Queens College Sociology http://soc.qc.cuny.edu Queens College Sociology Department Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:42:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Professor Robin Rogers on Evangelicals in the Primaries http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/09/06/professor-robin-rogers-on-evangelicals-in-the-primaries/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/09/06/professor-robin-rogers-on-evangelicals-in-the-primaries/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:08:20 +0000 jonathan http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/?p=414 Professor Robin Rogers spoke in February 2008 on a panel at Princeton University on the topic of evangelicals in the primaries.  A video of Professor Rogers’ presentation is now available online: Evangelicals in the Primaries (MPEG-4 video).

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/09/06/professor-robin-rogers-on-evangelicals-in-the-primaries/feed/ Professor Pyonggap Min’s Book Featured in The New York Times http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/09/03/professor-mins-book-featured-in-the-new-york-times/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/09/03/professor-mins-book-featured-in-the-new-york-times/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:01:51 +0000 jonathan http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/?p=409 Professor Pyonggap Min’s book, Ethnic Solidarity for Economic Survival, was featured  The New York Times on September 2nd.    In the Produce Aisle, Solidarity for Korean Grocers

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/09/03/professor-mins-book-featured-in-the-new-york-times/feed/ Professor Victoria Pitts Featured in the Queens Chronicle http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/08/25/professor-victoria-pitts-featured-in-the-queens-chronicle/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/08/25/professor-victoria-pitts-featured-in-the-queens-chronicle/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:05:42 +0000 jonathan http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/?p=411 Professor Victoria Pitts-Taylor was featured in the Queens Chronicle on August 24th.  QC Professor A ‘Body Mod’ Expert (PDF).

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/08/25/professor-victoria-pitts-featured-in-the-queens-chronicle/feed/ Professor Andrew Beveridge Testifies On The Jury System in the Addison Trial http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/28/professor-andrew-beveridge-testifies-on-the-flawed-jury-system-in-the-addison-trial/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/28/professor-andrew-beveridge-testifies-on-the-flawed-jury-system-in-the-addison-trial/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 00:05:01 +0000 jonathan http://elf.soc.qc.cuny.edu/soc/?p=37 “Dr. Andrew Beveridge, a sociology professor at Queens College in New York who specializes in demography, testified yesterday about a study he did at the request of Addison’s lawyers. It found that minorities and young people were underrepresented among jurors called last year in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester, where Addison is scheduled to be tried in September. ”

Read the rest of the article, Witness for Addison: Jury system flawed, in the Concord Monitor.

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/28/professor-andrew-beveridge-testifies-on-the-flawed-jury-system-in-the-addison-trial/feed/ Sociology Students Receiving College-Wide Honors http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/27/sociology-majors-receiving-college-wide-honors/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/27/sociology-majors-receiving-college-wide-honors/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 16:00:26 +0000 dsavage@qc.cuny.edu http://elf.soc.qc.cuny.edu/soc/?p=38 It’s a good year for sociology majors this year;  there are more names on the list we have had for quite some time.  The only department whose students were recognized more often was Psychology.  The students and the awards they will be receiving at the Baccalaureate ceremony this evening at 7:00 PM in Colden Auditorium:

Nancy Zakiniaeiz   — Saul Weprin Memorial Scholarship

Mildred Wescott    — Jeffrey B. Berman Memorial Award

Abigail Balch         — Queens College Women’s Club Award

Saba Menashehoff — Queens College Women’s Club Award

Jennie Shajnfeld    — Alumni Association of Queens College Award

and one award to a sociology minor:

Jonathan Bearak –  Queens College Retirees Association - Lucile Lindberg Scholarship

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/27/sociology-majors-receiving-college-wide-honors/feed/ QC Sociology Student James French Receives the Charles W. Smith Award for Best Paper http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/26/charles-w-smith-award-for-best-paper/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/26/charles-w-smith-award-for-best-paper/#comments Mon, 26 May 2008 15:11:09 +0000 jonathan http://elf.soc.qc.cuny.edu/soc/?p=21 With great pleasure, our committee chose James French as the first recipient of the Charles Smith Award for his paper entitled, “When What Becomes Who: Exploring and Reviewing the Post- & Trans-Human.”

With great pleasure, our committee chose James French as the first recipient of the Charles Smith Award and his contribution will be recognized at the department honors dinner. His amazing paper supervised by Lauren Seiler focused on post and trans-human society.  The three other papers by Ruqayyah Abdullah and Asher Ross (on sexual behavior and body weight); Susan Sepe (on aging and foster care); and Danielle Wittman (an ethnographic study of a local Long Island coffee shop, referred to as “The Cup,) all deserve “honorable mention” due to their excellence.

We thank and honor Professors Turner, Seiler, Lewis, and Newmahr, for nominating the foregoing papers and for their superb mentorship.

Thanks to Robin Rogers-Dillon, Lauren Seiler, and Staci Newmahr, members of the award committee.

Bernard Cohen, Committee Chair

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/05/26/charles-w-smith-award-for-best-paper/feed/ Professor Harry G. Levine’s Research On Marijuana Arrests Featured in The New York Times http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/04/30/professor-harry-g-levines-research-on-marijuana-arrests-featured-in-the-new-york-times/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/04/30/professor-harry-g-levines-research-on-marijuana-arrests-featured-in-the-new-york-times/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:57:04 +0000 jonathan http://elf.soc.qc.cuny.edu/soc/?p=36 Harry G. Levine’s research on the epidemic of marijuana arrests in NYC is featured in Jim Dwyer’s About New York column in The New York Times today, “On Arrests, Demographics, and Marijuana.”

]]> http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/04/30/professor-harry-g-levines-research-on-marijuana-arrests-featured-in-the-new-york-times/feed/ Professor Sujatha Fernandes Receives the 2008 Feliks Gross Award http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/04/21/sujatha-fernandes-has-won-the-2008-feliks-gross-award/ http://soc.qc.cuny.edu/2008/04/21/sujatha-fernandes-has-won-the-2008-feliks-gross-award/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:50:47 +0000 jonathan http://elf.soc.qc.cuny.edu/soc/?p=35 Sujatha Fernandes has won the 2008 Feliks Gross Award from the CUNY Academy for
the Humanities and Sciences, which is “presented each year to an assistant
professor in recognition of outstanding research, or potential for such, in
the humanities or sciences, including social and life sciences.” This year
there are two winners, the other, Vinod Menon, from the physics department
at Queens.

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