2016 News
October
Graduate Student Featured in an Article
October 28, 2016
June
2016 CASTAC Graduate Student Paper Prize
June 1, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Kellie Owens has been awarded the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing at the American Anthropological Association's Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper "Too Much of a Good Thing?: American Childbirth, Intentional Ignorance, and the Boundaries of Responsible Knowledge."
2016 AHS Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award
June 1, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Aldon Morris's book, The Scholar Denied, has been selected as co-winner for the Association for Humanist Sociology 2016 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award!
Open Position: Associate or Full Professor in Applied Quantitative Sociology
June 1, 2016
Open Position: Assistant Professor in Applied Quantitative Sociology
June 1, 2016
May
2016 Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award
May 30, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that David Peterson has been awarded the 2016 Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award by the Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the ASA for "All That is Solid: Bench-Building at the Frontiers of Two Experimental Sciences." American Sociological Review 80(6): 1201-25 (2015)
2016 Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship
May 27, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Stefan Vogler has been awarded a 2016 Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship by the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the ASA for his dissertation on “Legal Bureaucracies and the Production of Sexual Knowledge.”
2016 ASA Dissertation Award
May 23, 2016
Congratulations to Assistant Sociology Professor Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz, who has received the 2016 ASA Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Temporal Politics of the Future: National Latino Civil Rights Advocacy, Demographic Statistics, and the 'Browning' of America"!
2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow
May 20, 2016
The Department of Sociology would like to congratulate Anthony Johnson on winning a 2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow.
2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow
May 20, 2016
The Department of Sociology would like to congratulate Jordan Conwell on winning a 2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow.
May 17, 2016 – from Library of Congress
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Bruce Carruthers has been named the Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
May 16, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Atinuke (Tinu) Adediran has been awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. The Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded to individuals who, in the judgment of the reviewers, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Presidential Fellowship
May 11, 2016
The Department of Sociology would like to congratulate Robin Bartram on winning a Northwestern Presidential Fellowship starting next academic year.
Charlotte W. Newcombe & Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships
May 6, 2016
April
Graduate Student Publications
April 1, 2016
March
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
March 1, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce that Margarita Rayzberg and Alka Menon have both received Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants from the Science, Technology, and Society program of the NSF.
February
"Investigating Conversions to Islam: Which Approaches in the Social Sciences?" Conference
February 19, 2016
Northwestern graduate student Juliette Galonnier co-organized a major international conference entitled "Investigating Conversions to Islam: Which Approaches in Social Sciences?" held on February 15th and 16th, 2016 at Sciences Po, in Paris, France. The bilingual (French and English) conference welcomed researchers and PhD students from a wide range of Western countries: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, the UK, the USA, Canada, and Australia.
February 4, 2016
January
Alumni Funds for Second Year Paper Research
January 4, 2016
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the recipients of our newly established Alumni Funds for Second-Year Paper Research. This award was officially established in 2015 by the Department Chair and Director of Graduate Studies and is directly funded by continuous and new contributions from our alumni. See our Alumni page for our award recipients’ descriptions of their research.
