Sociology @ Carolina Online News 2008

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

Lala Steelman became the new Chair of the Department.

Brent Simpson and Mathieu Deflem were awarded a sabbatical leave during the 2008-2009 year.

Brent Simpson became Editorial Board Member of Social Psychology Quarterly.

Shane Thye joined the Editorial Board of the Korean Management Review.

Invited Talks

Mathieu Deflem delivered invited lectures at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and spoke at the Université de Montréal in Canada.

Conference Participations

Our Department was very well represented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, with presentations by very many of our best graduate students and faculty.

Shannon McDonough and Mathieu Deflem presented a paper at the SSSP meeting in Boston, where Shannon also delivered a talk from her paper that won the student award of the educational problems division.

Eric Gladstone, Kyle Irwin, and Brent Simpson presented at the annual meeting of the Evolution and Human Behavior Society.

Grants

Brent Simpson received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship (with Kimmo Eriksson).

With graduate student Eric Gladstone, Michael Schillaci, and Adam Teed, Brent Simpson received a grant from the McCausland Center for Brain Imaging.

Publications

Brent Simpson and Robb Willer published in Social Psychology Quarterly. With Tucker McGrimmon, Brent also wrote in Social Networks.

Shane Thye, along with Edward J. Lawler and Jeongkoo Yoon, published in the American Sociological Review.

David Willer and Pamela Emanuelson wrote an article in the Journal of Mathematical Sociology.

Patrick Nolan published with several graduate students (Kyle Irwin, Jennifer Triplet, Shannon McDonough, and Emily Guerrero-Arnold) in Sociation Today. With Gerhard Lenski, he also has a new edition of Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology, and alone he wrote Studying Human Societies: A Primer and Guide, and a review essay in a symposium on U.S. electoral politics in Contemporary Sociology.

Mathieu Deflem published Sociology of Law (Cambridge University Press) and edited Surveillance and Governance (JAI Press). With Richard Featherstone, Suzanne Sutphin, and Yunqing Li, Mathieu also published in the International Journal of Police Science and Management.

Irena Stepanikova and Karen Cook published in Health Services Research.

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

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