Sociology @ Carolina Online News 2007

Our Online Department Newsletter, Sociology @ Carolina, provides information about our most important accomplishments, in publishing, research presentations, and other noteworthy achievements, for the benefit of alumni and friends of the Sociology Department and the University of South Carolina. Scroll down or click on an item. 

People | Invited Talks | Conference Presentations | Grants | Publications

People

Shane Thye was promoted to Professor of Sociology. 

Barry Markovsky was a Visiting Professor, Workshop on Group-focused Enmity, during the Summer in Bad Laasphe, Germany.

Invited Talks

Barry Markovsky spoke on the Scholars Day Lecture, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. 

Patrick Nolan delivered the Bruce Mayhew Memorial Lecture on “Phantasmagorical? Reflections on Bruce Mayhew and Structural Sociology,” University of South Carolina. 

Shane Thye delivered a lecture on network indices of power to the Institute for Social Network Analysis at Cornell University. He also traveled to South Korea to speak to the School of Business Administration at Ajou University regarding status characteristics in organizations.

Conference Participations

At the meeting of the American Sociological Association, our Department was again very well represented with presentations by Barry Markovsky, Mathieu Deflem, Patrick Nolan, Brent Simpson, Lala Steelman, Shane Thye, Elena Vesselinov, David Willer, as well as many of our best graduate students, including Jennifer Triplett, Shannon McDonough, Lisa Dilks, Mike Steketee, Kyle Irwin, Suzanne Sutphin, Nick Berigan, Matt Cazessus, Lucy Dai. 

Barry Markovsky, Brent Simpson, Irena Stepanikova, Shane Thye, and David Willer organized the 20th Annual Group Processes Conference in New York City. 

Brent Simpson, with Robb Willer, spoke at the 12th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Seattle, WA. 

Lala Carr Steelman, Pamela Ray Koch, Sophia Catsambis, and Lynn Mulkey, presented a paper at the American Educational Research Association, Chicago. 

Irena Stepanikova spoke at the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, Oakland, CA.

Elena Vesselinov, Elena presented at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Harvard University. She also spoke at the meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, WA; and with Renaud Le Goix, at the 4th International Conference of the Research Network Private Urban Governance and Gated Communities, Paris, France.

Grants

Brent Simpson, with Robb Willer, received a National Science Foundation grant  for research on "Status and the Organization of Collective Action."

Kyle Irwin and Brent Simpson received as Doctoral Dissertation Research grant on "Norm Conformity in Collective Action Groups" from the National Science Foundation. 

Christine Witkowski and Shane Thye received as Doctoral Dissertation Research grant for research on "A Theory and Experimental Test of Collective Action Participation” from the National Science Foundation.

Shelley Smith received an Associate Professor Professional Development Award from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina. 

Publications

David Willer and Henry Walker published their book, Building Experiments: Testing Social Theory. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. The two also published a chapter in the book, Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences. Elsevier. 

Mathieu Deflem edited the book, Sociologists in a Global Age: Biographical Perspectives. Ashgate. Mathieu also wrote an article, with Aytül Kasapoglu and Dennis S. Mileti, in the Journal of Homeland Security; and he contributed to the book, Understanding and Responding to Terrorism, the journal Sociation Today, the Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, the Encyclopedia of Police Science, and the Encyclopedia of Globalization; and with Brian Hudak and with Kyle Irwin, he wrote in Organized Crime: An International Encyclopedia.  

Brent Simpson, with Kimmo Eriksson, published in Journal of Judgment and Decision Making. 

Jimy Sanders wrote in Social Science Research. 

Barry Markovsky, Mathieu Deflem, Jimy Sanders, Shane Thye, and David Willer each contributed to The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer.

Shane Thye wrote in Murray Webster and Jane Sell (eds.), Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences. Elsevier. 

Ken shin published in Korean in a book on Korean Americans in the United States, and in the journal, Journal of Liberal Education. 

Elena Vesselinov wrote with Matthew A. Cazessus and William W. Falk in Journal of Urban Affairs. 

More detailed information can be found on the Faculty pages (CVs).

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