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Awards  

Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship

Nancy Foner has won the 2011 Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship at Hunter College (5/17/11).

Stand Up for Justice Award

Prof. Pyong Gap Min received a "Stand Up for Justice Award" from MinKwon Center for Community Action, a powerful minority (Korean) civil rights organization. MinKwon Center has been vigorously fighting for immigrant and workers' rights for many years. He was one of the three recipients of the award this year, and the other two were non-Korean community activists.

He also received a "Life-Time Achievement Award" from the Korean Association of New York in May this year on the occasion of its fifty-year anniversary.

Congratulations to Prof. Pyong Gap Min!

 

2009 Distinguished Book Award from American Society of Criminology

Jock Young has been awarded the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the International Division of the American Society of Criminology for Cultural Criminology :An Invitation, London, Sage, 2008, co-authored with Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward.

Congratulations to Jock!

 

 

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  
 

Barbara Katz Rothman was quoted in Boston Globe on 3/8/11 "The unwed mother paradox"
Boston Globe

 

 

Prof. John Torpey’s article, "A (Post-)Secular Age? Religion and the Two Exceptionalisms," just published in Social Research. Vol 77 : No 1 : Spring 2010


Cynthia Fuchs Epstein. 2010. “On Boundaries.” Sociological Forum. 25 :1. 148-160

New article on categorical distinctions in research on race and gender.

Congratulations to Cynthia!

 

Sharon Zukin in the New York Times:

"A Contrarian’s Lament in a Blitz of Gentrification"

 

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  

 

Bernadette Ludwig, a third year student, has won AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) Summer Research Award for $5,000 at International Summer School in Forced Migration at the University of Oxford (UK) - July 10-29, 2011. (5/17/11)

David Monaghan, a second year student, has won the Clifford Clogg Scholarship to attend the ICPSR in Univ. of Michigan this summer. This scholarship covers the fee to enroll as a Program Scholar, which enables him to attend either one or both of the Summer Program's four-week sessions in Ann Arbor. (5/17/11)

Dominique Nisperos has won the Ford Foundation Fellowship 2011 predoctoral competition. This fellowship is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies.

Dominique's selection for this prestigious award reflects review panelists' judgment of her scholarly competence as well as the promise that she shows for future achievement as a scholar, researcher, and teacher in an institution of higher education.

Dominique is a first year student working with Prof. Cynthia Epstein as research assistant. (4/11/11)

 

David Jancsics has won the highly competitive Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship for 2011-12. The fellowship provides a stipend of $18,000 and level III in-state tuition. David is working on his dissertation, " The Sociology of Corruption: An Eastern-European Case" with Paul Attewell (chair), John Torpey, & Phil Kasinitz on his committee. (4/8/11)

 

Peter Frase, a student working with Professor Janet Gornick, has been awarded a PhD Grant from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) -- i.e., Luxembourg's national science foundation -- to support his dissertation work. The grant provides Peter with a full-time salary for 30 months, plus a travel stipend.

During the grant period, Peter will spend 70 percent of his time at CUNY and 30 percent at the Luxembourg office of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), a cross-national data archive and research institute directed by Professor Gornick. The award will commence this spring.

Peter's dissertation project is titled "The Political Economy of Working Time: A Cross-National Comparison".

Congratulations to Peter!

PS PhD candidates whose dissertation will use the Luxembourg Income Study data are eligible to apply for this grant. If you are interested in learning more about this, talk to Peter and/or Janet.

 

Laura Mauldin, a level 3 student, working with Barbara (chair), Victoria, and Bill on her dissertation, "The Bionic Ear: Disability, the Body, and Cochlear Implants" will be a Visiting Scholar this fall in a joint program for bioethics where she will be splitting her time between The Hastings Center and Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.

Congratulations to Laura!

 

Craig Willse has accepted a Visiting Residential Fellowship at the University of California Riverside for Fall 2010. He will be defending his dissertation, "From Social Problems to Governance Problems: Health and Housing After the Welfare State" at the end of the summer with Patricia, Barbara, and Stanley on his committee.

He recently had an article published in the most recent issue of Economy & Society, titled "Neo-liberal Biopolitics and the Invention of Chronic Homelessness."

Congratulations to Craig!

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.
  
   

Awards and Fellowships

 

 

Women's Studies Certificate Program and Center for the Study of Women and Society

The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

The Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize

The Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize will be awarded to a student in any Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center Working on a dissertation concerned with issues of social justice. Special consideration will be given to work on militarism and trauma.

To be considered for the prize, candidates must submit a 10-page dissertation prospectus (hard copy and a Word Document on a CD), a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor, and a CV. These materials should be directed to:

Elizabeth Small, Women's Studies

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5116

New York, NY 10016

212-817-8905

The deadline for proposals is November 1, 2010.

The amount of the award is $1000. The prize will be announced at the Center for the Study of Women and Society's annual Student Awards lunch in December 2010.

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WOMEN'S STUDIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

SUE ROSENBERG ZALK TRAVEL AWARD

The Women's Studies Certificate Program announces a new award available for students enrolled in the WSCP. The Sue Rosenberg Zalk Travel Award of $500.00 will be awarded to a student enrolled in the Women's Studies Certificate Program who needs to travel to an archive, library, or other source in order to complete his or her research. Preference will be given to students who are at the dissertation stage.

Students who wish to be considered for the award should submit a copy of your CV and a transcript, a description of your project and the travel that is necessary for its completion (five pages maximum), and a recommendation from your advisor. Please include your email address.

Submissions should be sent either in hard copy or by mail to:

Elizabeth Small (esmall@gc.cuny.edu)

Women's Studies Certificate Program

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5116

New York, NY 10016-4309)

Deadline for submissions for the fall 2010 award is November 5, 2010