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Our faculty and graduate students continue to have success in many different ways, from editorial responsibilities to grants and publications. Accomplishments we learned about since the beginning of Fall Semester, 2014 are reported here. This report supplements the one included in the Summer 2014 Issue of Sociology News<\/em>.<\/p>\n We are especially pleased with the variety of journals in which research work has been reported and the many instances of collaboration between current and former students. Current department members’ names are listed in bold. Former graduate students are also listed in bold followed by their degree and year of completion, where appropriate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Julie Kmec<\/strong> was selected to co-edit the Social\u00a0Stratification\u00a0section of the online journal\u00a0Sociology Compass<\/em>. Her 3-year term as co-editor began January 2015.<\/p>\n Christine Horne<\/strong> is co-principal investigator on a three year, $1,260,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that focuses on the resilience of the electricity and telecommunications systems. Raoul L\u00ed<\/span>evanos<\/strong> is a faculty collaborator on this grant.<\/p>\n Clay<\/strong> Mosher<\/strong> collaborated with the Clark County Juvenile Court and Department of Community Services to apply for a Juvenile Drug Court Enhancement grant. The three-year, $975,000 grant was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It will allow for enhancements to the Juvenile Recovery Court, such as job-readiness skills, expanded mentoring and a full-time psychologist.\u00a0 Mosher will evaluate the impact of the enhancements.<\/p>\n Clay Mosher <\/strong>also received a grant of $15,000 from the Clark County Juvenile Court to evaluate the court\u2019s \u201cJuvenile Detention Alternative Initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n Joe Kremer <\/strong>(PhD expected May 2014) accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.<\/p>\n Feng Hao <\/strong>(PhD expected, May 2015) received a \u201cChinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad\u201d scholarship for $6,000.<\/p>\n Don A. Dillman <\/strong>provided an invited tutorial on Designing Mixed-Mode Surveys at the 6th<\/sup> Annual Korea Internet Methodology Conference in Daejeon, South Korea, sponsored by Statistics Korea in September. In October he taught a two-day short course on Visual and Motivational Issues associated with designing mixed-mode surveys at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany.<\/p>\n A number of WSU faculty, former faculty, graduate students and alumni met at the American Society of Criminology meetings in November, 2014. At the annual WSU luncheon were: Jennifer Schwartz, Clay Mosher, Jim Short, Jarred Williams<\/strong>, former\u00a0faculty Charles Tittle <\/strong>and Mark Stafford<\/strong>, and alumni Laurie Hughes <\/strong>and Lisa Brody. <\/strong><\/p>\n Graduate students Hong Zhang<\/strong> and Michael Lengefeld<\/strong> received fellowships from the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service. Zhang\u2019s fellowship support will go towards a study of Asian foreign-born STEM workers and how they interpret their working experiences and career prospects in the US. Lengefeld will use his fellowship support to analyze the environmental impacts of nuclear technologies in the context of military and economic organizations.<\/p>\n Joseph Astorino<\/strong> attended the Under Western Skies Conference held at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada, September 9-12, 2014. He chaired a session titled “Science, Culture, and Planning”, and gave both an oral presentation and a poster on the topic of his dissertation. The talk was entitled: “Scientific Cultures”, while the poster was titled “How Do You Map Scientific Cultures?\u201d<\/p>\n Cutler, Kristin A<\/strong>. (PhD 2012 and Sociology Instructor) 2014. \u201cPrescription Stimulants are \u2018A Okay\u2019: Applying Neutralization Theory to College Students\u2019 Non-medical Use of Prescription Stimulants.