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Awards  

ASA's William J. Goode award

For her book Opting Out?, Prof. Pamela Stone has won the American Sociological Association's William J. Goode award given for best book in family sociology. Congratulations to Prof. Stone!

 

The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

Prof. Setsuko Nishi, Emeritus, shall be conferred The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon on Friday, June 5, at 5:30 P.M. at the Ambassador Shinichi Nishimiya, Consul General of New York's, residence . The award is in honor of “outstanding and lifelong contributions to the promotion of civil rights, sociological study and the well-being of Japanese Americans and others”. Hearty congratulations to Professor Nishi!

 

ESS Lecturer for 2008-2009

ESS has named William Kornblum, Robin L. Williams, Jr. Lecturer for 2008-2009. Click on the link for more details http://www.essnet.org/WilliamsVisits.aspx

 

Grawemeyer Liberal Arts Award

Professors Paul Atwell and David Lavin have won the Grawemeyer Liberal Arts Award for their book, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? (The Russell Sage Foundation, 2007).

 

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Robert C. Smith has won a coveted John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for his project, “America's Cruel Experiment with Its Undocumented Students”. Congratulations to Rob.

 

Outstanding Book Award for 2009 from the American Educational Research Association

Paul Attewell and David Lavin have received the Outstanding Book Award for 2009 from the American Educational Research Association for their book, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? (Russell Sage Foundation). This was a wonderful honor that brings considerable attention to this important research from the larger community of education researchers.

 

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein at Harvard Law School

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein will be the keynote speaker at the international “After the JD” conference at the Harvard University Law School, May 1-2, 2009.

 

Professors Philip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf

Philip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf have won the 2009 Mirra Komarovsky Award, the book award of the Eastern Sociological Society, for their book (with Mary Waters and Jennifer Holdaway) Inheriting the City. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the society on March 21, 2009.

 

Professors Paul Attewell and David Lavin

For their book, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?,sociology professors Paul Attewell and David Lavin, were selected to receive the $200,000 award from the Grawemeyer Foundation's 2008 awards. Congratulations to them both!

 

Distinguished Professor Richard Alba (Eastern Sociological Society --- Announcement of Merit Award)

We are very pleased to announce that Richard Alba of the CUNY Graduate Center has been selected as the 2009 ESS Merit Award Winner. Professor Alba has not only served the Eastern Sociological Society as President from 1997-98 but also in various capacities as presenter to committee member. His lifetime academic contributions to Sociology place him among the most distinguished scholars in the profession. He has published numerous books and articles and garnered prestigious grants. His ideas have advanced the thinking and research in the areas of International Migration, Race, and Ethnicity and he has influenced a generation of Sociologists.

 

Robert Smith (2008 Distinguished Book Award, from the American Sociological Association)

Our colleague Robert Smith of Baruch College has received the 2008 Distinguished Book Award,
from the American Sociological Association, for his book Mexican New York.
It is a fascinating book and drew on a decade’s worth of fieldwork in New York and Mexico.
It is wonderful that the book has received such recognition.

Our distinguished faculty group on immigration goes from strength to strength.

Enhorabuena! Rob.

Paul.

 

 

Faculty News  
 

Lily Hoffman (next Chair of the Urban & Community Section of the American Sociological Association)

In the 2009 American Sociological Association elections, Lily M. Hoffman, Professor at City College and a doctoral faculty member of GC, has been elected the next Chair of the Urban & Community Section of the American Sociological Association.

Congratulations to Lily!

 

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (conference and Chair Appointment by ERC )

Cynthia Fuchs Epstein will be speaking at a conference on women’s movements at the University of Bretagne Occidental, on April 3, 2009. The journal of the university, Amnis: Revue de Civilisation Contemporaine de ‘Universite de Bretagne Occidentale has just published her article, “The Focus of Feminism: Challenging the Myths About the U.S. Women’s Movement.”

She has also been named a Chair of a social science panel of the European Research Commission of the EU. Congratulations to Cynthia!

 

Juan Battle (Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies)

Juan Battle is the 2009 Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Prof. Battle will present a series of lectures at the University of Klagenfurt and other academic venues as well as participate in workshops in the Interfaculty Research Network "Culture and Conflict."

President of the Cultural Studies Association and the Co Chair of the Marxist Section of ASA

Patricia Clough, Professor of Sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center, is serving as President Elect of the Cultural Studies Association and the Co Chair of the Marxist Section of ASA.

Student News  

 

Anthony Buttaro, a level 2 student, has been awarded a very competitive Clogg Scholarship to spend 4 weeks at ICPSR’s Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. The Clogg Scholarship is awarded each year to a handful of graduate students in sociology and political science. This scholarship was established in 1995 by the ICPSR Council to commemorate the late Clifford C. Clogg, a prominent sociologist and social methodologist. This scholarship is viewed as a recognition of winner’s outstanding potential to become a successful social science research professional.

Anthony is working with MaryClare Lennon on her projects.

Congratulations to Anthony!

 

Alumni News  

 

Nancy Lopez, (PhD, 1999, CUNY) now associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded the Dominican Educators of Excellence in Higher Education Award for 2009. The award is granted by the Dominican Studies Association/Asociación de Estudios Dominicanos and includes an invitation to “spend a week in the Dominican Republic to meet with educators from several schools/universities with exemplary educational models, prominent people from civil society, and representatives from the Dominican Government”. Congratulations to Professor Lopez!

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.