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Summer 2008

• David J. Frank has been promoted to Full Professor.
• Frank D. Bean is quoted in the Ventura County Star on August 23, 2008.
• Rubén Rumbaut, sociology professor, is quoted in The Washington Post on August 23, 2008.
• Joy Pixley is quoted in the OC Register on August 22, 2008.
• Goldie Komaie awarded Haynes Foundation Fellowship to study Iranian community.
  
• Frank Bean is quoted in the LA Times on July 16, 2008.
  
• Jody Agius Vallejo is featured in the Social Sciences News on July 15, 2008.
• Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in The Oregonian on July 13, 2008, and in The Seattle Times on July 16, 2008.
• David Smith is quoted in Stars and Stripes on July 9, 2008.
• Francesca Polletta has been promoted to Full Professor.
• David Meyer is quoted in The Sunday Paper (Ga.) on June 15, 2008.
• Steve Boutcher has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant for his project titled, "Pro Bono Publico, The Large Law Firm, and Social Movements: A Relational Approach to the Study of Cause Lawyering."

Spring 2008

• Calvin Morrill has been elected as the Chair of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Many others of the UCI Sociology Department faculty members have been recently elected to serve the discipline in a major role:
  • Frank Bean, Chair, International Migration Section, ASA
  • David Meyer, Chair, Peace,War and Social Conflict, ASA
  • Katie Faust, Council Member, Methodology Section, ASA
  • Francesca Polletta, Council Member, ASA 2004-2007
  • Ruben Rumbaut, Council Member, ASA, 2006-2009
  • David Smith, Chair-Elect, Marxist Section, ASA
  • David Snow, Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section, ASA
  • Judy Treas, President-Elect, Pacific Sociological Association (Professor Treas will be the third faculty member in this Department to serve in this role, following Francesca Cancian and David Snow).
    
• David Snow was selected as 2008 recipient of the Lee Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP).
• Jen'nan G. Read has been awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for strategic outreach and communication on her research on Muslim American political incorporation. 
• Jennifer Lee has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Japan for 2008-09 and named the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar Distinguished Lecturer. 
• Sociology House is featured on Page 6 of the Spring Quarter Arroyo Vista Housing Newsletter.
• Three Sociology Graduate Students were awarded the 2007-2008 Order of Merit in the School of Social Sciences:
  • Goldie Komaie: Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship
  • James D. Bachmeier: A. Kimball Romney Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper
  • Roberto G. Gonzales: Special School Recognition as the 2007-08 Lauds & Laurels Recipient
• The article, "Emergent Coordinators in the World Trade Center Disaster" by Miruna Petrescu-Prahova and Carter Butts, was recently accepted for publication by the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
• Jody Agius Vallejo's paper, "Latina Spaces: Middle-Class Ethnic Capital and Professional Organizations in the Latino Community," was selected as the Best Graduate Student Paper from the International Migration Section of the ASA.
• The article, "The Global Dimensions of Rape-Law Reform: A Cross-National Study of Policy Outcomes,” by David Frank, Tara Hardinge, and Kassia Wosick-Correa, was recently accepted for publication in The American Sociological Review.
• Sharon Oselin's article, "Leaving the Streets: Transformation of Prostitute Identity through Rehabilitation," was recently accepted for publication in the journal Deviant Behavior.
• Rubén Rumbaut is featured on NPR on May 27, 2008.
• Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in the U.S. News & WorldReport on May 15, 2008.
• Francesca Polletta's 2006 book, "It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics" (University of Chicago Press), after receiving the Outstanding Book Award from the Collective Behavior/Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association in 2007, is again among the books listed as Honorable Mention for the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
• Jody Agius Vallejo's article, "Latina Spaces: Middle Class Ethnic Capital and Professional Associations in the Ethnic Community," was accepted for publication in City & Community.
• An evening honoring Lauds & Laurel recipient, Roberto Gonzales, with his advisor, friends, and Dept. Chair.
• Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in the OC Register on May 1, 2008.
• Lauds and Laurel award winner, Roberto Gonzales, was interviewed, "The Forgotten Youth."
• Edwin Amenta is awarded NSF grant for his research.
• Jen'nan Read is quoted in the Daily Pilot on April 9, 2008.

Winter 2008

• Judith Treas is quoted in the U.S. News and World Report on March 31, 2008, debunking the "infidelity epidemic."
• Study by Jen'nan Read to be published in the April issue of American Sociological Review, and was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" segment on March 24, 2008.
• Judy Stepan-Norris was elected as the Chair-Elect-Secretary of the Academic Senate of the UC Irvine campus.
• Wang Feng is quoted on CNSNews.com on March 12, 2008.
• Wang Feng is quoted in the Wall Street Journal on March 6, 2008.
• Roberto Gonzales is the 2008 Lauds & Laurels Recipient in Social Sciences.
• Jody Agius Vallejo was awarded a Visiting Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and U.S.-Mexican Studies at UC, San Diego, during the 2008-2009 academic year.
• Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in the Sacramento Bee on February 26, 2008.
• Chuck O'Connell was recently selected as the graduating senior class’s Outstanding Professor in the School of Social Sciences, marking O'Connell's tenth year of receiving this award.
• Cynthia Feliciano was awarded the Cultural Diversity Studies grant from The Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Libraries (CORCL).
• Frank Bean is featured in the San Jose Mercury News on February 18, 2008.
• Francesca Polletta to be interviewed about building a Progressive movement on the NPR radio program Forthright Radio on wkzyx on February 13, 2008. (more on the radio program, click here)
• Francesca Polletta is interviewed about her book on radio, Against the Grain, on February 5, 2008.
• Jen'nan Ghazal Read is quoted in the Riverside Press-Enterprise on February 4, 2008.
• Ron Lesthaeghe is awarded the IUSSP 2008 Laureate.
• Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in the New York Times on February 3, 2008.
• Rubén Rumbaut is referenced in the Dallas Morning News on February 2, 2008.
• Rubén Rumbaut is referenced in Al Dia (Philadelphia) on February 2, 2008.
• James Bachmeier receives the UC Office of the President Labor and Employment Research Fund Award.
• Jasmine Kerrissey receives the UC Office of the President Labor and Employment Research Fund Award.
• Susan Brown receives the Presidential Authority Award from the Russell Sage Foundation to study immigrant integration in Los Angeles.
• Carter Butts is the recipient of the 2008 Freeman Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
• Rubén Rumbaut is featured in the International Herald Tribune on January 15, 2008.
• Rubén Rumbaut is quoted in the New York Times on January 15, 2008.
• Francesca Polletta is quoted in the New York Times on January 13, 2008.
  
• A study by Rubén Rumbaut is featured in The Mercury News on January 12, 2008.
• David Smith is the 2009 Chair-Elect of the Marxist Section of the ASA.
  

 

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