News - April 2007
Volume 7

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News from Faculty and Graduate Students (Continued)

William Tash, emeritus, was selected by the National Science Foundation (Division of Industry/University Cooperative Research centers program) to evaluate the University of Maryland and Harvard’s newly funded comprehensive center for health information and decision systems.

Pablo Vila published two articles: “Identidad en los bordes: México-Estados Unidos,” Todavía 15, Diciembre 2006, Buenos Aires and “La conflictividad de género en la cumbia villera,” TRANS: Revista Transcultural de Música / Transcultural Music Review #10, December 2006, Spain. His book, “Identidades fronterizas: Narrativas de religión, género y clase en la frontera México-Estados Unidos will be out this spring.

Shanyang Zhao was in China in May-June 2006 to teach a short course on data analysis to graduate students in the sociology department at Shanghai University. He also lectured at three other universities. His following two papers have been accepted for publication: “The Second Digital Divide: Unequal Access to Social Capital in the Online World” (with David Elesh), forthcoming in International Review of Modern Technology and “Internet and the Lifeworld: Updating Schutz’s Theory of Mutual Knowledge,” forthcoming in Information Technology and People. He has been awarded a university study leave for the fall 2007 to work on a research project that examines the impact of Internet use on adolescence.

Graduate Students

Melody Boyd presented a paper at the American Sociological Association meetings in August entitled “The Differential Impact of Religion on Racial Attitudes toward Support for Government Assistance to the Poor”.

Rosemary Feeley is working on her dissertation, a gender analysis of health education programs. She is combining field work, interviews and content analysis, and plans to complete her data collection in late spring.

Amy Yebaoh presented papers at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, held in Las Vegas in February 2007 and at the National Black Graduate Student Conference in Baltimore in March. She received the “Graduate Fund for Excellence” from Temple’s college of Liberal Arts and published “How Does A Black Become A Black Scholar in America?” in Clarity Magazine, No.2, 2007.