News & Events
News
Nitsan Chorev, Assistant Professor of Sociology, received the ASA Section Political Economy of the World-System Book Award for "Remaking US Trade Policy."
Mary L. Fennell, Professor of Sociology and Community Health, received the National Institutes of Health 2009 Director's Award "in recognition of exemplary leadership in developing and implementing the National Cancer Institute’s Community Cancer Centers Program to enhance community-based cancer care and research."
José Itzigsohn, Associate Professor of Sociology, received the 2009 Distinguished Contribution to
Research, Best Book Award for "Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and the Dominican Experience in Providence." The awards committee noted that his book "makes an impressive contribution to our understanding of assimilation, and racial and ethnic processes."
October Events Calendar for Sociology, PSTC, & S4
Thursday, October 22—PSTC Colloquium, 12 Noon, PSTC Seminar Room
Kaivan Munshi, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and PSTC, Brown University
“Identity and Mobility: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest”
Friday, October 23—S4 Colloquium, 12 Noon, PSTC Seminar Room
Jeremy Seekings, Department of Sociology, University of Capetown, South Africa
“TBA”
Friday, October 23—Brown Legal Studies Seminar, 12 Noon, Faculty Club
Jacob Gersen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
“Unbundled Powers”
Monday, October 26—PSTC Graduate Students Trainee Workshop, 12 Noon, Zimmer Lounge
Wednesday, October 28—Colloquium on Comparative Research, 5:00 p.m., McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Kamal Sadiq, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of California--Irvine
“TBA”
Thursday, October 29—PSTC Colloquium, 12 Noon, PSTC Seminar Room
Joseph Potter, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
“Oral Contraceptive Use Along the US-Mexico Border: Does a Prescription Matter?”
Friday, October 30—S4 Colloquium, 12 Noon, PSTC Seminar Room
Peter Rogerson, Department of Geography, SUNY at Buffalo
“TBA”