Communities:

Yours, Mine and Ours April 29, 2011

Presented by

Department of Sociology University of Minnesota

909 Social Sciences Building Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-624-4300 www.soc.umn.edu

A WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Colleagues, Alumni and Friends,

On behalf of the faculty and students of the Department of Sociology, I would like to welcome you to our annual SRI. Each year, SRI celebrates our intellectual community and the research, teaching, and service achievements of our students, faculty and staff. Most importantly, SRI provides a forum for our students to discuss their research and debate current issues in the discipline.

This year we are honored that Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania,

will be providing the keynote address. Professor Lareau is one of the foremost experts on social class and family life. Her current project considers how parents with young children decide where to live. It is insights into this new project that we will have the privilege to hear in her keynote address, “Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress.” We hope you can join us for what will be an exceptional presentation.

Please join me in celebrating another dynamic and creative year of accomplishments.

Warm regards, Chris Uggen Professor and Chair

SRI COMMITTEES

SRI Committee: Professors Jeff Broadbent and Enid Logan; graduate students Sarah Lageson and Hollie Nyseth; undergraduate students Michael Blix, Ryan Parenteau, Jacob Tache and Erika Trask; staff member Mary Drew. Graduate Student Research Paper Award: Professors Jeff Broadbent and Josh Page; graduate student, Kirsten O’Brien. Undergraduate Student Research Paper Award: Professor Gabrielle Ferrales; graduate students, Kyle Green and Darin Mather. Graduate Instructor Award: Undergraduate student, Michael Blix; graduate students, Anne Kaduk and Shawn Wick. Graduate & Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards: Graduate students, Suzy Maves McElrath and Madison Van Oort; undergraduate student, Ryan Parenteau. Department Service Award: Graduate Students Hollie Nyseth and Sarah Lageson. Faculty Mentoring Award: Graduate students, Abby Hagel and Kia Heise. Engaged Scholarship Award: Graduate students, Kristin Haltinner and Laurie Knies. Public Sociology Award: Professors Enid Logan and Chris Uggen.

SPECIAL THANKS Department Staff: Kerrie Deef, Mary Drew, Robert Fox, Melissa Mason, Ann Miller, Hilda Mork, Tony Odufuye, Letta Page, Jane Peterson, Becky Mooney, Emily Philipp, and Holly Schoonover.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IN BRIEF

Friday, April 29 Hubert H. Humphrey Center Atrium & Conference Center

9:00 — 9:15 am Check-in and light breakfast

9:15 —10:15 am Panel Session I 1A. Contestation, Conversion and the Politics of

Consumption (room 180) 1B. Community Service Learning as a Capstone

Experience (room 184) 1C. Child and Youth Experiences in Social Context

(room 186) 10:15 — 10:30 am Break

10:30 — 12:00 pm Program & Keynote address - Cowles Auditorium

Welcome: James Parente, Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Public Sociology Award Presentation

Keynote Address: Annette Lareau Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on

a Work in Progress

12:00 — 1:00 pm Lunch — Atrium (rsvp required)

1:00 — 2:00 pm Panel Session II 2A. Women, Men & Hippies: Revisiting the Feminist

Scholarship of Helen Hacker (room 180) 2B. Immigration and Entrepreneurs (room 186)

2C. Global and Transnational Sociology (room 184)

2:00 — 2:15 pm Break

2:15 — 3:15 pm Panel Session III 3A. Contemporary Representations and

Management of US Marginalities (room 186) 3B. Crime, Stigma and Control (room 180) 3C. Sociology in the “Real World” (room 184)

7:00-10:00 pm Reception, Awards Ceremony, & Grad Student Program (rsvp required) Hubert H. Humphrey Atrium

MORNING PANEL SESSIONS

All session are in the Humphrey Center

9:00-9:15 CHECK IN AND LIGHT BREAKFAST

9:15-10:15 PANEL SESSION I

A. CONTESTATION, CONVERSION AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION (180) Presider: Teresa Gowan Kyle Green and Madison Van Oort, “We Wear, We Wear, We Wear No

Pants”: The Crisis of Masculinity in the 2010 Super Bowl Commercials.

Sian Butcher, Constructing the Postapartheid Consumer: Tracking a Discursive Genealogy of South Africa's 'Black Diamonds.’

Sinan Erensu, “Water Flows Turk Stares": Green Energy Developments and Water Dispossession in Turkish Black Sea Coast.

Dan Winchester, “They’re a part of who I am:” Icons, Experience, and the Place of Things in the Making of Religious Selves.

B. COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING AS A CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE (184) Presider: Doug Hartmann Mageen Caines, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Jose Gallardo, Clues Language and Mentoring Program Trischa Heitman, Heading Home Hennepin: Youth Homelessness Nicole Saffert, New Brighton Schools Afterschool Lifeskills/Community

Partnership with Youth Emily Valentine-Grimm and Stephan Pyskir, Communities United Against

Police Brutality

C. CHILD AND YOUTH EXPERIENCES IN SOCIAL CONTEXT (186) Presider: Sarah Shannon Ashly Rieland, Childhood Out-of-Home Placement: Assessment Process as

Contributing Factors to Racial Disparities. Jeff Brown, Sport-Based Interventions in Community and Youth Programs. Betsy Priem, The Effects of the Hijab on College Female Body Image.

10:15-10:30 BREAK

10:30-12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Cowles Auditorium (off Humphrey Center Atrium)

Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania, Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools:

Reflections on a Work in Progress 12:00-1:00 LUNCH – Humphrey Center Atrium – rsvp required

AFTERNOON PANEL SESSIONS

1:00-2:00 PANEL SESSION II A. WOMEN, MEN & HIPPIES: REVISITING THE FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP

OF HELEN HACKER (180) Short introduction by Chris Uggen Heather McLaughlin, Women as a Minority Group Tim Ortyl, Homosexuals as a Minority Group Kyle Green,The New Burdens of Masculinity Anne Kaduk, Marital Power Cross-Culturally Kia Heise, Class and Race Differences in Gender Roles Daniel Winchester, Clergymen and Hippies

B. IMMIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURS (186) Presider: Ryan Alaniz Shivan Hanuman, African Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Impact on the

Community. Roda Hassan, Entrepreneurship and Local Support in the African

Communities. Lidiya Girma, African Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Search for

Belonging in the Greater Twin Cities. C. GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (184)

Presider: Wes Longhofer Meghan Zacher, Remembering Darfur: The US State Department, Non-

Governmental Organizations, & the Role of the ICC Darfur. Yi Zhan, Social Networks and the Job Attainment Process in China. Jennifer Sau, The Effects of Worldwide Abortion Policies on Fertility Levels. Amy Alsup, Discourses of Religion & Revolution: Opinion Pieces in

Nicaragua’s La Prensa During the Sandinista Government. 2:00-2:15 BREAK 2:15-3:15 PANEL SESSION III

A. CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS & MANAGEMENT OF US MARGINALITIES (186) Discussant: Sarah Whetstone Myrl Beam, At the Limits of “By and For”: Space, Struggle, and The Non-

Profitization of Queer Youth. Madison Van Oort, Managing the 'Recovery': Job Searching in the Twin Cities. Hui Wilcox, Stories of Hmong Farmers: Discursive Construction of Hmong

American Identities and Realities. Rachel Grewell, The Preference for Local in Food Aid: Tracing Discourse

through the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. B. CRIME, STIGMA AND SOCIAL CONTROL (180)

Presider: Heather McLaughlin Luke Schieve, A Comparative Analysis of Secular and Religious Terrori Rica Rachut, Establishing Trust in Problematic Exchange Relationships:

Interactions between Officers and Informants. Sarah Lageson, Employer Decisions Regarding Criminal Records: A

Comparison of Self-Reported and Observed Behavior. C. SOCIOLOGY IN THE “REAL WORLD” (184)

A panel of Ph.D. alumni discuss how they found jobs with a sociology degree and how they use sociology in their nonprofit, government, and corporate positions. A Spring 2011 Contexts article by Hollie Nyseth, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy Maves, “Embedded Sociologists,” is highlighted.

7:00 PM RECEPTION AND AWARDS CEREMONY – Humphrey atrium

KEYNOTE ADRESS

Professor Annette Lareau

“Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress”

Annette Lareau is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of both African-Americans and European-Americans. She is also credited with the creation of the term concerted cultivation. This concept refers to middle class child rearing practices. She says that this differs from the parents of children in working class families, who attribute much of their child raising tactics to the accomplishment of natural growth.

Her field research is the basis for her book Unequal Childhoods, which explained in detail her research and interviews with 88 children and their parents. The subjects included white and black children from middle class, working class, and poor families. Through her observations she discovered differences in parenting styles that related to class distinctions. Specifically, she observed how different family circumstances influenced the children's performance and interactions in and out of school. Her findings allowed her to draw a major distinction between the parenting styles of working class / poor parents and middle class parents. In this book,

she highlights the benefits and shortcomings of raising children through either concerted cultivation or natural growth. She is also the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education, coeditor of Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork, coeditor of Social Class: How Does it Work? and coeditor of Educational Research on Trial.

Annette Lareau will provide the keynote address and discussion of her most recent work. In Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress, she will present some insight into her study of how parents with young children decide where to live and particularly what role schools play in this decision.

