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More than vacation<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Faculty, students keep busy summer schedule<\/em><\/h4>\n

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Summer is often thought of as vacation time, but for Sociology faculty and graduate students, it is peak time for engagement outside the University and the intellectual renewal that goes with it. Although these efforts continue throughout the year, they are most prevalent over the summer months.<\/p>\n

These engagements provide insight into the diversity of ideas being investigated in student and faculty research. The learning from these exchanges are likely to become important aspects of courses and seminars taught during the coming year.<\/p>\n

This report also shows our department\u2019s involvement in professional organizations, which fosters the meeting of professionals with similar interests. Despite the increasingly easy electronic access we now have to ideas generated by others, conferences such as the one mentioned here have never been more important for sharing and picking up new ideas to guide research and instruction.<\/p>\n

Graduate Students<\/em><\/p>\n

Valerie Adrian<\/strong> presented a paper, \u201cFinding Empathy on Craigslist: Using Technology to Teach Social Problems\u201d in August at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual conference held in Chicago. She also presided over a roundtable session, \u201cFamily Leave and Flexible Work Arrangements\u201d for the Section on Occupations, Organizations and Work, at the ASA annual meeting.<\/p>\n

Ashley Colby <\/strong>presented preliminary results from her dissertation, \u201cStructures and Meanings in Subsistence Food Production\u201d at the Society for the Study of Social Problems conference and the ASA Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) section 25th<\/sup> Anniversary mini-conference in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Lauren Scott, <\/strong>and Rayna Sage (PhD, 2012) <\/strong>presented a paper, \u201cEmotional Labor, Healthy Boundaries, and Self-Care in Rural Human Service Work\u201d at the Rural Sociological Society annual meetings.<\/p>\n

Jon Schreiner <\/strong>presented a paper, \u201cMeasurement Errors that Reduce Accuracy of Racial and Ethnic Identification in the U.S. Decennial Census,\u201d at the ASA Annual meeting in Chicago. He also presented “Hopes and Expectations: The Impact of DNA Ancestry Testing on Identity\u201d at the SKAT section mini-conference.<\/p>\n

Anthony Vega <\/strong>spent the summer months in a paid internship at the USDA Economic Research Service in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Annika Anderson (PhD, 2015), <\/strong>who will be joining the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino in September, presented a paper titled \u201cRace\/Ethnicity, Cognitive Transformation and Desistance from Crime,\u201d at the annual meeting of the Justice Studies Association in Bridgewater, Mass.<\/p>\n

Pierce Greenberg <\/strong>presented a paper entitled \u201cTowards a Resource-Based Environmental Inequality: A Case Study of Coal Waste Impoundments in Appalachia\u201d at an ASA session on dimensions of rural inequality. He also presented a paper entitled \u201cSocial Movements Research and Access to Information: Insights and Applications\u201d at the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Workshop at Northwestern University prior to ASA. In October, he is conducting a workshop at the Association for Humanist Sociology annual conference in Portland with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nigel Jaquiss titled \u201cUsing Public Records Research to Enact Social Change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jarred Williams <\/strong>is presenting a paper, \u201cA Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Prison Closures on Imprisonment Rates and New Court Commitments, 2000-2013,\u201d at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in November in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Faculty <\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer Givens<\/strong> participated in a Statistical Horizons May seminar in on Structural Equation Modeling in Atlanta. In August, she presented a paper, \u201cGlobal Integration and the Carbon Intensity of well-being: A Cross National Analysis 1990-2011″ at an ASA roundtable session.<\/p>\n

Clay Mosher<\/strong>, in collaboration with the Clark County Juvenile Court, received a grant of $100,000 from the Washington State Partnership on Juvenile Justice to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. He also completed an evaluation of the Clark County Juvenile Court\u2019s \u201cJuvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative that was presented to local judges, juvenile justice system staff and county commissioners on June 19th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Katrina Leupp <\/strong>presented a paper titled \u201cMental Health, Social Roles and the Gendered Life Course\u201d at the ASA annual meeting.<\/p>\n

Emily Huddart Kennedy<\/strong> presented a paper, \u201cSmall-p politics: Political Apathy and Civic Life in the Eat-Local Movement\u201d at the ASA meeting, and co-taught (with Kari Norgaard and Julie Bacon) a workshop for the Environment and Technology section, \u201cTeaching Race, Gender, and Colonialism within Environmental Sociology.\u201c In addition, Kennedy<\/strong> received an ADVANCE external mentor grant to work with Dr. Norgaard and is co-principal investigator with Ann Dale on a $290,000 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n

Raoul L\u00ed<\/span>evanos<\/strong> and graduate student Pierce Greenberg <\/strong>presented \u201cTreadmill of Production and Rural Political Ecology: The Case of Kentucky Coal Extraction and Waste\u201d at The Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY in February.<\/p>\n

