Dr. Meghan Kallman, Ph.D. Sociology at Brown University, and Assistant Professor of the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, has published her latest book: The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps. This book, published by Columbia University Press, uses the case of the Peace Corps to explain why and how participation in a bureaucratic organization changes people’s ideals and politics.
Laura Garbes has been awarded the National Science Foundation's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant on Differentiating Effects of Particularistic Performance Standards in the Workplace!
Professor of Sociology Jose Itzigsohn and Professor Karida Brown of UCLA, Ph.D. Brown University, have published their latest book entitled The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. This book, published by NTU Press, provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought.
prabhdeep kehal, PhD Candidate for Socialogy, has been awarded The Charles V. Willie Minority Graduate Student Award based on their dissertation, Racializing Meritocracy: Ideas of Excellence and Exclusion in Faculty Diversity!
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."
