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News & Announcements
Sociology Shines at ASA 2024
Jean Beaman (Faculty) has been elected the incoming chair of the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section.
Thomas DeGloma (Faculty)
Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities, has won both The Theory Prize (for outstanding contribution to sociological theory), American Sociological Association, Theory Section, 2024 and The Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2024.
Heba Gowayed’s (Faculty)
Heba’s book Refuge has received the 2024 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from American Sociological Association’s Racial and Ethnic Minorities section’s 2024.
Jessica Hardie (Faculty)
Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times, was awarded an Honorable Mention for the ASA Family Section’s 2024 William J. Goode Book Award.
Robert C. Smith (Faculty)
Won the American Sociological Association’s 2024 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.
Kristen Miller
Was awarded the American Sociological Society’s 2024-2025 Minority Fellowship .($20,000) for her dissertation on Black biking subcultures.
Joseph van der Naald
2024 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG)
For his dissertation titled, Organizing Outside and Under the Law: A Comparative Case Study of Public Sector Unionism in Michigan and Ohio, 1960-1985.
Anna Gjika (‘20)
When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age won the 2024 Distinguished Book Award of ASA’s Sex and Gender section.
Robin Isserles (‘02)
Won the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching award.
Job Appointments 2023-2024
Mara Getz Sheftel (‘21)
Started a tenure track position at the Rutgers School of Public Health and the Rutgers Institute for Health.
Jonathan Zisook (‘21)
Was appointed Assistant Teaching Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Beiyi Hu (‘24)
Accepted a visiting assistant professor offer at Oberlin College, starting in Fall 2024
Morgan Richards-Melamdir (‘24)
Was recently promoted to Sector Lead for Poverty and Inequality at the research firm Global Insight, where she has been working for the past few years.
Dakota Ross-Cabrera (‘24)
Started a new job as a user researcher at the dating app Hinge. Her dissertation focuses on relationships and dating app experiences for Latinx emerging adults.
Edwin Grimsley (‘23)
Accepted an assistant professor offer at Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College, starting in fall 2023.
Xuemeng Li (‘23)
Accepted doctoral lecturer offer at Hunter College, starting in fall 2023.
Lorraine Torres-Colon(‘23)
Accepted Latino Social Science Postdoctoral Fellow offer at Latinx Research Center at University of California, Berkeley starting in fall 2023.
Kasey Zapatka (‘23)
Accepted a postdoc offer in the Department of Sociology and Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley starting summer 2023
Juliana de Castro Galvão (‘23)
Accepted a postdoc offer at Oxford University.
Benjamin Haber (‘17)
Accepted tenure-track assistant professor position at Wesleyan University
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