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Assistant Professor Rebecca Scott has received a University of Missouri System Research Board award.
Alum Core Group Meets on Campus
Alum core group gathers under the department's bronze plaque during members' first campus visit on April 26, 2008. Pictured left to right are Charles Westerberg (Beloit College), Larry Koch (University of Michigan, Flint), Margaret Levin (Sierra Club, Midwest Region), Stewart Acuff (AFL-CIO, Washington DC), Cathy Jolly (Councilwoman, Kansas City), and committee organizer Professor John Galliher (MU sociology).
Congratulations to associate professor Wayne Brekhus for receiving one of the University’s 2008 William T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence. The Fellowships are awarded to five outstanding teachers at the University each year and include a $10,000 stipend.
Congratulations to Ed Brent for receiving MU’s Faculty Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Ed’s company Ideaworks has made important contributions to the development of social science software.
Congratulations to Jennifer Beggs-Weber for receiving the University of Missouri’s Donald K. Anderson Graduate Teaching Award.
Congratulations to sociology major Tyler Schafer, whose paper “Collective Memory and Social Marking: The Cognitive Civil War in Mexico” is the winner of the 2008 Hans O. Mauksch Award undergraduate competition for outstanding sociology papers. Members of the faculty review committee were Byung-Soo Kim and Takeshi Wada.
Sociology major Lauren Sanborn has won a Harryette J. Campbell Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year.
The following undergraduate majors were recently inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), the sociology honorary society: Theo Holtwick, Nora Leahy, Tyler Schafer, Daniel Thode, Leah Thomas, and Jennifer Zanfes. Congratulations to our inductees and much gratitude to John Galliher for sponsoring the MU chapter
Byung-Soo Kim has been awarded a Big 12 Fellowship in support of his research.
Tola Pearce has been invited to give a presentation at Scripps College in California in March on aspects of Yoruba motherhood under globalization.
Rebecca Scott has been invited by James Scott to present a colloquium in November on her West Virginia field research on the culture of masculinity at Yale University's Program in Agrarian Studies.
SPRING 2008 COLLOQUIUM SERIES
January 30 Jay Gubrium: “Field and Story in Ethnography”
Wayne Brekhus: Introduction
February 13 Soren Larsen, Geography, "The Future's Past: The Politics of Time
and Territory among the Dakelh First Nations of British Columbia"
Joan Hermsen: Introduction
February 27 Jackie Litt, Women's and Gender Studies, “Women of Katrina:
Crossing Borders, Weaving Networks, and Taking Care"
Dave Brunsma: Introduction
March 10 Pam Stone, Sociology, City University of New York, "Opting Out:
Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home", 7PM,
210 Strickland Hall (GCB)
April 16 Brian Colwell: “The Situation as Concept: The Impact of Goal
Motivation on Social Perception”
Byung-Soo Kim: Introduction
Contact Sociology Department for locations: 882-8331
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE
Speaker: Professor Robert Wuthnow, Department of Sociology,
Princeton University
Title: “The Global Reach of American Christianity”
Time/Place: 7pm, April 14, 2008, Stotler Lounge, MU Memorial Union
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