News - April 2007
Volume 7

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News from Faculty and Graduate Students

Faculty

Michelle Byng is currently a faculty fellow with the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT). She made a presentation of her current research on Muslim American identity construction at the Association of Muslim Social Scientists Meeting, held at Hartford Seminary in October 2006, and at the Eastern Sociological meetings in March 2007. She will also participate in the panel, “The Integration of Muslims in Western Democracies” at the Society for the Study of Social Problems meeting in August and organize a session on Race and Ethnicity for the ASA meeting in August 2007 in New York City. Her article, “Complex Inequalities: The Case of Muslim Americans After 9/11” will appear in the American Behavioral Scientist.

Kevin Delaney is organizing a special session at the upcoming ASA meetings entitled, “Money in Movement: markets, circuits and networks” featuring recent scholarship in the sociology of money and currency, including papers by Viviana Zelizer, Karen Knorr Cetina, Marieke de Goede and Kieran Healy.

Rosario Espinal published in August 2006 her book, Democracia Epiléptica en la Sociedad del Clic, with a collection of Op-Ed articles published in Dominican newspapers between 2004 and 2006. She is also coauthor of a research report for the Dominican Republic based on the 2006 Latin American Public Opinion Poll, entitled: “Cultura Política de la Democracia en República Dominicana: 2006.”

Kim Goyette had Meara Najin Lim-Goyette on December 2, 2006. She presented a paper with graduate students Joshua Freely and Danielle Farrie about how racial change in schools influences neighbors’ perceptions of their quality, at the Population Association of America annual meetings. She also presented work on the influence of occupational expectations on low-SES and high-SES students’ educational plans at the 2006 ASA meeting. A chapter on the influence of several measures of men’s and women’s earnings on marriage and cohabitation is forthcoming in a book titled Intergenerational Influences on Marriage and Cohabitation, edited by Arland Thornton, William Axinn and Yu Xie from the University of Chicago Press.

Sherri Grasmuck was the winner of the 2006 Elliot Liebow Award for her book Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys’ Baseball (Rutgers University Press). The award honors excellent works of urban ethnography. It is awarded by the Hylan Lewis Urban Ethnography Seminar at the City University of New York, and the winner is chosen from a group of finalists by a panel of distinguished sociologists from around the country. This is the second award Protecting Home has received after the 2005 Book Award of the North American Society for Sociologists of Sports (NASSS). It has also been selected as the “common book” reading for all sociology undergraduates at Furham University, Greenville, South Carolina, where Sherri will be presenting a public lecture to a university plenary in April 2007. She will also be a discussant for the ESS panel on “Ethnography in Urban Communities” in March 2007. In addition, she is the organizer of two panels at the ASA meeting on “Narrative, Culture and Biography.

Dustin Kidd published “Harry Potter and the Functions of Popular Culture” in the Journal of Popular Culture in February 2007 and wrote a review of the Whitney Biennial that appeared in the magazine Afterimage. He won the Iris and Gene Rotberg Award for a research project he is conducting with undergraduate student, Christina Jackson. He is also co-editor of Perspectives, the newsletter of the Theory Section of the ASA.

Anthony Kouzis attended the ASA annual meeting in Montreal in August 2006. In November, he traveled to Boston for the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting, where he presented the Statistics, Epidemiology and Mental Health Sections’ 2006 Rema Lapouse Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Psychiatric Epidemiology to Felton James Earls, MD of Harvard University at a special ceremony and lecture. He was coauthor of articles that appeared in the American Journal of Epidemiology (Spring 2007) and Preventive Medicine (Fall 2006) on the risks of cancer from the effects of active and secondhand cigarette smoking