In June, Raoul L\u00ed<\/span>evanos<\/strong> presented a seminar for The Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington in Seattle: entitled, \u201cRace, Deprivation, and Immigrant Isolation: The Spatial Demography of Air-Toxic Clusters in the United States.\u201d L\u00ed<\/span>evanos<\/strong> also presented, \u201cWithin the Master\u2019s House: Cumulative Impact, Precaution, and Contradictory State Spaces in Environmental Justice Policy\u201d at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, in June, and made a presentation on the same topic at SKAT 25: New Directions after a Quarter-Century of the Sociology of Science, Knowledge, and Technology,\u201d an August mini-conference of the American Sociological Association Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section, in Chicago, IL. He also presented, \u201cSocio-spatial Dimensions of Water Injustice: The Distribution of Surface Water Toxic Releases in California\u2019s Bay-Delta,\u201d at an Environment and Technology Section Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.<\/p>\n

Erik Johnson<\/strong> and Phillip Schwadel presented \u201cThe Social Origins of Evangelical Protestants\u2019 Opposition to Environmental Spending,\u201d at the American Sociological Association August meeting. Johnson<\/strong> also presented \u201cEnvironmental Movements\u201d at a roundtable for the Section on Environment and Technology.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Sherman <\/strong>presented a paper, \u201cNot Friends with the Right People: Gentrification, Stratification, and Marginalization in Amenity-Rich Rural Washington,\u201d at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Madison, Wis. She also co-chaired the RSS Gender Research Interest Group that met during the meeting. Sherman also became a Fellow with the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) of the International Social Science Council for 2015-2018. In addition, she has received a $3,000 from the ASA\u2019s Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy Community Action Research grant for transcription of interview data on \u201cAmenity Tourism and Inequality in Rural Washington,\u201d collected during her just completed sabbatical.<\/p>\n

Julie Kmec<\/strong> was informed that a previously published article, \u201cThe \u2018State\u2019 of Equal Employment Opportunity Law and Managerial Gender Diversity,\u201d is one of 10 finalists, for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Aware for Excellence in Work-Family Research. She was also appointed section editor of the social stratification section of the journal, Sociology Compass,<\/em><\/u> and invited to join the editorial board of another journal, Research in the Sociology of Work.<\/em><\/p>\n

Alair MacLean<\/strong>, Meredith Kleykamp, and John Robert Warren presented: \u201cHistorical Change in Labor Market Outcomes among Veterans, 1967-2013\u201d at the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility in Tilburg, Netherlands in May. MacLean<\/strong> also presented, \u201cRace and Class in the Iraq-Era Armed Forces\u201d at ASA annual meeting in August. In addition, she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Schwartz<\/strong> will be presenting \u201cExamining 21st<\/sup> Century Corporate Financial Fraud: Preliminary Findings from SEC Filings\u201d this November in Washington, D.C., at the annual American Society of Criminology meetings.<\/p>\n

James F. Short, Jr. <\/strong>and Lori Hughes (PhD, 2003)<\/strong> are presenting a paper, \u201cFemale Gangs and the Roles of Females in the Lives of Male Gang Members in Chicago, 1959-1962,\u201d at the American Society of Criminology meetings in November. Short <\/strong>will also chair an author meets critics session at those metings to discuss \u201cIraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War” (Cambridge University Press by John HAGAN, Josh Kaqiser and Anne Hanson) and \u201cRepresenting Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violationis in Darfur,\u201d (University of Chicago Press by Joachim J. Savelsberg). These works note the operation of group processes in these locales that are similar to group processes in street gang violence that came out of Short\u2019s earlier gang studies in Chicago.<\/p>\n

In April, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson <\/strong>co-authored a presentation, \u201cParental Education and Child Well-Being: A Prospective Longitudinal Study,\u201d and a poster, \u201cOccupational Uncertainty and the Transition to Cohabitation,\u201d at the annual conference of the Population Association of America. In October, she will present a paper, \u201cThe \u2018Bank of Mom and Dad\u201d: Patterns of Financial Support to Young Adults in Tough Economic Times,\u201d at the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies in Dublin, Ireland. She also served on the ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course Committee for the Outstanding Publication Award and the ASA Social Psychology Section Cooley-Mead Award Selection Committee.<\/p>\n

Christine Horne<\/strong> gave a plenary address, \u201cSocial Norms and Institutions,\u201d at Congressi Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, in Ascona, Switzerland, in May.<\/p>\n

Don A. Dillman, <\/strong>presented a paper, \u201cMistakes Being Made in the Rush to Web Surveys\u201d at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. At the June meeting of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, he was the discussant for commissioned papers on the challenges associated with the use of smartphones for responding to surveys. He also gave a keynote address, \u201cMixed-mode Solutions to the People Problems Facing Web Surveys,\u201d to WEBDATANET, a European Union Conference on internet data collection methodologies in Salamanca, Spain.<\/p>\n

Michael Sullivan (PhD 1984)<\/strong>, Caren Leong, Candice Churchwell (all from Nexant, Inc. in San Francisco) and Don A. Dillman<\/strong>, presented a paper, \u201cMeasurement and cost effects of pushing Household survey respondents to the web for surveys of electricity and gas customers in the United States,\u201d in July at the European Survey Research Association biennial conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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