SOCIOLOGY SPRING 2008 COLLOQUIUM SERIES
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Sociology News and Sociology in the News

Spring 2008

Christopher Falcone has been selected by the faculty of the Penn Sociology Department to receive this year’s E. Digby Baltzell Award for writing the finest undergraduate thesis among his graduating peers, “Privacy and the Presentation of Self in Online Social Networks.” This award is named for the renowned Penn sociologist and author of Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (1958), The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (1964), and Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). In Baltzell’s honor, we extend our heartiest congratulations to Chris for his hard work and deserved accomplishment. We also extend our gratitude to his advisor, Prof. Robin Leidner, for her learned guidance throughout the many stages of his excellent research project.

Our graduate students - Benjamin DiCicco Bloom, Jacob Avery, Keith Brown, Elizabeth Raleigh, Philip Anglewicz, Alexander Jerneck, Keith Brown, Bridget Nolan, Kristin Turney, will be presenting their research at the the Fourth Annual Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium, to be held on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at Princeton. For more information, panels, and schedule, please follow this link:

http://www.princeton.edu/~iiss2008/

Fall 2007

Dr. Virginia Chang has received a 2007 Physician Faculty Scholars Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  She is one of fifteen medical school faculty nationwide selected for this award.

Fall 2006

Paul Root Wolpe has been elected as a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the oldest medical society in the US. It is rare for a non-physician to get this honor.

Summer 2006

Dr. Joanna Kempner (PhD, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, August 2004) won the Roberta Simmons Award for outstanding dissertation from the Medical Sociology Section of ASA. She was also elected to the Medical Sociology Sector's COuncil as a Member-at-Large.

Dr. Charles Bosk and Dr. Arthur Johnson were selected as co-recipients of the
2006 Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring.

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Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows on the Job Market

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Open Positions and Fellowships - National and International Organizations

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Last Modified: 08-May-2008
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