News & Events

• Our new Assistant Professor, Grégoire Mallard, is co-winner of the best student essay award from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His paper, “Can the Euratom Treaty Inspire the Middle East? The Political Promises of Regional Nuclear Communities,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Nonproliferation Review, and he will present and discuss this work at a November event hosted by the center’s Washington, D.C. office.  This is a great honor on the most important of current topics.

• Gabi Abend is receiving the Suzanne Langer Award, for the best graduate student publication, from the Sociology of Culture section of the ASA. The prize is for his paper, “Two Main Problems in the Sociology of Morality,” published in the April 2008 issue of Theory and Society.  

• Steve Hoffman is co-winner of the 2008 student paper award for the ASA section on Communication and Information Technologies. The winning paper: Steve G. Hoffman. 2007. “Simulation as a Social Process in Organizations.” Sociology Compass 1(2): 613-636. 

• Marcus Hunter has received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (WWNFF) 2008 Mellon Mays University Fellows Travel and Research Grant to conduct his dissertation research in Philadelphia.

• Professor Tom Cook has won the Sells Award for distinguished lifetime achievements in multivariate experimental psychology, awarded by the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology.
  
  
• Professor Leslie McCall has won a fellowship from the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton. She will be a visiting research scholar there in 2008-2009.
  
  
• Professor Gary Fine has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship from King's College, Cambridge University for a part of Spring Quarter 2009.
  
  
• Graduate student Marcus Hunter has won an American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship. This scholarship pays a large stipend and is renewable for three years.
  
  
• Professor Wendy Griswold is the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for her project on "The Federal Writers' Project and American Regionalism." Griswold joins Bruce Carruthers, who was a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow and will also be taking leave 2008-09. Four other NU faculty are also fellows this year (see http://www.gf.org/newfellow.html).
  
  
• Professors Jeremy Freese and Alberto Palloni joined the Northwestern Department as of Fall 2007.  Professors Freese and Palloni add to the departments strengths in social inequality, social psychology (Freese), demography (Palloni), health, and quantitative methods.  Both are affiliates of the university's Cells to Society Initiative and of the Institute for Policy Research.
  
  
• Graduate student Zandria Robinson was quoted extensively and smartly in an October 13th New York Times article on the Tyler Perry movie "Why Did I Get Married?"

• Pei-Chia Lan (NU PhD 2000), now Associate Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University, is the recipient the 2007 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the ASA for her book Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke University Press, 2006).
  
  
• Aldon D. Morris, professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, has been named the Leon Forrest Professor. Morris's teaching and research interests concern social movements, sociological theory, political sociology, race, religion and social inequality. His current work examines the sociology of W.E.B. DuBois and DuBois' insight into the nature of race. He recently published "Sociology of Race and W.E.B. DuBois: The Path Not Taken" in the ASA Centennial celebration Sociology in America: A History.
  
  
• Art Stinchcombe is this year's co-winner (with Stanley Lieberson) of the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for a Career of Distinguished Contributions to Sociological Methodology from the ASA Methodology Section.

• Monica Prasad's book The Politics of Free Markets is the winner of the 2007 Barrington Moore Award for Best Book From the Comparative Historical Section of the ASA.  This follows up her winning of the Best Paper Award in 2006 for "Why is France so French? Culture, Institutions and Neoliberalism, 1974-1981.

• Ellen Berrey won the 2007 James E. Blackwell Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities for "The Diversity Project and the New Terms of Inclusion in the U.S.: Evidence From Three Field Sites."

• Steve Hoffman won the ASA Section on Social Psychology Graduate Paper Award for "How to Punch Someone and Stay Friends: An Inductive Theory of Simulation," which was published in Sociological Theory 24(2): 170-193, 2006. 

• Sociology professor Georgi Derluguian has won the Norbert Elias Prize 2007 for his book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-SystemBiography.

• Erin McDonnell was awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project "Bureaucracy Development In the United States."

• Robin Wagner-Pacifici is the Charles Moskos Visiting Professor for fall of 2007. Wagner-Pacifici is a professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Swarthmore College. 

• Michaela de Soucey won a Northwestern Alumnae Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year

• Heather Schoenfeld and her advisor John Hagan received an NSF Dissertation grant for Heather's research, “The Politics of Prison Growth: From Chain Gangs to Work Release Centers and Supermax Prisons, Florida 1955-2005.”
  

• Gabrielle Ferrales and Ellen Berrey were selected by the American Bar Foundation as Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for the 2007-2008 year. This was a national competition and Gabrielle and Ellen won two of the four fellowships given this year. Adding to the riches, Gabrielle was also awarded a Northwestern Dissertation Year Fellowship.

• Terry McDonnell was awarded a Weinberg Research and Dissertation Fellowship for 2007-2008.

• Gabriel Abend was awarded a Northwestern Dissertation Year Fellowship and has two top journal articles coming out soon: "Two Main Problems in the Sociology of Morality" in Theory and Society and "The Meaning of 'Theory'" in Sociological Theory.

• Armando Lara-Millan was awarded an ASA Minority Fellowship.

• Aldon Morris won the 2006 Joseph Himes Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association of Black Sociologists.

• Georgi Derluguian’s book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus received mention in the (London) Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year section in the Dec. 1, 2006 edition.

• The Alumni Association recently awarded Adam Stein Weinberg a 2007 Alumni Merit Award for high achievement in a profession or field of endeavor. Adam received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern in 1994 and is currently the Executive Vice President and Provost of the School for International Training at World Learning.

• The Sociology Colloquia Series is well-known around the country for its distinguished speakers and intellectually diverse topics. The Colloquium usually takes place on Thursdays at 12:30pm.

• The Sociology Department offers a variety of workshops open to graduate students across disciplines. Please refer to the Workshop page to view the schedule of dates and speakers.

• The new Graduate Program in Comparative-Historical Social Science (CHSS) supports training for graduate students interested in comparative and historical research.  Students in the program complete their Ph.D. in either political science or sociology and also receive a certificate from the University for expertise in the interdisciplinary area of Comparative-Historical Social Science.