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Awards and Honors
Tamara Pavasovic is one of five Harvard graduate students who has received the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. "Pavasovic’s innovative approach to section for Sociology 128: “Models of Social Science Research” left her students impressed. In addition to creating opportunities for group projects and teamwork, she offered extensive office hours, worked tirelessly with students to revise their papers, and created a supportive community environment." Read the entire article in the May 1, 2008 edition of the Harvard Gazette. This is the first time a Sociology Ph.D. student has been selected to receive this special recongition.
Sociology is very fortunate to have many excellent teaching fellows. The following students have received Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from the Bok Center for their teaching during the past calendar year: Matthew Kaliner (Soc 179), Ann Owens (Soc 128), Tamara Pavasovic (Soc 128), Dan Schrage (Soc 203a), Chana Teeger (Soc 179), Andras Tilcsik (SA 72), Crystal Fleming (Sco 97), Catherine Turco (Soc 67), and Shawna Bowden Vican (Soc 109).
Lauren A. Rivera received the Rose Laub Coser Dissertation Award from the Eastern Sociological Society. The prize is given to the most outstanding dissertation proposal relevant to issues of gender and society. Her dissertation ("Hiring and Inequality in Elite Professions") explores the role of gender, race, and class on hiring decisions in investment banks, consulting firms and law firms. Rivera was also recently awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for this research.
We are pleased to announce that this year's winner of the Sorensen Prize for the best Qualifying Paper is Chris Bail, for his paper: "Diverse Diversities: The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries Towards Immigrants in Twenty-One European Countries". The faculty members of the CHD, which choose the Sorensen Prize winner, this year were Chris Winship and Neil Gross. The decision this year was quite a difficult one as a number of first rate papers were nominated.
Stacey J. Bosick received a Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Grant from the Henry A. Murray Research Archive at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
Alison Denton Jones has been awarded a J. William Fulbright Cultural Exchange Fellowship and a Harvard University Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship to support her dissertation research. She will spend the 2007-2008 academic year in Nanjing, PR China conducting research for her project, "(Re)Constructing Religion: Organizing Lay Buddhism in Urban China Today."
Corina Graif received the 2006-2007 Howard T. Fischer Prize for excellence and innovation in Geographic Information Science. A committee representing several Harvard schools (Graduate School of Design, Harvard School of Public Health, the Faculty of Arts and Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Division of Continuing Education, and the Center for Geographic Analysis) awarded the Fisher prize for her masters thesis entitled "Creative Class and Diversity: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Chicago Neighborhoods." Corina will also present this paper at the annual meeting of the ASA in New York City August 2007.
News, Publications and Presentations
Laura Tach's research on mixed-income housing policy was a feature article titled "Challenging Assumptions" in the fall/winter 2007 issue of The Yard.
Christopher A Bail's article, "The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries toward Immigrants in Europe." has been published in the American Sociological Review, 2008, 73:1. 37-59.
Stacey J. Bosick's paper Operationalizing 'Crime' over the Life Course has been accepted for publication in Crime and Delinquency. She also presented "Crime and the Transition to Adulthood in London" at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Jeff Denis: Survival Strategies: The Life, Death, and Renaissance of a Candian Teaching Hospital (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2006), co-edited with David Boyette and Dennis William Magill. "Building Community Partnerships for Procedural Justice and Social Change" was presented in April 2007 at the 10th annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) conference in Toronto; "More than 'Window Dressing': The Conditional Effects of Diversity Training on Managerial Diversity" will be presented August 2007 at the ASA in New York City.
Van C Tran will present "English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? The Process of Language Assimilation among Second-Generation Latinos" at the upcoming ASA meeting in New York, August 2007. This paper was also presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, March 2007. Van will also be a participant in the Harvard-Manchester Summer Workshop in Immigration and Social Change in Britain and the US, organized by Prof. Mary Waters this summer at the University of Manchester, England.
Aage Sørensen Memorial Conference
In April 2008 our graduate students hosted the twelfth annual Aage B. Sorensen Memorial Conference (in collaboration with Stockholm University and University of Oxford-Nuffield) which focused on "New Frontiers of Research on Inequality and Social Exclusion". Begun as a collaboration amongst the world's leading social stratification theorists Aage Sorensen at Harvard, John Goldthorpe at Nuffield, and Robert Erikson, the conference has matured into a valuable event for the exchange of cross-national ideas on a variet of sociological topics. See conference website http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~hos/ for more information on this year's participants and presentations.
Updated: May 8, 2008
Tamara Pavasovic
Lauren A. Rivera