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2009 Award
The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice congratulates John Brent on winning second place from ASC on a paper that stemmed from his Master’s thesis entitled, “The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting”. Read more... |
2009 Fall Faculty
The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice is pleased to announce Barret Michalec as a new faculty member. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University with a major in Social Psychology. His dissertation title was Learning to Cure and Learning to Care: Empathy in the Preclinical Years of Medical Training. |
Minority Mentor/Lecture Series
The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice is pleased to announce our annual Minority Mentor/Lecture Series featuring Dr. Geoff Ward of the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Ward will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, October 8, titled, "Beyond Redistribution: The Deliberative Dynamics of Racial Justice in Criminal Social Control" from 3:30-5:00 p.m. The talk will be followed by a reception for all departmental faculty and graduate students. Dr. Ward will also be conducting a workshop for department graduate students on Friday, October 9. |
Recent PhD graduate
Bethany Brown, a recent PhD graduate, was selected as one of two inaugural winners of The Samuel H. Prince Award for a Doctoral Dissertaion on a Disaster Topic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. This award is presented by the International Research Committee on Disasters in recognition of initial and notable accomplishments by disaster researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. the intent in giving this award is to encourage the early identification of exceptional research talent. While the award has officially been around for almost a decade, the award committee was inactive. This is the first year it has considered submissions. Students who finished their PhDs in the past 5 years are eligible, so Bethany had some really tough competition. This is wonderful news for the department and DRC.
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ASC Award
Brian Starks has won an ASC Award: Brian has been selected as the winner fo the 2009 ASCs Division of People of Color and Crime (DPCC) Outstanding Student Award! He will be recognized at the DPCC luncheon at the annual ASC meeting in Philadelphia on Friday, November 6. |
Honors Students Take Trip to IKEA
"Students in Dr. Perez's Honors Introduction to Sociology course visited IKEA in White Marsh, MD,to study how Ritzer's principles of McDonaldization were being utilized. The environment proved to be one embracing efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control, concerning both the product and the experience."
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Jamie Longazel
Jamie will be leaving us to accept a fellowship from the American Bar Foundation
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Jennifer Griffin
The Office of Women's Affairs awarded Jennifer Griffin the Bessie B. Collins award. Read more... |
UD Sociology Alumna Helps Rebuild New Orleans
University of Delaware Alumna Meredith Grabek, B.A. Sociology, has moved to New Orleans to help the rebuilding effort.
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UD Sociology Alumna Helps Rebuild New Orleans
University of Delaware Alumna Meredith Grabek, B.A. Sociology, has moved to New Orleans to help the rebuilding effort.
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Dr. Eric Rise, Criminal Justice Professor
Dr. Eric Rise and criminal justice students share a course by teleconference.
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Sociology Professor Benjamin Fleury-Steiner
Dr. Fleury-Steiner has a new book, "Dying Inside" that deals with prisoners with HIV/AIDS.
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Sociology 201 Honors: Introduction to Sociology class
Students in the Honors Introduction to Sociology course with Dr. Perez this fall semester took a trip down historic Germantown Ave. in Philadelphia. Their trip mirrored the discussion in Elijah Anderson's (1999) book "Code of the Street" that documented the dramatic change in both the physical and social landscape as one travels from wealthier Chestnut Hill to more impoverished areas closer to Broad St.
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Sociology Major/Volunteer Fireman Saves Life
Christopher Abbott, a UD junior Sociology major in our Emergency and Environmental Management Concentration is also a volunteer fireman with Aetna of Newark.
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Slovakia and Violence Against Women
How do countries respond to social problems like violence committed against women if - for decades - they had barely acknowledged its existence? That is exactly the question Dr. Susan L. Miller and doctoral student Gabriela Wasileski set out to explore in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in summer 2008.
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Karen Parker, Ph.D.
Karen Parker, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, has been awarded the Coramae Richey Mann Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime, of the American Society of Criminology.
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Tricia Wachtendorf - NSF Grant
Dr. Tricia Wachtendorf, Associate Director for Disaster Research Center and Dr. Rachel Davidson, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering will work together on an National Science Foundation grant |
Two Graduate Students Obtain Dissertation Fellowships
Two of our Ph.D. students have obtained dissertation fellowships from external funding agencies this year. Phil Kavanaugh, who is working under the direction of Dr. Tammy Anderson, just received word that he was awarded a dissertaion fellowship from the National Institute of Justice for his research on victimization in Rave and Hip Hop clubs in Philadelphia. Also, Bethany Brown, who is working under the direction of Dr. Tricia Wachtendorf, received a dissertaion fellowship from the Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) and the Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado - Boulder. These competitive fellowships are awarded to doctoral students to support work on dissertations examining natural and human-made hazards, risk, and disasters. This $10,000 award, which is funded through the National Science Foundation and Swiss Re, will provide support to Bethany for some additional fieldwork, transcription costs, and dissemination of findings. Her research is on the differential recovery of domestic violence shelters in Louisiana after Katrina and Rita. Please congratulate them and their advisors! |
Tricia Wachtendorf - China
Dr. Tricia Wachtendorf recently returned from a two week reconnaissance trip to Sichuan Province, China.
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Joel Best Teaches in Japan
Dr. Joel Best reviews his trip to teach Japanese students.
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China Summary
Yuning (Bonnie) Wu, Ph.D. candidate, went to China for research purposes.
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