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 spoke to a Virginia branch of the “Great Decisions” groups about South Africa’s past and future challenges and in February 2008 she was a panel member to discuss the GW’s Theater Department’s production of The Love of the Nightingale..
A Federal prosecutor, Robert Waters, and former New York State prosecutor, Bonnie Cohen-Gallet, will speak to Professor Buntman's Introduction to Criminal Justice students this Spring.
On March 27, William Chambliss has been invited to give the Beto Chair Lecture at Sam Houston State University. He has also organized an international workshop on state crime to take place at the Onati Spain International Institute for the Sociology of Law from May 27-31. He will present two papers at the workshop.
Along with colleague Tim Wadsworth, Charis Kubrin received funding from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for their project, "What's Behind the Increase?: Explaining Recent Trends in Suicide among African American Males."
Charis Kubrin has given several invited talks including at Penn State Univeristy and the University of Cincinnati. In March she will be giving a talk at UC Merced and in April she will be giving a talk at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
In Fall 2008, Charis Kubrin will serve as the Faculty Director of GW's Dean's Scholars in Globalization Program.
In the Fall 2007, Honey Nashman was on sabbatical doing research on Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement. How prepared are community organizations for this influx of Boomers as both providers (e/g. volunteer) and as recipients of service?
Greg Squires will be giving several invited talks including:
Wisconsin Moves Forward to Address Foreclosures, Milwaukee, WI, March
13, 2008, sponsored by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and University
of Wisconsin Extension
Katrina: New Orleans at a Crossroads, University of Colorado, Colorado
Springs, March 19, 2008
Fair Housing Center of the Greater Palm Beaches, Inc.Annual Fair Housing
Month Celebration, West Palm Beach, FLA April 18, 2002
Plenary Session on the Subprime Lending Crisis, Urban Affairs
Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 25, 2008
21st Annual Luncheon and Workshop, Fair Housing Center of Western
Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 30, 2008
Who Claims the City? Thinking Race, Class, and Urban Space, to be held
at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI on May 2 -3, 2008.
Greg Squires was elected to the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association for a three year term beginning in 2007. He was also appointed as a Consumer Representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which entitles him to participate in the deliberations of the four annual national meetings of the NAIC, an organization constituted by the insurance commissioners in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Steve Tuch along with colleagues William V. D'Antonio and John K. White received an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award for their project, "Religion, Culture Wars, and Polarization in the U.S. Congress, 1971-2006."
Ronald Weitzer delivered an address on "Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Myths and Realities," to the District of Columbia Sociological Society in November 2007, and gave the lead presentation at a conference on minorities in the criminal justice system at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in January 2008, where he presented a paper on "Police-Minority Relations in America."
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 got a job as a call center specialist at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Graduate student Jeffrey Lubbers published his piece, "D.C. Council Should Think Twice about Giving Pollin $50M" on June 7th in The Examiner.
Graduate student Jacquelynn Parent Willard will be presenting "The Effects of Diversity on Universities' Integration Efforts and on Social Involvement, Academic Success and Satisfaction of Latino Students" at the Association for Humanist Sociology conference in Henderson, NV (October 4-6) and at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference in Ypsilanti, MI (October 25-28).
April Woolnough will be presenting her study, "Gender Differences in the Use of Self-Protective Behaviors Based on Students' Fear of Crime on Campus" at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference in Ypsilanti, MI (October 25-28).
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