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Department of Sociology
Social Sciences 400
P.O.Box 210027
Tucson, AZ 85721-0027
Tel: (520) 621-3531
Fax: (520) 621-9875

Interim Department Head

Dr. Don Grant
Social Sciences 437A
Tel: (520) 621-3466
grantd@email.arizona.edu

News
  • Congratulations to the Bunis & Bowers Award Winners
    05/03/2012 - 17:09
     Congratulations to the recent Bunis and Bowers award winners! The winners of the Raymond Bowers Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper are: 1st prize: Cindy Cain for “Integrating Dark Humor and Compassion: Identities and Presentations of Self in the Front and Back Regions of Hospice” 2nd prize (tie): Taylor Danielson for “The Boundaries...
  • Collaborative Research to be Published
    05/03/2012 - 14:06
     A collaboration between doctoral students Dave Melamed and Eric Schoon and Professor Ron Breiger, entitled "The Duality of Clusters and Statistical Interactions," has been accepted for publication by the journal Sociological Methods and Research.
  • NSF Grant Awarded for Study of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    05/03/2012 - 14:05
     Professor Don Grant has been awarded a grant of $131,338 from the National Science Foundation to study "The Organizational Determinants of Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
  • New Book Released
    05/03/2012 - 13:56
     Jane Zavisca's book, Housing the New Russia, has just been released by Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?gcoi=80140100924090.
  • Jane Zavisca Awarded Research Grant
    04/27/2012 - 14:35
    Jane Zavisca has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry to support research and a symposium on "The Culture of Homeownership in Crisis."
  • Joe Galaskiewicz Awarded NSF Research Grant
    04/25/2012 - 13:22
    Professor Joe Galaskiewicz has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation for his research on non-profit organizations and recession. The $143,000 grant will support research on the impact of the 'Great Recession' on the exodus and closure of nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies in Phoenix-Mesa neighborhoods and the surrounding suburbs.
  • Scott Savage Accepts Position at UC-Riverside
    04/25/2012 - 13:20
    Congratulations to Scott Savage, who has accepted a tenure-track, assistant professor position at the University of California-Riverside, starting Fall 2012.
  • Louise Roth interviewed by UA News ahead of paper publication
    04/18/2012 - 13:05
     In a recent article, UA News interviewed professor Louise Roth about a recently published paper. The results of her research, which explores the impact of cesarean section on women's health, will be published in the May issue of Social Problems.
  • Two Papers Published by Danielle Hedegard
    04/11/2012 - 11:01
     Danielle Hedegard has published two solo-authored papers. "Becoming a Capoeirista: A Situational Approach to Consuming a Foreign Cultural Good." In press at Sociological Inquiry (available online through Early View at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-682X.2012.00415.x/full).   "Finding `Strong' and `Soft' Racial Meanings in Cultural Taste...