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June 6, 2014
Professor Christopher Wildeman has a new study out in JAMA Pediatrics that has received a good deal of media attention this past week. In it, he and his coauthors argue that...
June 6, 2014
Professor Frederick Wherry has been elected Chair of the Consumers and Consumption Section of the ASA. The Section aims to promote research, dialog and teaching about the...
May 27, 2014
Tomorrow in DC, Professor Christopher Wildeman will speak as a panelist at a special event sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science and the Scholars...
May 27, 2014
A new article just out in Social Science Research by Professor Vida Maralani shows how school policies, peers, and health expectations from teen years predict adult smoking....
May 27, 2014
Professor Jeffrey Alexander and recent graduate Bernadette Jaworsky have a new book out now from Polity Press. In it, they argue that neither money nor demography can explain...
May 16, 2014
Professor Elijah Anderson was awarded an honorary degree at The College of Wooster this week, where he also spoke at commencement about the changing nature of race and racism...
May 12, 2014
Graduate student Tony Cheng has received the American Sociological Association’s Community Action Research Award for his work in Bridgeport, CT involving a street...
May 12, 2014
Graduate student Thomas Crosbie has published a new paper on scandals and mediatization in the military in the journal Media, War & Conflict. In it, he draws from...
May 12, 2014
Professor Emily Erikson’s book, “Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757” is out now from Princeton’s Analytical Sociology...
April 30, 2014
Graduate student Mustafa Yavaş has a paper out now in Social Science Computer Review titled “Impact of Homophily on Diffusion Dynamics Over Social Networks”. In it, he and...