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).

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

Professor Victoria Pitts-Taylor was featured in the Queens Chronicle on August 24th.  QC Professor A ‘Body Mod’ Expert (PDF).

“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.

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.”

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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.”

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.