Last semester, The Arizona Culture Workshop kicked off with tremendous success! This Spring, we have even more great events planned. We’ll first be hosting a Faculty Auxiliary Session on Wednesday, January 22 at Noon in Social Sciences 415 with Albert Bergesen, UA School of Sociology Director, to discuss his publication "Turning Durkheim on His Head: A Reply to Peterson and Bjerre." Professor Bergesen will talk about the substance of this article, but also about the... Read more
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The Stratification/Inequality workshops serve graduate students and faculty in the School of Sociology and across campus in the process of developing research papers and grant proposals related to inequalities of race, class, and gender. Spring 2014 meetings will be held in Social Sciences 415 from 12p - 1:30p on: Monday, February 17; Wednesday, March 26; and Monday, April 14. For more... Read more Post date: Sat, 01/18/2014 - 11:25 |
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The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is working with the City of Tucson and its nonprofit collaborators to address poverty in Tucson - featuring Lane Kenworthy and Julia Smith. Link to article Post date: Sat, 01/18/2014 - 11:17 |
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The schedule of speakers for the weekly School of Sociology brown bag series is now available here. All sessions will be held in Social Sciences 415 at 12p. Post date: Mon, 01/13/2014 - 13:56 |
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Monica Whitham received two job offers and just accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. Post date: Tue, 01/07/2014 - 09:45 |
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Sociology doctoral candidate Amanda Lubold, M.A., ABD, will be leading a brown bag for the Office of Instruction and Assessment. Teaching Statistics Using Learner Centered StrategiesTuesday, October 22nd For additional details: ... Read more Post date: Thu, 10/17/2013 - 09:10 |
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UA Sociology professor Brian Mayer and Lynn Grattan from the University of Maryland have received two grants for their research on individual and community resiliency following disasters The first grant, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA), provides $500,000 in supplemental funding to expand their joint efforts to collect individual, social network, and community-level data on the recovery from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico... Read more Post date: Fri, 10/04/2013 - 12:01 |
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Ronald Breiger is now working as a co-principal investigator on two newly-awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, both in the area of cyber-security. A two-year, early concept grant (Brinton Milward, PI) integrates cyber data forensics with social network analysis. A three-year research award (Regents Prof. Hsinchun Chen, PI) applies social media analytics and methods for the... Read more Post date: Sun, 09/29/2013 - 05:56 |
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Jessie K. Finch and Celestino Fernández's forthcoming work "Mentoring Graduate Students in Teaching: The FCCIC Model" (to be published in Teaching Sociology) outlines the mentoring model called “From Conception to Co-Instructor to Completion.” This five-step method provides a plan of action for faculty and graduate students who wish to co-... Read more Post date: Sun, 09/15/2013 - 18:29 |
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Though not sponsored by the School of Sociology, these two upcoming lectures may be of interest:
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