Graduate Students
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During the years 2009-2011, advanced Ph.D. students (post second year; N=25-30 per year) had 65 publications, including 53 articles and chapters, delivered 122 papers at national or regional meetings, and received 26 awards from national or specialty professional groups. During the 2010-2011 academic year, six of the SBU Sociology graduate students were active in the professional job market: four accepted offers of tenure track jobs at research universities and one received an ACLS post-doctoral fellowship. Check out our Ph.D.s currently on the market.
External Grants and Awards
Fernanda Page-Poma won a SSRC Drugs, Security and Democracy fellowship (2012)
Rachel Kalish wins President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student (2012)
Josh Murray won an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (2011)
Department Awards
Fernanda Page-Poma won the 2012 Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award (2012)
Michael Restivo won the 2012 Tanur Dissertation Fellowship Award (2012)
2011-2012 Graduates
Brooke Ellison, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Josh Murray, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University
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Year 1 Cohort ('12) |
Year 2 Cohort ('11) |
Year 3 Cohort ('10) |
Year 4 Cohort ('09) |
| Carolyn Coburn Melissa Cole Markus Gerke Julius Harder Kent Henderson Kyra Holland Deniz Ilhan Brendan Lannon Vanessa Lynn Jamie Puglin |
Carlos Encina Oleart Ensieh Eftekhari Clifford Leek Heidi Rademacher Hyang-Gi Song Suzan Walters |
Clayton Fordahl Hewan Girma Kenneth Pierce Sasha Rodriguez |
Elizabeth Nagel |
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Year 5 Cohort ('08) |
Year 6+ |
Advanced: |
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| Afife Akin Bethany Coston Doreen Pierce Helen Jolly Bilge Sanli Gianmarco Savio Rose Sayre |
Theresa Tiso | Florencia Arancibia Umasundari Akella Diana Baldermann Tarun Banerjee Gaston Beltran Amy Braksmajer Paul Bugyi Deidre Caputo-Levine Misty Curreli Can Ersoy Amy Graglia Gayle Green Ryan Hubbell Rachel Kalish Amanda Kennedy Soyon Kim |
Prita Lal |
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356, tel.: +1 (631) 632-7700
