations to\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Student Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eric Allen*<\/strong>, who successfully defended his dissertation, \u201cWorkplace Discrimination and Health: Gender Differences and Intergenerational Outcomes,\u201d in March 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Liz Aust*<\/strong>, who successfully defended her MA thesis, \u201cHow Job Level Sex Composition and Gender Influence Adhere to the Ideal Worker Norm,\u201d in November 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yikang Bai*<\/strong>, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, \u201cLongitudinal and Network Analyses of International Trade in Plastic Waste,\u201d in May 2020. He also completed the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Statistics in the fall 2019 semester.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lindsey Beltz*<\/strong>, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation, \u201cRecreational Cannabis Legislation in Washington State: Residents\u2019 Opinions and Perceptions of Effects Five Years After Implementation,\u201d in November 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Olivia Butterman*<\/strong>, who successfully defended her thesis, &#8220;A Rural-Urban Environmental Education Divide? A Study of Environmental Science and Studies Degree Programs in U.S. Universities,\u201d in April 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marisa Cervantes*<\/strong>, who was selected to take part in the 2020 Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute for Advanced Doctoral Students at the University of Texas at Austin. <strong>Cervantes <\/strong>also won the Arnold and Julia Greenwell Memorial Scholarship for Social Sciences and Humanities from the WSU Graduate School.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marisa Cervantes*<\/strong> and <strong>Alana Inlow*<\/strong>, who were selected for the 2020 Alpha Kappa Delta Workshop on Teaching and Learning Fellowship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Caleb Cooley*<\/strong>, who passed his area paper exam with his paper titled \u201cThe Pathways Through Which Minority Stress and Stigma Shape Substance Use Among Sexual Minorities.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jonathan Dahlem*<\/strong>, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, \u201cToward a Conservation Sociology: Meaning, Power, and Time in Island Marble Butterfly (<em>Euchloe Ausonides Insulana<\/em>) Conservation,\u201d in March 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andrea De La Barrera Montppellier*<\/strong>, who passed her area paper exam with her paper titled \u201cAntecedents of Sex Discrimination Disputes in The Workplace: Trends and Prospects for Sociological Research.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Seon Yup Lee<\/strong>*, who passed his area paper exam with his paper titled \u201cNorms and Status Structures: Perpetuating Inequality or \u2018Virtuous Cycle\u2019?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James McCall*<\/strong>, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, \u201cEducation and Depression: A Life Course Investigation of the Sense of Control Mediator,\u201d in November 2019. <strong>McCall <\/strong>now holds a position as project manager at WSU\u2019s Social and Economic Sciences Research Center.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adam McKee*<\/strong> and <strong>Aleksey Reshetnikov*<\/strong>, were nominated by their students for the Best Global Campus Instructor Award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Namrata Ray*<\/strong> and Jugal Marfatia (graduate student in the WSU School of Economic Sciences), who were selected as one of six finalist teams for the NFL\u2019s Big Data Bowl 2020, based on the innovation, accuracy, relevance, and clarity of their submission.&nbsp;They were flown to Indianapolis to present their findings with the team officials at the Scouting Combine in February. Read about it here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/operations.nfl.com\/gameday\/analytics\/stats-articles\/2020-big-data-bowl-recap\/\">2020 Big Data Bowl Results<\/a>. <strong>Ray<\/strong> also passed her area paper exam with her paper titled \u201cNeighborhood Disadvantage and Educational Outcomes: Exploring the Causal Mechanisms of Influence.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jonathan Schreiner*<\/strong>, who successfully defend his PhD dissertation, \u201cImproving Web-Push Respondent communication in the American Community Survey.\u201d&nbsp;He is now employed as a survey statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, DC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sandte Stanley*<\/strong>, who passed her area paper exam with her paper titled \u201cThe Development of Racial Minority Mortality Disparities through Social and Structural Inequities: A Comprehensive Literature Review.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mari Amorim<\/strong>, who was awarded a New Faculty Seed Grant for her project \u201cUniversal Basic Income, Financial-Decision Making, and Socioeconomic Inequalities.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ana K. Betancourt Macias<\/strong>, sociology major, who testified in February before the Washington State legislature in support of a bill that would provide state funding for higher education to undocumented students.&nbsp;Betancourt Macias is also ASWSUV vice president and vice president of Diversity for the Washington Student Association.&nbsp;Over past two years, Macias worked with a team to develop and advocate for the bill, SB 6561. Students will be able to apply for loans in June 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson<\/strong>, who was awarded the GPSA Award of Excellence for Advising.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alair MacLean<\/strong>, who was promoted to the rank of professor at WSU.