In the section's latest newsletter, Kennedy's message from the chair reflects on the variety of conceptions organizing this kind of scholarship as well as anticipate the sessions this section organizes for the August 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.
Tina Park has successfully defended her dissertation entitled: "Reconstructing the Sociological Imaginary: Applying Du Boisian Social Theories of Race and Racial Colonial Capitalism".
Meg Caven has successfully defended her dissertation, "School Discipline: The Imperatives, Implementation Processes, and Unintended Consequences of Reform."
Amy Teller has successfully defended her dissertation, "Chocolate Futures: How Eco-Civic Engagement is Remaking Past Monoculture on Brazil's Cocoa Coast."
Ph.D. Candidate Tina Park was one of the two Brown graduate students achieving the Academic Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan Community Award for this year.
Professor John Logan has been awarded a new 5-year grant from NIH ($2.1 million) to support research with confidential census data on residential mobility and neighborhood change since 2000. He is working on this project with Hongwei Xu (Brown PhD, now Associate Professor at Queens College) and Charles Zhang (Former S4 postdoc, now Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater).
