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
Fran Buntman was chosen as a Policy Research Scholar for 2009-2010 by GWU's Institute for Public Policy for the study of “Challenging Mass Imprisonment: Policy Continuity and Change from Grassroots to Governance.” She also received the Sociology department's Urban Inequality Excellence award for Spring 2010 to develop a grant concerning “Education, Urban Inequality, and the Children of Incarcerated Parents.” In May 2009 she gave a paper entitled “Imprisoning Terrorists: Human Rights, Security, and Resistance after Guantanamo Bay” to the Law and Society Annual Meeting. In June 2009 she moderated a public discussion, “From Mbeki to Zuma: The Future of the South African Dream,” sponsored by GWU's Sociology Department, Africa Action, and Howard University's Department of African Studies. In August 2009 she had two articles published in South African newspapers concerning her interview with the current South African president about his historic incarceration as a political prisoner and concerning pluralism in the Jewish community. She has two journal articles accepted for Fall and Spring publication.
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.
Hiromi Ishizawa received a George Washington University Facilitating Fund grant for the project, “Civic Participation among Young Adults across Immigrant Generations.”
Hiromi Ishizawa is selected as a 2009-2010 Policy Research Scholar at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy for the project, “Trajectories of Civic Engagement among Children of Immigrants.”
Charis Kubrin along with Marjorie Zatz and Ramiro Martinez, received funding from the National Science Foundation to hold a workshop on the collateral consequences of immigration policy at Arizona State University from September 10-12.
Charis Kubrin's interview on mounted police patrols aired on the evening News on BBC America on September 1. It can be viewed at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8233003.stm
Charis Kubrin appeared on PBS's To The Contrary where she was interviewed about gender differences in homicide offenders. It can be viewed here: http://polytropoi.umd.edu/PBS_To_The_Contrary_Charis/
Greg Squires was appointed as Book Review Co-Editor of City & Community for three-year term.
Greg Squires has received the Joseph B. Gittler Award for Significant Scholarly Achievement in Contributing to the Ethical Resolution of Social Problems, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2009.
Greg Squires has given several talks including:
Gregory D. Squires, “Segregation as a Driver of Subprime Lending and the Ensuing Economic Fallout,” testimony before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Hearing, “Predatory Lending and Reverse Redlining: Are Low-income, Minority, and Senior Borrowers Targets for Higher Cost Loans?” June 25, 2009.
Gregory D. Squires, Derek S. Hyra, and Robert Renner, “Subprime Lending Crisis and Segregation,” U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, June 30, 2009
Versions of this talk were also presented at the following locations:
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C. August 6, 2009
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 9, 2009
International Sociological Association, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 25, 2009
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 and John K. White, 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." A book manuscript on the role of religion in Congress is in progress.
In July 2009, Ron Weitzer (and co-author Elizabeth Wood) wrote a letter, signed by 50 academics, opposing changes in Rhode Island’s prostitution law. The letter was cited in many media outlets in Rhode Island and nationally, including USA Today, the Associated Press, Fox News, the Boston Herald, and several radio and TV stations. Ron also published an op-ed article in Rhode Island’s leading newspaper, The Providence Journal, “Some Lurid Prostitution Myths Debunked,” June 19, 2009. In March 2009, he gave expert testimony in a court case challenging Canada’s prostitution law, a case pending at this time.
Students
Congratulations to undergraduates Jacqueline Hackett (Human Services), Chris Diaz (Criminal Justice), Caitlin Carroll (Sociology), and Sarah-Jo Lawrence (Sociology) who were awarded Presidential Administrative Fellowships at GW. http://gwired.gwu.edu/paf/
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.
Graduate student Lauren Ross entered the doctoral program in sociology at Temple University. She was fully funded with a fellowship.
Former graduate 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.
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