\u201d Journal of\u00a0<\/em>American College<\/em>\u00a0Health,<\/em>\u00a062(7): 478-486.<\/p>\n Dodoo, F. Nii-Amoo, Christine Horne<\/strong>, and Naa Dodua Dodoo. 2014. \u201cLab Experiments in Demographic Fieldwork: Understanding Gender Dynamics in Africa.\u201d Demographic Research<\/em> 31:1417-1430.<\/p>\n Dodoo, F. Nii-Amoo, Christine Horne<\/strong>, and Adriana Biney. 2014. \u201cDoes Education Mitigate the Negative Effects of Bridewealth on Women\u2019s Reproductive Autonomy.\u201d Genus<\/em> LXX(1):77-97.<\/p>\n Edwards, Michelle L.<\/strong> (PhD 2014), Don A. Dillman<\/strong> and Jolene D. Smyth (PhD, 2007)<\/strong>. 2014. <\/em>\u201cAn Experimental Test of the Effects of Survey Sponsorship on Internet and Mail Survey Response.\u201d Public Opinion Quarterly<\/em>. 78 (3): 734-750<\/p>\n Givens, Jennifer E<\/strong>. 2014. \u201cSociology: Drivers of Climate Change Beliefs.\u201d Nature Climate Change<\/em> 4(12):1051-1052.<\/p>\n Givens, Jennifer E<\/strong>., and Andrew K. Jorgenson. 2014. \u201cGlobal Integration and Carbon Emissions, 1965-2005.\u201d In Overcoming Global Inequalities<\/em>, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein, Christopher Chase-Dunn, and Christian Suter. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press.<\/p>\n Givens, Jennifer E<\/strong>. 2014. \u201cGlobal Climate Change Negotiations, the Treadmill of Destruction, and World Society: An Analysis of Kyoto Protocol Ratification.\u201d International Journal of Sociology<\/em> 44(2):7-36.<\/p>\n Steven Hitlin and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson<\/strong>. Forthcoming. \u201cReconceptualizing Agency within the Life Course: The Power of Looking Ahead.\u201d\u00a0 American Journal of Sociology<\/em>.<\/p>\n Horne, Christine, Brice Darras, Elyse Bean<\/strong>, Anurag Srivistava, and Scott Frickel. Forthcoming 2015. \u201cPrivacy Norms and the Smart Grid.\u201d Social Science Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick. <\/strong>Forthcoming, Young People and the Great Recession: Work, Family, Health and Social Attitudes<\/em>, edited by Ingrid Schoon and John Bynner.<\/p>\n Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick. <\/strong>Forthcoming: \u201cSociology of Adolescence.\u201d\u00a0 International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science 2nd<\/sup> Edition,<\/em> edited by James D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier.<\/p>\n Jorgenson, Andrew K. and Jennifer E. Givens.<\/strong> 2014. \u201cEconomic Globalization and Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis of Individuals within 37 Nations.\u201d Environment & Behavior<\/em> 46:848-871.<\/p>\n Kennedy, E.H.<\/strong>, H. Krahn, and N.T. Krogman. 2015. “Are we counting what counts? A closer examination of environmental concern, pro-environmental behavior, and carbon footprint.” Local Environment<\/em>, 20(2): 220-236. Impact factor: 1.213.<\/p>\n Kennedy, E.H.<\/strong>, H. Krahn, and N.T. Krogman. 2014. “Egregious emitters: Disproportionality in household carbon footprints.” Environment & Behavior<\/em>, 46(5): 535-555. Impact factor: 2.013.<\/p>\n Kmec, Julie A.,<\/strong> Shanyuan Foo<\/strong>, and Amy S. Wharton<\/strong>. \u201cAcademic Parents and Pro-Work Behaviors: How Does Departmental Culture Matter?\u201d Pp. 113-125 in Kris DeWelde and Andi Stepnik (eds.) Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education<\/em>. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.<\/p>\n Mosher, Clayton<\/strong> and Scott Akins<\/strong> (PhD 2002)\u00a0<\/strong>2014. \u201cFrom \u2018Just Say No!\u2019 to \u2018Well, Maybe\u2019\u2014The War on Drugs & Sensible Alternatives.\u201d\u00a0 Pp. 121-144 in Criminal Justice Policy<\/em>, Stacy L. Mallicoat and Christine L. Gardiner Eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n Mosher, Clayton <\/strong>and Scott Akins <\/strong>(PhD 2002). 2014. \u201cMedical Marijuana” in Science and Politics: An A-to-Z Guide to <\/em>Issues and Controversies<\/em>, Brent Steel Ed. CQ Press.