NEWS

Teresa Gowan is this year’s recipient of the CLA Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching Award. This award acknowledges faculty who give themselves generously in advising, counseling, and directing projects and who create an active classroom atmosphere. As one of her students said, “The time and dedication Teresa Gowan gives to students is what marks the University of Minnesota as a great school. Those lucky enough to take a course with her are affected for the rest of their lives.” The formal presentation of this award was in

December during the undergraduate commencement ceremony. Jeylan Mortimer will receive the 2011 Cooley-Mead Award at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), August 20-23 in Las Vegas. This award is the highest honor conferred by the ASA’s Social Psychology Section to honor long-term contributions of a sociologist to the field of social psychology.

Carl Malmquist will receive the 2011 Isaac Ray Award at the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), May 14-18 in Honolulu. This award has been presented annually by the APA since 1952 to acknowledge a person of outstanding accomplishment in psychiatry and jurisprudence.

Carolyn Liebler joined our faculty this fall as a tenure-track assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Carolyn’s work focuses on race and ethnicity, with a particular emphasis on American Indians. Several of her ongoing research projects address aspects of the complex translation from racial identities of individuals to race statistics describing a society, a process which is complicated by changes in identities and changes in questionnaire wording.

Karl Krohn, retired this year after over thirty years of service to the department as our Info Tech Professional. In honor of his dedication, we have named the Data Center after him and wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement.

CONTEXTS & THE SOCIETY PAGES

For the past three and one half years, Contexts, the award-winning ASA publication, has been produced here at the University of Minnesota under the editorship of Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen.

Contexts’ combination of accessible, peer-reviewed features with shorter pieces exploring cultural phenomena, demographic trends, recent publications, and essays from prominent sociologists is bringing sociology to broader public visibility and influence. The Spring issue, due out May 15, includes features on poverty, women in science, real utopias, and the Sacco and Vanzetti trial as well as culture reviews on Eat Pray Love and the Tea Party. There is also an article written by members of the graduate student board about “Embedded Sociologists.”

In the past year, the Contexts crew has also introduced a new companion website, The Society Pages (thesocietypages.org). The website, which debuted to wide online acclaim and some keen media interest, now boasts over one million page views per month. Much of what was pioneered in Contexts is continued on The Society Pages, including overwhelmingly popular blogs like Sociological Images, our top-quality podcasts, and our student-produced sightings and citings features. In the spirit of the rigorous,

relevant work found in Contexts, the hope is to create a new generation of freely available, original material on an array of topics

in an even more flexible, accessible, and timely format. As 2011 marks the final volume of Contexts at the University of Minnesota, it is appropriate to recognize the graduate students who’ve served on the graduate student board that has been the heart, soul, and engine of the enterprise since 2007.

Ryan Alaniz Arturo Baiocchi Erika Busse Amelia Cotton Corl Keith A. Cunnien Sinan Erensu Shannon Golden Kyle Green Kristin Haltinner Kia Heise Meghan Krausch Sarah Lageson Wesley Longhofer

Liying Luo Suzy Maves McElrath Heather McLaughlin Jeremy Minyard Hollie Nyseth Timothy Ortyl Sarah Shannon Chika Shinohara Jon Smajda Daniel Winchester Jesse Wozniak Chen-Yu (Andy) Wu

CONTEXTS & THE SOCIETY PAGES (continued)

Each of these students has made invaluable contributions to Contexts, whether serving as graduate student editors, creating insightful discoveries with unforgettable titles, bringing us into the Internet Age, or helping usher sometimes bashful or awkward social scientists through informative interviews. In addition to all of the usual tasks, this year’s board took on several special assignments. These included doing the nominations for the inaugural “Excellence in Contexts” award—the “Claudes,” as they are affectionately called after Contexts’ founding editor Claude Fischer—and working on the second edition of the Contexts Reader. The new reader, due out from W.W. Norton this summer (just in time for fall course adoptions) was an exceptionally large and rewarding undertaking. The group selected 45 articles that appeared during the Minnesota editorship to update and invigorate the Reader’s new edition and produced (with Kia Heise and Hollie Nyseth’s leadership) a new set of teaching exercises and discussion questions. As we turn our focus to The Society Pages over the coming months, we invite your comments and contributions. The U of M Sociology Department’s intellectual community and its commitment to bringing sociology into the wider world will continue to be driving inspirations.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

Lindsey Beltt Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant (UROP), “Competing Discourses of Addiction in Popular Memoirs,” with Teresa Gowan.

Tiffany Chen 2011-12 CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarship

Shivan Hanuman Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant (UROP), “Liberian and Somali Entrepreneurs and Their Impact on Community,” with Lisa Park.

Regan Sieck

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant (UROP), “Understanding Health Disparities Among Immigrant Children: A Multi-groups, Multi-levels Analysis,” with Ross Macmillian.

Joy Williams Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant (UROP), “Determining Success in Juvenile Justice Reentry,” with Joshua Page.

