In The Spotlight
Congratulations to Rebekah Burroway, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies on her recent honor of being awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director. Also honored, Hannah Judson receiving the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student and Danielle Lucksted receiving the Stony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Wan-Zi Lu on being selected for the NHC Summer Residency Program. Lu will work on her first monograph, The Many Hands of the Healthcare State: The Politics of Valuing Taboo Exchange in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Danial Vahabli has won the Society for the Study of Social Problem ("Triple S P")'s Conflict Social Action and Change Division's Graduate Student Paper Award for his “Mentioning the Unmentionable: Perception of Opportunities, Agency, Emotions, and Identity in Iranian Resistance Rap prior and during the Women, Life, Freedom Uprisings.”
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News & Announcements
Congratulating Aarushi Bhandari ,Ph.D. (SBU 2020) for not only her forthcoming book publication, Attention and Alienation, published by Columbia University Press, but also for receiving the very prestigious NSF Career Award for her project: Mindfulness in the Attention Economy: Individualized and Organizational Solutions to the Globalized Risk of Mental Illness.
Congratulations to Marion Harper on another first-authored publication. It is entitled "Environmental Spending and Forest Loss: An Examination of the Environmental State in Low- and Middle-Income Nations" and will be published in the upcoming issue of Sociology of Development.
Congratulations to Gaelle Aminata Colon on the publication of her article, attached, :"Travels and troubles of intersectionality: understanding the reception of intersectionality in French through a citation analysis" It was published inFrench Politicsas part of a special issue on intersectionality in France.
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In the Media
The Washington State Standard highlighted Dr. Jen Heerwig & Dr. Brian J. McCabe work on Seattle’s Democracy Voucher program!
New Book Examines Seattle Democracy Voucher Program’s Success
Sludge speaks with Dr. Jennifer A. Heerwig, co-author of the book, Democracy Vouchers and the Promise of Fairer Elections in Seattle (Temple University Press, 2024) researching how Seattle's pioneering program has helped boost voter participation and local representation.