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Association of Black Sociologists President
Professor Juan Battle, Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center, served as President of the Association of Black Sociologists in 2006-2007.

ESS ( Eastern Sociological Society) President
Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center, who also serves as the Executive Officer (Chair) of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Program in Sociology, served as President of The Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) in 2006-07.
Check out the ESS website: http://www.essnet.org

ASA (American Sociological Association) President
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, served as the 97th President of the ASA.

Jan Yager (the former Jan Barkas), (Sociology, 1983) was interviewed on CBS News' SUNDAY MORNING show on November 2nd related to her book, FRIENDSHIFTS: The Power of Friendship and How it Shapes Our Lives. The 6th foreign edition of FRIENDSHIFTS is going to be a Korean translation. Jan's book, WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS, was recommended in the Dear Amy column in THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS is being translated into 12 foreign languages.
For more information, visit Jan's websites:
http://www.janyager.com
http://www.whenfriendshiphurts.com

Okyun Kwon, Phd 2000, was recently appointed a senior researcher for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His book, Buddhist and Protestant Korean Immigrants, was published by LFB Scholarly publishing.
  
Nancy Lopez, Graduate Center Sociology alumn who has been appointed assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, has a new book coming out entitled: HOPEFUL GIRLS, TROUBLED BOYS: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. The book is being published by Routledge, and is expected to be out before the end of 2002. Professor Lopez can be contacted by email at: nlopez@unm.edu, or by phone at: 505-277-3101.
   
Stephen Duncombe, CUNY Graduate Center Class of 1996, has published his second book entitled CULTURAL RESISTANCE: A Reader. More information on this book can be found at: http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/d-titles/duncombe_cultural_resist.shtml.
Stephen Duncombe has received tenure at New York University, where he teaches history and politics of media and culture in the interdisciplinary Gallatin School. Currently, he is co-writing a book with CUNY Sociology ABD Andrew Mattson on "The Bobbed-Haired Bandit" (a once famous, now forgotten, female criminal/media celebrity of NYC in the 1920's). The book will be published by Pantheon/Vintage and is expected to be out next year.
   
Jennifer Parker Talwar, who received her Ph.D. from the Sociology Program in 1996, has just published her first book-- FAST FOOD, FAST TRACK: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream-- an examination of the experiences and likely futures of different immigrant groups who work in McDonalds and Burger King franchises in New York City.  Under contract with Westview Press, Jenn turned her dissertation, which was based on many, in-depth interviews with workers and managers in these restaurants, as well as an analysis of the labor markets and immigration, into a trade book. The book is designed for both undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas and is a good example of qualitative research. You can read a positive review of the book, published in the Wall Street Journal (of all places) on February 28, 2002, by clicking here. The proud dissertation committee consisted of Sharon Zukin (chair), Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, and Peter Kwong.
--By Sharon Zukin.  
   
Bruce D. Haynes, CUNY Graduate Center Alumn, recently published a new book about his research in Runyon Heights, community in Yonkers, New York. This community has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. RED LINES, BLACK SPACES: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (Yale University Press: October, 2001) – the first history of a black middle-class community – tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class.

“No one experiences the cruel ironies of American racism more forcefully than does the African American middle class. In this nuanced community study, Bruce Haynes uses historical and ethnographic methods to tell the story of one long-standing black suburban neighborhood. In so doing, he opens a window on the interaction between race and place throughout twentieth century America.”
–Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Bruce Haynes is currently assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis, and an alumni of the CUNY Graduate Center.