WELCOME to the newest members of our faculty, Assistant Professors Nikki Khanna and Edward Walker. Nikki Khanna is a recent Ph.D. graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, defending her dissertation entitled "Black, White, or Biracial? Negotiating Race and Identity." She will be teaching Multiracial People in America and Race Relations for the fall semester. Edward Walker, received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and his dissertation is entitled "The Privatization of Political Influence: Grassroots Lobbying in the United States." He will be teaching Development of Sociological Theory and Social Movements and Collective Behavior in the fall.
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT HIGHLY RANKED IN NATIONAL STUDY: According to research reported at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in 2003 by Professors Jon Marx and Douglas Eckberg of Winthrop University, the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont ranks either number two or number three (depending on the measure) in the country for undergraduate-only sociology departments in its record of publications in the most important journals in the field.
CONGRATULATIONS to Brookes Cowan, who produced a documentary, "Pioneers of Hospice: Changing the Face of Dying," and to 2000 SOC major Rachel Lee, who won the 2004 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, who was also our guest speaker at the AKD Awards Banquet. Also congratulations to sociology students Elizabeth Isabelle and Joi Hart, who received the 2007 Most Outstanding Senior Major Award and the 2007 Jeannette R. Folta Memorial Award, respectively. Alice Fothergill published Heads Above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood (State University of New York Press, 2004 - her work has been featured in The View), and Lutz Kaelber edited, with William Swatos, a book on the 100th anniversary of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic (Paradigm Publishers, 2005).
Pictured here are the 2007
Award winners (Joi Hart on the left, Elizabeth Isabelle on the right),
along with the Chair of the Sociology Department, Dr. Nicholas L.
Danigelis
Soc. Majors: Consider being a TA. Teaching Assistants are especially wanted for Soc 1, 19, and 29. Open to only majors and minors with at least 12 hours of Sociology, TAs assist the faculty member by conducting weekly discussion groups, grading and other responsibilities as necessary. Students register for Sociology 289 which gives them 3 credits at the 200 level. If interested, please contact Bev Cooper or Salli Griggs. Permission of the instructor is necessary.
Sabbaticals and Leaves: Moustapha Diouf, Sabbatical Spring 2008, Fall 2009.Last modified August 27 2007 11:25 AM
