News and Events
Congratulations to the Department of Sociology! Our urban inequality proposal was one of the few funded under the University's Selective Excellence Program.
Faculty
William Chambliss received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.
Hiromi Ishizawa and Charis Kubrin were both awarded GW Selective Excellence Fellowships.
Charis Kubrin has given invited talks at UC Merced and the University of Colorado, Boulder. On September 19, she will give the talk "The Power of Place: Crime and Immigrant Communities" at the George Washington University Seminar in Urban Studies from 12:00-1:30 in the Marvin Center Room 402.
Charis Kubrin and Greg Squires received a George Washington University Facilitating Fund award for their project, “Does Fringe Banking Exacerbate Neighborhood Crime Rates? The Ecology of Alternative Financial Institutions and Social Disorganization in America.”
Greg Squires has received several awards including:
Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster, 2006-2011
"Cybersegregation: Is Neil a More Desirable Tenant than Tyrone or Jorge?” National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $441,601 Samantha Friedman, Principal Investigator, Gregory D. Squires, Co-Investigator, GW share of budget $121,157.
"Segregation and the Subprime Lending Crisis,” Ford Foundation, $10,000, contract received July 23, 2008, grant period, August 3-28, 2009. Grant for preparing and delivering paper at 2009 ASA Annual Conference.
Greg Squires has given several talks including:
Gregory D. Squires, “On Centralized Data Collection,” public hearing of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Committee on Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs, San Francisco, June 2, 2008.
Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires, “Katrina and Racism: There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster,” Forum on “Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism: The 40th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission,” University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, June 6, 2008.
Gregory D. Squires, “Surging Inequality and Emerging Challenges to a More Integrated America, “ Reclaim Civil Rights-Make Fair Housing a Reality, A National Policy Conference sponsored by The National Fair Housing Alliance and The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2008.
Gregory D. Squires, “Race and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis,” Race, Ethnicity, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., June 12, 2008.
Gregory D. Squires, keynote address at conference on “Leadership Collaboration Innovation: Promoting Justice and Peace,” Academy for Educational Development, New Orleans, June 13, 2008.
Steve Tuch received a George Washington University Facilitating Fund award for his project, “Stratification Ideologies in Postcommunist Nations: The Case of Poland.” Along with William V.D'Antonio, he also received an American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award for the project, "Religion, Culture Wars, and Polarization in the U.S. Congress, 1971-2006." Co-Principal Investigator.
Students
Undergraduate student Andrea Israel, is the recipient of a Gamow Fellowship for her project, "The Current State of
Mind of Washington D.C.'s Homeless Community." Greg Squires will serve as her supervisor.
Former graduate student Erin Fishburn is starting a Ph.D. program in Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska.
Former g raduate student Jeffrey Lubbers published his piece, "D.C. Council Should Think Twice about Giving Pollin $50M" on June 7th in The Examiner. He recently began work as a survey research analyst at Knowledge Networks in San Francisco, CA.
Former graduate student Jacqueline Parent is starting a Ph.D. program in Sociology at the Univeristy of Arizona.
Former graduate student April Woolnough is starting a Ph.D. program in Crime, Law and Deviance at Penn State University.
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