ROJAS WINS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
Fabio Rojas will spend the next two academic years at the University of Michigan as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research. His book From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline, was recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Bravo!
CHRISTI M. SMITH WINS FELLOWSHIP
Graduate student Christi Smith has won the 2008 Wells Graduate Fellowship – congratulations! The Wells Graduate Fellowship, named after Herman B Wells, honors a student "who demonstrate[s] the qualities for which Chancellor Wells was renowned: leadership abilities, academic excellence, character, social consciousness, and generosity of spirit." Christi’s sponsors are Pam Walters, Brian Steensland and DGS Art Alderson. A graduate student in Sociology has now won this prestigious prize two times: Emily Fairchild was honored in 2007.
BLOUIN WINS TEACHING AWARD
Graduate student David Blouin will receive the Lieber Associate Instructor Award for teaching excellence at Founders Day ceremonies on March 30, 2008. At least one graduate student from Sociology has won this University-wide award in each the last four years, a remarkable testament to the outstanding quality of AI teaching in our Department. Congratulations David!
ETHAN MICHELSON WINS OUTSTANDING JUNIOR FACULTY AWARD
Dean of Faculties Jeanne Sept and Vice Provost for Research Sarita Soni have announced that Ethan Michelson is a recipient of the 2007-08 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. This is among the most competitive and prestigious honors awarded by the Bloomington Campus. Ethan will be able to enjoy some research funds and summer salary – and, of course, the prestige!
POWELL NAMED RUDY PROFESSOR
Brian Powell has been awarded the title of Rudy Professor of Sociology, effective January 2008. For the last five years, Brian has been the Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor of Sociology, a title that has since been given to Eliza Pavalko. The Rudy Professorship will provide Brian with annual funds to aid his research, for as long as he remains at IU. Congratulations, Brian! In addition, Brian Powell’s 2006 paper in Social Forces, co-authored with Lala Steelman and IU-PhD Bob Carini won the Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA Section on Aging and the Lifecourse.
STRYKER RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Sheldon Stryker received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Self and Identity.
MCLEOD TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jane McLeod will deliver the Keynote Address and the 11th International Conference on Social Stress Research at Santa Fe in May 2008.
CORNELL WINS CORNELIS LELY PRIZE
Laurel Cornell won the Cornelis Lely Prize for the “best historical paper with relevance to contemporary policy questions” from the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. The prize was awarded at a recent meeting in Helmond, The Netherlands. The title of Laure’s prize-winning paper is “How did Roads in the United States Come to be So Large?”
PESCOSOLIDO WINS HANS O. MAUKSCH AWARD
Distinguished Professor Bernice A. Pescosolido won the Hans O. Mauksch Award from the ASA Section on Teaching and Learning, at the annual meetings in New York in August 2007.
ROBINSON'S PAPER HONORED...TWICE
Rob Robinson’s paper in the April 2006 American Sociological Review, co-authored with Nancy Davis, won the Distinguished Research Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. It also won the best paper prize from the ASA Section on Religion.
STEENSLAND WINS GRANT
Brian Steensland has been awarded a Research Travel Grant from the College Arts & Humanities Institute (CAHI) to support his project on “Does God Love Free Markets?” Brian’s recent paper in the American Journal of Sociology won the 2007 Best Article Award from the ASA Section on the Sociology of Culture.
WALTERS WINS GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
Pam Walters has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2007-08 – hooray!
ARMSTRONG SELECTED AS RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FELLOW
Elizabeth Armstrong has been selected as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University), and will spend the 2007-08 academic year in Cambridge. Congratulations!
PAVALKO NAMED EDITOR
Professor Eliza Pavalko has been named the new editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