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

Ryan Alaniz 2011. Fulbright Alumni Ambassador. United States Department of State.

2010-2011. Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Boulder National PERISHIP Award--Dissertation Fellowship in Disasters.

Amy Alsup 2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “Discourses of the Sandinista Revolution: An Analysis of two Nicaraguan Newspapers from 1979-1990” with Penny Edgell.

Arta Ankrava 2011-2012. American Latvian Association Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies, IHRC.

2011. Professional Development Reimbursement. Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

2011. DGS Discretionary Funds Award. Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Yu-Ju Chien 2010-11. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Scott DeMuth 2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “Terrorizing Dissent: The AETA and Social Movements” with David Pellow.

Shannon Golden 2010-2011. International Thesis Research Grand. Graduate School, University of Minnesota.

2010-2011. Hawkinson Scholarship. Vincent L. Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice.

Rachel Grewell

2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “Food Insecurity, Access, and the Community Goof Movement: An Ethnographic Assessment of the Farmers Market Nutrition Program” with Rachel Schurman.

Abby Hagel

2010. “Writing for the Community: Investigating Student Attitudes Toward Writing in the Social Sciences” (with Teresa Gowan), Center for Writing's Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing, summer research grant.

Elaine Hernandez 2010-11. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota.

Jin Woong Kang 2010. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize, “North Korea’s Post-War Militant Nationalism and People’s Everyday Lives: Past and Present.”

Minzee Kim 2010-11. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota.

Laurie Knies

2011. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “The Role of Childhood Sickness in Stratifying Adult Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from Late 19th Century America” with Rob Warren.

Meghan Krausch

2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “Rethinking Social Change: Toward a More Nuanced Theory of Movement, Social Science, and Modernity” with Doug Hartmann.

Sarah Lageson

2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “Employer Decisions Regarding Criminal Records: A Comparison of Self-Reported and Observed Behavior” with Chris Uggen.

Wesley Longhofer 2010-11. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota.

Darin Mather 2010. Bradley Foundation - grant for research on religion and tolerance.

2010. College of Liberal Arts Thesis Research Grant, University of Minnesota.

Suzy Maves McElrath

2010-2011. Beverly & Richard Fink Graduate Fellowship in the Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota.

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Ryan Alaniz Alaniz, Ryan and Peter Daly. 2011. “Volunteering in Honduras: A Practical Guide” in Volunteerism in Central America edited by Douglas J. Moody. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England. (Forthcoming)

Alaniz, Ryan. 2010. “’Thank God for Mitch:’ Lessons from Post-Mitch Honduras for Post-earthquake Haiti.” Essays from the Field. Washington D.C.: Social Science Research Council.

Arta Ankrava

Ankrava, Arta. 2011. "Negotiation of Latvian Identity in London’s Latvian Community" in Oral History: Migration and Local Identities, Ieva Garda Rozenberga, Mara Zirnite (eds.), pp. 120-138. Riga: National Oral History Archive, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia.

Suzy Maves McElrath

2010. Don Martindale Scholarship Award, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Ryan Moltz 2010-11. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Hollie Nyseth 2010-2013. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. “Never Again: Assessing Preconditions of Genocide.”

2011. NSF Travel Grant.

2010. Vincent Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice Fellowship.

2010. Human Rights and Transitional Justice Grant from Human Rights Program.

Madison Van Oort 2010. Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP). “Job Support Networks, Masculinity, and the Economic Recession” with Teresa Gowan.

Tim Ortyl 2011-12. National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.

2011. Minnesota Population Center Travel Award. University of Minnesota.

2011. Professional Development Award, Dept. of Sociology. University of Minnesota.

Raphi Rechitsky 2010-2011. Fulbright Program in Ukraine.

Sarah Whetstone 2010. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Shawn Wick 2010. Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award. Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.

Daniel Winchester 2010-11. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Minnesota.

Jesse Wozniak 2010. University of Minnesota Council of Graduate Students Travel Award.

2010. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. 2010. Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship – Finalist. Xi Zhu 2010-11. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship.

GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Erika Busse Bastia, Tanja and Erika Busse. 2011. “Transnational Migration and Changing Gender Relations in Peruvian and Bolivian Cities,” Diversities: International Journal on Multicultural Societies 13(1): 19-33.

Busse, Erika. 2010. Review of “Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal” with a selection of her poems by Kathleen Waever. International Feminist Journal of Politics (Forthcoming).

Busse, Erika and Rodrigo Lovatón. 2011. “Peruvian Americans.” Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans, edited by Ronald H. Bayor. ABC-CLIO-Greenwood Press (Forthcoming).

Shannon Golden Golden, Shannon, Yasin Garad, and Elizabeth Heger Boyle. 2011. "Experiences of Somali Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from the Twin Cities", Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies 10:89-102.

Kyle Green Green, Kyle. 2011 "It Hurts So It is Real: Sensing the Seduction of Mixed Martial Arts." Social & Cultural Geography. (special issue on The Limits of the Body).

Andrew Halpern-Manners

Halpern-Manners, Andrew. 2011. “The Effects of Family Member Migration on Education and Work among Nonmigrant Youth in Mexico.” Demography 48(1):73-99.

Rachelle Hill Moen, Phyllis, Erin Kelly and Rachelle Hill. 2011. “Opting to Stay: Does a Work-Time Control Intervention Reduce Turnover?” Social Problems 58(1):69-98.

Moen, Phyllis, Stephen Sweet, and Rachelle Hill. 2010. “Risk, Resilience, and Life-Course Fit: Older Couples’ Encores Following Job Loss.” Pp. 283-309 in Resilient Aging. Edited by P.S. Fry & C.L. Keyes Cambridge University Press: NY.

Jin Woong Kang Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “North Korea’s Militant Nationalism and People’s Everyday Lives: Past and Present.” Journal of Historical Sociology (Forthcoming).

Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “The Disciplinary Politics of Antagonistic Nationalism in Militarized South and North Korea.” Sociological Inquiry (Forthcoming).

Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “Political Uses of Confucianism in North Korea,” Journal of Korean Studies 16(1):63-87.

Kang, Jin Woong. 2011. “Becoming South Korean: South Korea’s Disciplinary Governance and North Korean Settlers’ Identity Formation” Korean Journal of Sociology 45(1):191-227 (in Korean).

Kang, Jin Woong. 2010. “The State and Family in the Two Koreas: The Change of the State System and the Transformation of Familism,” Korean Journal of Sociology 44(5):139-175 (in Korean).

Jin Woong Kang. 2010. “A Micro-Approach to North Korean State Power: Militant Nationalism and People’s Lives,” Korean Journal of Sociology 44(2):155-194 (in Korean).

Wes Longhofer Schofer, Evan, David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, and Wesley Longhofer. 2011. “Sociological Institutionalism and World Society.” In The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Edwin Amenta, Kate Nash, and Alan Scott. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (Forthcoming).

Darin Mather Mather, Darin M. 2011. “Divided by Age? Generational Shifts in White Evangelical Christians' Attitudes Towards Racial Diversity” Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 7:1-23.

GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Suzy Maves McElrath

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy McElrath. 2011. "Embedded Sociologists." Contexts(Forthcoming).

Hollie Nyseth Boyle, Elizabeth and Hollie Nyseth. 2011. “Analyzing the Power of Child Rights Discourse in the Global Community.” Human Rights: New Possibilities/New Problems, edited by Austin Sarat (Forthcoming).

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy Maves. 2011. “Embedded Sociologists.” Contexts, Spring.

Savelsberg, Joachim and Hollie Nyseth. 2011. “Collective Representations of Atrocity and National Identity: The Case of Darfur.” Festschrift fuer Max Haller, edited by Markus Hadler and Franz Hoellinger (Forthcoming).

Kristen O’Brien Swartz, Teresa Toguchi, Mayumi Uno, Jeylan Mortimer, Minzee Kim and Kirsten Bengtson O’Brien. 2011. “Safety Nets and Scaffolds: Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Marriage and Family 73(2): 414-429.

Tim Ortyl Ortyl, Tim and Kia Hiese. 2010. The Sociology of Sex (An Exchange with Pepper Schwartz). Contexts 9(3): 14-15.

Raphi Rechitsky Rechitsky, Raphi. 2010 “Rethinking Social Exclusion and Belonging in Global Perspective: The Case of Transnational Migrants in Ukraine” Political Perspectives Special Issue on Migration and Belonging 4(2): 86-104.

Sarah Shannon Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Christopher Uggen. 2011. "Imprisonment as a Political Institution in the United States." Chapter for Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology (2nd ed.) (Forthcoming).

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy McElrath. 2011. "Embedded Sociologists." Contexts (Forthcoming).

Shannon, Sarah K.S. 2010. "Dereliction of Duty: Training Schools for Delinquent Parents in the 1940s." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 37:11-27.

Jon Smajda Smajda, Jon. 2011. "Open Source and the Moral Field of Computing." Journal of Information Technology and Politics (Forthcoming).

Smajda, Jon. 2011. “Publish Early, Publish Often, Publish Online.” CUSS Newsletter, Community & Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association 23 (2).

Sarah Whetstone Whetstone, Sarah and Teresa Gowan. 2011. "Diagnosing the Criminal Addict: Biochemistry in the Service of the State" in Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 12: Sociology of Diagnosis. Edited by P. J. McGann and David J. Hutson. Howard House, Bingley, UK: Emerald Books (Forthcoming).

Gowan, Teresa and Sarah Whetstone. 2011. "Making the Criminal Addict: Subjectivity and Social Control in a Strong-Arm Rehab." Punishment & Society. (Forthcoming.)

Daniel Winchester Winchester, Daniel and Steven Hitlin. 2010. “The Good, the Bad, and the Social.” Contexts 9(4):40-44.

Neitz, Mary Jo, Kevin L. McElmurry, and Daniel Winchester. 2010. “New Sociological Narratives of Morality under Modernity: From Subtraction to Multiplicity.” Pp. 181-190 in Routledge’s Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Eds. John Hall, Laura Grindstaff, & Ming-cheng Lo. New York: Routledge.

Xi Zhu Knoke, David, and Xi Zhu. 2011. “Interest Groups and Pluralism.” In The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford, UK: Blackwell (Forthcoming).

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Ryan Alaniz 2011. “Unsupervised Recovery: Post-Disaster NGO Recovery and Adaptation Strategies in Honduras.” 2011 Summer Academy: Climate Change and Fragile States: Rethinking Adaptation. Sponsored by--United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security and Munich RE. Schloss Hohenkammer, Germany. July.

2011. “They Got the Best and We Got the Rest: Selection and Long-term Social Health in Post-Disaster Communities.” Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Boulder, CO. July.

2010. “Sustainable Post-Disaster Development: Theory-Building and Practical Applications.” Social Science Research Council IDRF Conference, Denver, CO. October.

2010. “Life and Research Abroad.” Institute for International Education Conference for the Western Hemisphere. Washington D.C. June.

2010. “Post-desastre Desarrollo a Largo Plazo de Honduras a El Salvador.” Conferencia Tragedia y Oportunidad. Divina Providencia, Honduras. May.

2010. “A Tale of Two Cities: An Analysis of Long-term Post-disaster Community Development.” Fulbright Conference, Central American Section. El Valle, Panama. March.

Arta Ankrava 2011. “Negotiating Latvian Identity in London’s Latvian Community: toward Reinventing Diaspora”, Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge, University College London, Interdisciplinary conference on migration jointly organized by the NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), April 6-9.

Caren Arbeit 2010. Wruck, Peter J. and Caren A. Arbeit. “Blurring the Lines Between Secondary and Post-Secondary Learning: Contours and Consequences.” Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C.

2010. Stefanie Deluca and Caren Arbeit. "Reconsidering the Role of Vocational Education: Stratification and Student Pathways" American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, L.A.

Erika Busse 2011. “Gendered Social Capital in the Ethnic Enclave: The Paradox of Peruvian Immigrant’s Family Reunification Plans” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 10-23, Las Vegas, NV.

2010. “Left behind in Lima: Gender, Status, and Intensive Mothering among Peruvian Immigrant Wives” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 14-17, Atlanta, GA.

Lara Cleveland 2010. “Variance Estimation: Drawing Statistical Inferences from International Census Data.” IPUMS Latin America III Workshop. Havana, Cuba. November 14.

Lara Cleveland 2010. “GIS: Integrated Geo-statistical Units.” IPUMS Latin America III Workshop. Havana, Cuba. November 14.

2010. “Drawing Statistical Inferences from International Census Data.” Session: Statistical Issues in Population Studies. Joint Statistical Meetings. Vancouver, BC, Canada. August 4.

Shannon Golden 2010. “Community Reconstruction in Northern Uganda" at the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies Colloquium, Gulu University.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Kyle Green 2010. "Talking on the Mat: Mixed Martial Arts & the Emergence of Narrating Men." Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (San Diego) – Paper Presentation in Section on Producing Athletic Extremes: Studies of Sports Culture at the Outer Limits.

2010. "Exploring the Limits of the Body: An Ethnographic Inquiry into the Role of Pain in Mixed Martial Arts." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (Atlanta) – Paper Presentation in Section on Body and Embodiment.

Rachel Grewell 2011. “Food Insecurity, Food Access, and the Community Food Movement: An Ethnographic Assessment of the Minneapolis Farmers’ Market,” The Joint Annual Meetings of the AFHVS, ASFS, & SAFN, Missoula, Montana, June 9 – 12.

Kristin Haltinner 2010. Haltinner, Kristin. “Nativism in Post-Racial USAmerica.” Joint Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society and the North Central Sociological Association, March 31-April 1.

2010. Haltinner, Kristin and Teresa Gowan. “Family, Resocialization and Race.” Joint Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society and the North Central Sociological Association, March 31-April 1.

Elaine Hernandez 2011. Elaine M. Hernandez. “The Unintended Consequences of Biomedical Advances: Socioeconomic Gradients in Health Behaviors Among Pregnant Women.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (August 2010) and the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (March).

Rachelle Hill 2010. Hill, Rachelle, Eric Tranby, Erin Kelly, and Phyllis Moen. “Making Changes or Feeling Like You Can: How Parents Respond to a Workplace Culture Change Initiative.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Regular Session on Shifting Dynamics: Parenthood, Employment Trends, and Marriage. Atlanta, GA August 14th-17th.

2010. Flood, Sarah, Rachelle Hill, and Katie Genadek. “Health Patterns of Daily Life: A Multinomial Logit Latent Class Analysis.” International Association for Time Use Research Annual Meeting, Session on Health. Paris, France. July 7th-10th.

2010. Hill, Rachelle, Eric Tranby, Erin Kelly, and Phyllis Moen. “Making Changes or Feeling Like You Can: How Parents Respond to a Workplace Culture Change Initiative.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting,Session on Work Environment and Work-Family Conflict. Dallas, TX. April 15th-17th.

Jin Woong Kang 2010. “The Disciplinary Politics of Antagonistic Nationalism in the Two Militarized Koreas,” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asia Affairs, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 1-3.

Meg Krausch

2011. Krausch, Meghan, and Douglas Hartmann. “Revitalizing Social Movement Theory by Rethinking Social Change.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Panel Session on Social Movements. St. Louis, MO.

2010. Rechitsky, Raphi, Meghan Krausch, and David Naguib Pellow. “Anarchists as Domestic Enemies, Academic Research as Conspiracy: Old Tropes in a Recent ‘Green Scare’ Case.” Equal Justice Alliance Speaker Series. Conference call.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

2010. Rechitsky, Raphi, Meghan Krausch, and David Naguib Pellow. “Anarchists as Domestic Enemies, Academic Research as Conspiracy: Old Tropes in a Recent ‘Green Scare’ Case.” Third Annual Conference on “Rightist” Movements, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Sarah Lageson 2010. “Employer Decisions Regarding Criminal Records: A Comparison of Self-Reported and Observed Behavior.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA.

Wes Longhofer 2011. Longhofer, Wes, Minzee Kim, Hollie Nyseth, and Elizabeth H. Boyle. “Child Rights, Population Policies, and Adolescent Fertility,1989-2006” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August.

2011. Kim, Minzee, Wes Longhofer, Elizabeth H. Boyle and Hollie Nyseth. “Transnational Legal Orders and Child Rights: The Case of Youth Marriage and Fertility.” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, San Francisco, June.

Darin Mather

2010. "Tolerance Delimited: Dimensions of Tolerant Attitudes." by Darin Mather and Eric Tranby at the Moberg Conference on Sociological Perspectives on Reconciliation.

2010. “Gender Equality in Religious Education: A Comparative Study of Catholic, Evangelical and Secular Private Schools in Guatemala." Paideia Forum.

Hollie Nyseth 2011. Savelsberg, Joachim and Hollie Nyseth, “Collective Representations of Atrocity and National Identity: The Case of Darfur.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August.

2011. Longhofer, Wes, Minzee Kim, Hollie Nyseth, and Elizabeth H. Boyle, “Child Rights, Population Policies, and Adolescent Fertility.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August, Las Vegas.

2011. Brehm, Mike and Hollie Nyseth. “Genocide and Early Warning Systems.” International Political Science Association Conference for Human Rights, War, and Peace after the Cold War. Seoul, South Korea, June.

2011. Longhofer, Wes, Minzee Kim, Elizabeth H. Boyle and Hollie Nyseth. “Transnational Legal Orders and Child Rights: The Case of Youth Marriage and Fertility.” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, San Francisco, June.

2010. “Modern Genocide.” Tilburg University Sociology Department Colloquium.

2010. Pellow, David and Hollie Nyseth, “Framing Earth and Animal Liberation Movements.” University of Minnesota Sociology Department Workshop.

Tim Ortyl

2011. Ortyl, Timothy. “Constructing Queer Families: An Ethnographic Analysis of an LGBTQ Families Conference.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO.

Tim Ortyl

2011. Carolyn Liebler and Timothy Ortyl. “Changing Questions, Changing Races: New Indigenous People in Contemporary America.” Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC.

2011. “Heterosexual Subjectivities & Heteronormativity in the Study of Gender & Sexualities.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Panel on New Directions in Sexualities Research, Las Vegas, August.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Tim Ortyl 2011. Kathleen Hull & Timothy Ortyl. “Same-Sex Marriage and Constituent Perceptions of the LGBT Rights Movement.” Annual Meeting of Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, August.

Sarah Shannon 2011. Shannon, Sarah, Christopher Uggen, Melissa Thompson. "Growth in the U.S. Ex-Felon and Ex-Prisoner Population, 1948-2010." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC. April.

2010. Shannon, Sarah K.S. "Thinking About Re-entry From the Perspective of Chemical Health Clients." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA. November.

2010. Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Joshua Page. "Prison Officer Job Satisfaction and Attitudes Toward Rehabilitation." Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA. November.

Andria Strano 2010. Andria Strano. "Differently Gendered (Dyk)otomies, Regional Femininities, and Valued Masculinity in Women." at Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies. Bloomington, Indiana. November 7.

Daniel Winchester 2010. Winchester, Dan and Iddo Tavory. “The Orthodox Paradox: Experiential Careers of Jewish and Muslim Converts.” Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. August.

Peter Wruck 2010. Wruck, Peter J. and Caren A. Arbeit. “Blurring the Lines Between Secondary and Post-Secondary Learning: Contours and Consequences.” Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Xi Zhu 2010. “Network Correlates of Transactive Memory System Accuracy and Consensus: The Role of Work and Help.” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada.

2010. Zhu, Xi, Pri Shah and Doug Wholey. “Unpacking Psychological Safety in Teams: Where Does It Come From and How Does It Work?” Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup), Washington, DC.

2010 Faculty Mentor Award winner, Elizabeth Boyle, with her advisees.

GRADUATE STUDENT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Ryan Alaniz 2010: Post-Disaster Recovery Conference Director “Tragedia y Oportunidad Post-Desastre: El Desarrollo Comunitario a Largo Plazo.” An international conference of NGOs and disaster survivors sharing stories and strategies concerning post-disaster development. Divina Providencia, Honduras. May 21-23.

2009-present: Institute for Post-Disaster Community Recovery and Development. Founder and executive director of this non-governmental and not-for-profit organization that analyzes community social health indicators and offers community leaders and supporting NGOs (in El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti) counsel on how to address issues of concern.

Shannon Golden 2011. Volunteer, Community Outreach Peace Programme, Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda.

Kristin Haltinner 2010. Red Ribbon Ride Participant – raised $1700 and biked 300 miles to raise money for local organizations serving people with HIV/AIDS.

2010-11. Solidarity in Health. 2010-11. Advocate and Foster Care for Pet Project Rescue. 2010-11. Instructor at Century Community College. Sarah Lageson Evaluation Consultant for Council on Crime and Justice. Hollie Nyseth 2011. Human Rights Research Intern with Bahá’í

International Community United Nations Office. 2010-2011. Heritage Academy of Science & Technology,

Secretary of School Board of Directors and Chair of Hiring Committee.

2010-2011. Center for Victims of Torture Research Volunteer. 2010-2011. Solidarity in Health. 2010-2011. Co-author Teaching the Social World and Citings

& Sightings Blogs on The Society Pages. 2010. Research and Grant Consultant. University of

Wisconsin-La Crosse. Sarah Shannon 2007 to present. International Cesarean Awareness Network

of the Twin Cities. Board member. 2009 to present. Twin Cities Birth & Baby Expo. Co-founder

and board member. Jesse Wozniak 2010-11. Co-host of Contexts Podcast with Arturo Baiocchi,

Jon Smajda and Sarah Lageson. 2010-11. Organizer, Graduate Student Workers United --

United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.

Ph.D. DEGREES AWARDED &

RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PLACEMENTS

Julie Barrows, Dissertation Title: Gang Task Forces: Formation, Network Structure, and Effectiveness. She is a Special Agent in the US Department of Agriculture, Office of the Inspector General. Lara Cleveland, Dissertation Title: Wrangling Software: Computing Professionals and the Interpretation of Software Ownership in the University Computing Environment. She is a Research Associate at the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Eric Dahlin, Dissertation Title: Navigating the Stages of Innovation: A Study of the U.S. Biotechnology Industry. He is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University, Provo UT. Jin Woong Kang, Dissertation Title: Understanding the Dynamics of State Power in North Korea: Militant Nationalism and People’s Everyday Lives. He has accepted the position of Postdoctoral Associate in the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. Wes Longhofer, has accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Organization and Management Division, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Dalhia Mani, Dissertation title: Seeing Both the Tree and the Forest: An Analysis of the Indian Intergenerational Network. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and Business Policy at École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris (HEC) Paris, France. Katarzyna Polanska, has accepted a faculty instructor position at American Public University/ American Military University. Eric Tranby, Dissertation Title: Family Policies or Labor Markets? Women’s Employment Inequality in 14 Welfare States from 1960 to 2008. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Shelly Schaefer, has accepted a position as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Program Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. Deborah Smith, Dissertation Title: Branding Consent: The Role of Employer Brand in Retail Labor Process Control. She is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Macalester College, St Paul, MN. Michael Vuolo, has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Shawn Wick, has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Central College, Pella, IA.

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2011 UNDERGRADUATE HONORS COHORT

Front row (left to right): Yi Zhan, Ashly Rieland, Meghan Zacher, Betsy Priem, Kathy Hull Back row (left to right):Jennifer Sau, Rica Rachut, Jeff Brown, Luke Schieve