<\/p>\n Frickel, Scott, Rebekah Torcasso, Annika Anderson<\/strong>.\u00a0Forthcoming\u00a0June 2015. “The Organization of Expert Activism: Shadow Mobilization in Two Social Movements.” Mobilization<\/em>.<\/p>\n Johnson, Erik W.<\/strong> 2014. \u201cToward international comparative research on associational activity: Variation in the form and focus of voluntary associations in four nations.\u201d Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly<\/em> 43(2S): 163S-181S.<\/p>\n Caudell, Mark, Rotolo, Thomas<\/strong>, and Mulye Grima. Forthcoming. \u201cInformal Lending Networks in Rural Ethiopia.\u201d Social Networks<\/em><\/p>\n Rotolo, Thomas<\/strong>, John Wilson, and Nathan Dietz. Forthcoming. \u201cThe Impact of the Foreclosure Crisis on Volunteering: A Fed-Effects Analysis.\u201d Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly<\/em><\/p>\n Rotolo, Thomas<\/strong> and John Wilson. 2014. \u201cSocial Heterogeneity and Volunteering in U.S. Cities.\u201d Sociological Forum<\/em> 29:429-452<\/p>\n Sage, Rayna<\/strong> (PhD 2013) and Jennifer Sherman<\/strong>. 2014. \u201c\u2018There are no Jobs Here\u2019: Opportunity Structures, Moral Judgment, and Educational Trajectories in the Rural Northwest.\u201d Chapter 5 in Dynamics of Social Class, Race, and Place in Rural Education<\/em>, Craig B. Howley, Aimee Howley, & Jerry Johnson, editors. Information Age Press: 67-94.<\/p>\n Schwartz, Jennifer<\/strong>, Meredith Williams <\/strong>(PhD 2012), and Katie Clemons<\/strong>. 2014. \u201cThirty years of sex stratification in violent crime partnerships and groups.\u201d Feminist Criminology<\/em>. 10(1): 60-91.<\/p>\n Sherman, Jennifer.<\/strong> 2014. \u201cRural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Underutilized Safety Net.” Chapter 27 in Rural America in a Globalizing World: Problems and Prospects for the 2010s<\/em>, (eds.) Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen & Elizabeth Ransom, editors. West Virginia Press: 523-539.<\/p>\n Smith, Chad L. <\/strong>(PhD 2005), <\/strong>Gregory Hooks, and Michael Lengefeld. <\/strong>2014. \u201cThe War on Drugs in Colombia: The Environment, The Treadmill of Destruction and Risk-Transfer Militarism.\u201d Journal of World Systems Research<\/em>. 20(2): 185-206.<\/p>\n Stern, Michael J. <\/strong>(PhD 2006), Ipek Bilgen and Don A. Dillman<\/strong>. 2014. The State Of Survey Methodology: Challenges, Dilemmas ,and new Frontiers in the Era of the Tailored Design. Field Methods<\/em> (August) 26: 284-30<\/p>\n Wharton, Amy S<\/strong>. 2014. \u201cInteractive Service Work.\u201d Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment<\/em>. Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried, and Edward Granter (eds.). London: Sage.<\/p>\n Wharton, Amy S<\/strong>. and Mychel Estevez.<\/strong> \u201cDepartment Chairs\u2019 Perspectives on Work, Family, and Gender: Pathways for Transformation.\u201d Advances in Gender Research<\/em> 19: 131-150.<\/p>\n Wharton, Amy S<\/strong>. Presidential Address: \u201c(Un)Changing Institutions: Work, Family, and Gender in the New Economy.\u201d Sociological Perspectives<\/em> (January 2015).<\/p>\n Wharton, Amy S<\/strong>. \u201cSociology of Work and Emotions.\u201d Pp. 335-358 in Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions<\/em>,Vol. II, Jan E. Stets and Jonathon H. Turner, Eds. Amsterdam: Springer<\/p>\n Wharton, Amy S<\/strong>. “The Past, Present, and Future of a Regional Sociological Association.\u201d The American Sociologist<\/em> 45: 327-333. http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12108-014-9233-x<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Department accomplishments: Fall\/Winter 2014-15 Our faculty and graduate students continue to have success in many different ways, from editorial responsibilities to grants and publications. Accomplishments we learned about since the beginning of Fall Semester, 2014 are reported here. This report supplements the one included in the Summer 2014 Issue of Sociology News. 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