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jennifer Schwartz, Jennifer Sherman,<\/strong> and <strong>Clay Mosher<\/strong>, who were awarded a Vera Institute of Justice grant for their project \u201cEastern Washington Rural Jails Research and Policy Network.\u201d&nbsp;Read about it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2020\/01\/30\/combating-rising-incarceration-rural-areas\/?utm_source=WSUNews-enewsletter&amp;utm_campaign=wsunewsenewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\"><em>WSU Insider<\/em>: Combating rising incarceration in rural areas<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.inlander.com_spokane_wsu-2Dresearchers-2Dreceive-2Dgrant-2Dto-2Dstudy-2Drural-2Dincarceration-2Din-2Deastern-2Dwashington_Content-3Foid-3D19079965&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&amp;r=9rSmOwvnoyUd760vF1YTVW0s0PtNRh3xpvP81dJ5LfE&amp;m=Px7ULe4_timyqd3DfzYTBKUX7Htzu9jM7_88Tl9meow&amp;s=-IH2AyWFRIo0sX6pGJWWC5huMoyzckuO0vPhdZwjUtk&amp;e=\"><em>The Inlander<\/em>: WSU researchers receive grant to study rural incarceration in Eastern Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Student Publications:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caleb Cooley<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Justin Denney<\/strong> and <strong>Caleb Cooley*<\/strong>, with collaborators Zhe Zhang and Bridget Gorman of Rice University, coauthored a manuscript accepted for the forthcoming Volume 21\u00a0of <em>Advances in Medical Sociology, Sexual and Gender Minority Health<\/em> titled &#8220;Substance Use, Mental Well-Being, and Suicide Ideation by Sexual Orientation Among U.S. Adults.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alana Inlow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Erik Johnson<\/strong> (faculty member), <strong>Jennifer Schwartz<\/strong> (faculty member) and <strong>Alana Inlow*<\/strong>, coauthored \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23251042.2020.1748269\">The Criminalization of Environmental Harm: A study of the most serious environmental offenses prosecuted by the U.S. federal government, 1985-2010<\/a>,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Environmental Sociology.<\/em> DOI: 10.1080\/23251042.2020.1748269<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adam Roth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adam Roth*<\/strong> (WSU Sociology PhD \u201919, now a post-doc at University of Indiana), <strong>Justin Denney<\/strong>, and colleagues in the College of Medicine coauthored \u201cCharacteristics of Place and the Rural Disadvantage in Deaths from Highly Preventable Causes,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty Publications:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mari Amorim<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mari Amorim, <\/strong>Natasha Pilkauskas (University of Michigan), and Rachel Dunifon (Cornell University) coauthored the article \u201cHistorical trends in children living in multigenerational households: 1870-2018,\u201d accepted at <em>Demography<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dylan Bugden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dylan Bugden<\/strong> authored \u201cDoes Climate Protest Work? Partisanship, Protest, and Sentiment Pools,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Socius<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Justin Denney<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Justin Denney<\/strong> and <strong>Caleb Cooley*<\/strong> (graduate student), with collaborators Zhe Zhang and Bridget Gorman of Rice University, coauthored a manuscript accepted for the forthcoming Volume 21\u00a0of <em>Advances in Medical Sociology, Sexual and Gender Minority Health<\/em> titled &#8220;Substance Use, Mental Well-Being, and Suicide Ideation by Sexual Orientation Among U.S. Adults.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Justin Denney<\/strong>, with Zelma Tuthill and Bridget Gorman of Rice University, coauthored \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/13557858.2017.1414157\">Racial Disparities in Health and Health Behaviors Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Heterosexual Men and Women in the BRFSS-SOP<\/a>\u201d to appear in <em>Ethnicity &amp; Health<\/em>. Full text of the article is available at DOI: 10.1080\/13557858.2017.1414157 and the abstract appears below.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Justin Denney<\/strong> and Jason Boardman (University of Colorado) coauthored \u201cHearing Impairment, Household Composition, Marital Status, and Mortality Among U.S. Adults,\u201d accepted in the <em>Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Justin Denney<\/strong>, with colleagues from the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, coauthored \u201cArea deprivation amplifies racial inequities in premature mortality: Analysis of 242,667 deaths in Washington State, USA 2011-15,\u201d accepted in <em>Health &amp; Place<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katherine Dentzman &amp; Samuel Mindes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Katherine Dentzman <\/strong>and<strong> Samuel Mindes<\/strong> coauthored a peer-reviewed book chapter, \u201cLabor and the Problem of Herbicide Resistance: How Immigration Policies in the United States and Canada Impact Technology Development in Gran Crops,\u201d in <em>The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North\u00a0America<\/em>\u00a0by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacolone (eds).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don A. Dillman<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don A. Dillman<\/strong> authored the book chapter \u201cThree Decades of Advancing Survey Methodology,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>The Meeting Place<\/em>, 2nd Edition, Smith, Tom W. (ed.) by American Association for Public Opinion Research.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Don A. Dillman<\/strong> authored the paper \u201cTowards Survey Response Rate Theories that no longer pass each other like strangers in the night,\u201d accepted for publication in Philip Brenner\u2019s <em>Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological theory and applications<\/em>, Springer\u00a0Books.<strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong>, with Candis Claiborn (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), copresented \u201cWomen\u2019s Representation in Engineering: What are we Missing?\u201d at the November Science Pub in Pullman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christine Horne<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christine Horne <\/strong>and Emily Kennedy coauthored \u201cAccidental Environmentalists or Ethical Elite? The Moral Dimensions of Environmental Impact,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Poetics<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christine Horne<\/strong> and Stefanie Mollborn coauthored \u201cNorms,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Annual Review of Sociology<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christine Horne<\/strong> and Wojtek Przepiorka coauthored \u201cTechnology use and norm change in online privacy,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Information, Communication and Society<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erik Johnson &amp; Jennifer Schwartz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Erik Johnson, Jennifer Schwartz<\/strong> and <strong>Alana Inlow*<\/strong> (graduate student), coauthored \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23251042.2020.1748269\">The Criminalization of Environmental Harm: A study of the most serious environmental offenses prosecuted by the U.S. federal government, 1985-2010<\/a>,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Environmental Sociology.<\/em> DOI: 10.1080\/23251042.2020.1748269<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson<\/strong>, Kaspar Burger, and Jeylan T. Mortimer, coauthored \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssresearch.2019.102374\">Self-esteem and self-efficacy in the status attainment process and the multigenerational transmission of advantage<\/a>\u201d in <em>Social Science Research<\/em>.\u00a0DOI: 10.1016\/j.ssresearch.2019.102374<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Julie Kmec<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong> and Sheryl Skaggs coauthored &#8220;Managing Racial Diversity: The Context of State Legal and Political Cultures&#8221; accepted for publication\u00a0in <em>Social Science Research.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong>, with Candis Claiborn (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), copresented \u201cWomen\u2019s Representation in Engineering: What are we Missing?\u201d at the November Science Pub in Pullman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong> and <strong>Lindsey Trimble O&#8217;Connor<\/strong> (WSU Sociology PhD \u201912, now at CSU-Channel Islands) coauthored \u201cIs it Discrimination, or Fair and Deserved? How Beliefs about Work, Family, and Gender Shape Recognition of Family Responsibilities Discrimination,\u201d&nbsp;accepted for publication in <em>Social Currents<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong> and <strong>Sarah Morton <\/strong>(WSU Sociology PhD \u201919, currently at ENGIE Impact) along with WSU Computer Science\u00a0faculty member Matthew Taylor coauthored \u201cIt\u2019s What You Call It: Gendered Framing and Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s Interest in a Robotics Instruction Task,\u201d\u00a0accepted for publication in <em>International\u00a0Journal of Gender, Science, &amp; Technology<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clay Mosher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Clay Mosher<\/strong> and <strong>Scott Akins<\/strong> (WSU Sociology PhD \u201902, now at Oregon State University) coauthored the chapter \u201cRecreational marijuana legalization in Washington State \u2013 Benefits and harms\u201d in Tom Decorte, Simon Lenton, and Chris Wilkins (eds.) <em>Legalizing Cannabis \u2013 Experiences, Lessons, and Scenarios<\/em>. UK: Routledge. 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adam Roth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adam Roth<\/strong> (graduate student; WSU Sociology PhD \u201919, now a post-doc at University of Indiana), <strong>Justin Denney<\/strong>, and colleagues in the College of Medicine coauthored \u201cCharacteristics of Place and the Rural Disadvantage in Deaths from Highly Preventable Causes,\u201d accepted for publication in <em>Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other noteworthy accomplishments:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mari Amorim <\/strong>and Megan Doherty Bea were awarded a grant through the University of Wisconsin Fall Research Competition for their project, <em>Family Well-Being, Predatory Lending, and the American Social Safety Net. <\/em><strong>Amorim <\/strong>was also awarded funds for an External Mentor (Daniel Schneider, UC Berkeley) through the ADVANCE at WSU program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dylan Bugden <\/strong>was featured in <em>WSU Insider<\/em> as the new Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/2019\/10\/16\/new-boeing-distinguished-professor-environmental-sociology-named\/?utm_source=WSUNews-enewsletter&amp;utm_campaign=wsunewsenewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email\">Read about Dylan Bugden&#8217;s Boeing Distinguished Professor award<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Justin Denney<\/strong> joined an Expert Working Group for a Food Security Measurement Study conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerfornutrition.org\">Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition<\/a>. The study aims to develop a new measure of household food security to be used alongside existing US Department of Agriculture measurements but incorporating economic, environmental, social, and psychosocial drivers and consequences of food insecurity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alana Inlow*<\/strong> presented an invited lecture on the film <em>The Last Black Man in San Francisco <\/em>during WSU\u2019s 33<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual MLK Program: Power + Love, Film Series, and participated in a discussion as an invited panelist after the film.