News

  • Alok Nadig has won a Fall 2011 Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant for his project Legal Implications of Gendered Conceptions of Homosexuality in India in the Past Ten Years.
  • Bruce Carruthers has been named to a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair (2011).
  • Georgi Derlugian has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, an honorary doctorate, from the University of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, 2011. The university is located in one of Georgi's field sites: the man who was central to his book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus, for instance, was a native of Kabardino-Balkaria.
  • James Mahoney, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, has won four major awards from the American Sociological Association and American Political Science Association for his book Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective.
  • Steven Epstein has been elected Chair of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, for a two-year term to commence in 2013.
  • Nicola Beisel, Georgi Derluguian, Steven Epstein, and Karrie Snyder have been selected by students for this year's Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.
  • Erin McDonnell has won the Art Stinchcombe Dissertation Prize in Organization Studies from the Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern group.
  • Robert Vargas (PhD candidate) won the 2011 Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for his paper "Locking Up Social Order: Incarceration, Organizational Leadership, and Street Corner Violence."
  • Professor John Hagan was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is a tremendous honor and another affirmation of the great community of scholars at Northwestern. Four others at Northwestern were elected, including our new President.
  • Professor Gary Fine has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010.

Events

Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Law in Motion: Legal Studies Lecture Series
February 23, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Ethnography Workshop: Jennifer Jones, Ohio State University
February 28, 2012 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Colloquium: Timothy Hallett, PhD - Indiana University
March 29, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Colloquium: Elizabeth Bruch, PhD - University of Michigan
April 5, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Klopsteg Lecture: GEOFFREY BOWKER
April 16, 2012 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Colloquium: Claude Fischer, PhD - University of California, Berkeley
April 19, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Colloquium: Will van den Hoonaard, PhD - University of New Brunswick
May 3, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Klopsteg Lecture: NAOMI ORESKES
May 4, 2012 • 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Colloquium: Holly McCammon, PhD - Vanderbilt University
May 10, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

December 15, 2011