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- John Drysdale, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, will serve as President of the D.C. Sociological Society, starting this fall, for the 2009-2010 term. He is preceded by Enrique S. Pumar, Associate Professor at Catholic University of America (and an AU alumni!).
- Michelle Newton-Francis (PhD, American University) was hired as Visiting Assistant Professor for the Academic Year 2009-2010.
- The Department welcomed Kate Frank, a trained sociologist and cultural anthropologist, as scholar in residence starting fall 2009.
- Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Professor of Sociology, co-organized (with Dr. Tan Lin, of the All China Women's Federation) an international gender conference called Gender and Social Transformation: Global, Transnational and Local Realities and Perspectives. The conference, which was held July 17-19 in Beijing, China, also had sociology faculty Bette Dickerson and Chenyang Xiao present their work.
- In April 2009, Assistant Professors Andrea Brenner and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz received the LGBT and Ally Resource Center Faculty Award for their support to LGBT communities on campus. Brandon Robinson, a graduating senior in sociology, received the academic award at the same ceremony.
- Celine Marie Pascale was awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor spring 2009. Congratulations!
- Sociology students continue to make the Department proud at the College of Arts and Sciences Robyn Rafferty Mathias Student Research Conference. During this spring conference, Katie Beran won the best paper award, and Brandon Robinson won honorable mention.
- In February 2009, New York University Press published The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men, based on the work of late Lionel Cantú Jr., and edited by sociology's Assistant Professor Salvador Vidal-Ortiz (with Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut).
- Associate Professor Bette Dickerson co-edited a special issue (fall 2008) of the International Journal of Sociology of the Family on "Intersectional Analyses of the Family for the 21st Century" (with Marla H. Kohlman, Kenyon College).
- Assistant Professor Salvador Vidal-Ortiz co-edited a special issue (fall 2008) of the Sexualities journal on the topic of "Retheorizing Homophobias" (with Karl Bryant, SUNY-New Paltz).
- The American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Gender and Class awarded (in 2008) then Assistant Professor Celine Marie Pascale the award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award for her 2007 book Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender (Routledge).