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Washington State Magazine<\/em> featured the work of <strong>Julie Kmec <\/strong>and <strong>Clay Mosher<\/strong> in separate articles (\u201cI Scientist\u201d and \u201cCannabis in WA State,\u201d respectively) in the Spring 2020 edition. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson<\/strong> was among five panelists who participated in the \u201cPathways to Leadership: Women Leaders and Their Stories\u201d event at WSU in November. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyevergreen.com\/67321\/news\/panel-of-leaders-share-stories\">Read about the Pathway panel in an article at the Evergreen<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong> was awarded a Research Enhancement Opportunity (REO) Award from the College of Arts and Sciences to support the development of her NSF proposal this fall.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Clay Mosher<\/strong> and <strong>Scott Akins\u2019s<\/strong> book, <em>In the Weeds<\/em>, was reviewed in <em>Social Forces<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/sf\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/sf\/soaa003\/5721131\">Read the review of <em>In the Weeds<\/em> in <em>Social Forces<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sarah Whitley<\/strong> completed the LIFT (Learn. Inspire. Foster. Transform.) Faculty Fellowship, a student success initiative at WSU.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sarah Whitley<\/strong> and <strong>Julie Kmec<\/strong> were selected to join the WSU President\u2019s Teaching Academy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anna Zamora-Kapoor\u2019s<\/strong> research on art museums has been covered in several media outlets:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__knowledge.insead.edu_leadership-2Dorganisations_what-2Delite-2Dmuseums-2Dcan-2Dteach-2Dus-2Dabout-2Drunning-2Da-2Dcreative-2Dbusiness-2D13326&amp;d=DwMFAg&amp;c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&amp;r=9rSmOwvnoyUd760vF1YTVW0s0PtNRh3xpvP81dJ5LfE&amp;m=Px7ULe4_timyqd3DfzYTBKUX7Htzu9jM7_88Tl9meow&amp;s=70t-yfUwTdE7sv7pY4ApE8bfzFTjRH2N7qLGweXtAuM&amp;e=\">What Elite Museums Can Teach Us About Running a Creative Business<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anna Zamora-Kapoor\u2019s<\/strong> pilot grant application, \u201cSex differences in obesity, cognitive performance and vascular brain injury in American Indians: Evidence from the Strong Heart Stroke Study,\u201d was funded by the Native Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. Amount: $25,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Department of Sociology Colloquium Series<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"396\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3221\/2020\/05\/Colloquium_sp20-396x264.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Schneider is standing up at the front of a room near a projector screen. He is looking at the screen and talking with one hand up in the air, gesturing toward the photo on the screen. There are several people looking at him, sitting down around a conference table.\" class=\"wp-image-1780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3221\/2020\/05\/Colloquium_sp20-396x264.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3221\/2020\/05\/Colloquium_sp20-792x528.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3221\/2020\/05\/Colloquium_sp20-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3221\/2020\/05\/Colloquium_sp20-990x660.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3221\/2020\/05\/Colloquium_sp20.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Dan Schneider giving a talk at the WSU Sociology Spring 2020 Colloquium Series in February.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Before the spring semester was disrupted by the current health crisis, the Department of Sociology Colloquium series was in full swing.&nbsp; Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/daniel-schneider\">Daniel Schneider<\/a> (Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley) visited at the end of February to deliver a talk. His research focuses on family demography, inequality, and precarious employment. He presented his research on unpredictable work scheduling in US service sector jobs and its deleterious consequences. Given recent events, his work has taken on even more relevance and importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thank you to our donors!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Thank you<\/strong> <\/span>to all of our generous donors this year who made it possible for the Department of Sociology to continue a speaker series and other programming, to award scholarships to both undergraduate and graduate students, and to support the professional development and research projects of our graduate students.&nbsp; If you are interested in supporting WSU Sociology this year, you can donate online (<a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.wsu.edu\/give\/?fund=afd48b6b-eb9f-4ba7-8251-26b7c60b5fa4&amp;utm_source=print&amp;utm_medium=brochure&amp;utm_campaign=sociology-newsletter\">Washington State University Foundation: Department of Sociology Excellence Fund<\/a>) or contact the department for additional options (<a href=\"mailto:soc@wsu.edu\">soc@wsu.edu<\/a>). The department continues to seek support for the Dillman Fellowship to support graduate student original research (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.wsu.edu\/dillman-fellowship\">College of Arts &amp; Sciences Don Dillman Fellowship in Sociology<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2119,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1801\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.wsu.edu\/socnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}