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09/21/2018

Congratulations to Mary-Collier Wilks on having her paper entitled "Activist, Entrepreneur, or Caretaker?: Negotiating Varieties of Women in Development" accepted for publication in Gender and Society. The paper will appear in the April 2019 issue. Congratulations MC!

08/29/2018

Professor Isaac Ariail Reed's Article in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Congratulations Isaac!

(2018). Agency, power, modernity: A manifesto for social theory. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Ahead of Print.

08/03/2018

See the linked coverage of Professor Josipa Roksa's most recent article, "The Role of Family Support in Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students.”, in UVA Today https://news.virginia.edu/content/what-parents-can-give-their-college-students-money-cant-buy?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news.
Also, view the follow up in the Inside Higher Ed story https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/11/emotional-support-families-makes-difference-low-income-students
Congratulations Josipa!

Parents lacking financial resources or college degrees are sometimes thought of as being less capable of supporting their children in college, but they likely have something money can’t buy: emotional support.

02/17/2017

Congratulations to Mary-Collier Wilks, Sarah Johnson, Pilar Plater and Elissa Zeno for completing their Master's degree. Well done!

02/16/2017

Professor Josipa Roksa's new journal article "Engaging With Diversity” is discussed in Inside Higher Ed.

Study finds students' negative diversity experiences, though less common than positive ones, hinder cognitive development and student learning.

02/16/2017

Congratulations to Professor W. Bradford Wilcox on new journal article "Ties That Bind - Childrearing in the Age of Cohabitation" Read the article here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-02-14/ties-bind

11/29/2016

Congratulations to Professor Jeffrey Olick in the release of his new book, The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method!

11/22/2016

Congratulations to Professor Allison Pugh on the release of her new book, Beyond the Cubicle!

09/07/2016

Read this today and thought some of you, particularly those in the earlier stages of the program, may be interested.

08/23/2016

Congrats to UVA Associate Professor Isaac Ariail Reed who received the Lewis A. Coser Award at the 111th American Sociology Association Annual Meeting. The award and corresponding lecture recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work "holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology."