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Congratulations to Mary-Collier Wilks on having her paper entitled "Activist, Entrepreneur, or Caretaker?: Negotiating Varieties of Women in Development" accepted for publication in Gender and Society. The paper will appear in the April 2019 issue. Congratulations MC!

Professor Isaac Ariail Reed's Article in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Congratulations Isaac!

Agency, power, modernity: A manifesto for social theory (2018). Agency, power, modernity: A manifesto for social theory. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. Ahead of Print.

See the linked coverage of Professor Josipa Roksa's most recent article, "The Role of Family Support in Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students.”, in UVA Today https://news.virginia.edu/content/what-parents-can-give-their-college-students-money-cant-buy?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news.
Also, view the follow up in the Inside Higher Ed story https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/07/11/emotional-support-families-makes-difference-low-income-students
Congratulations Josipa!

What Parents Can Give Their College Students That Money Can’t Buy Parents lacking financial resources or college degrees are sometimes thought of as being less capable of supporting their children in college, but they likely have something money can’t buy: emotional support.

Congratulations to Mary-Collier Wilks, Sarah Johnson, Pilar Plater and Elissa Zeno for completing their Master's degree. Well done!

Professor Josipa Roksa's new journal article "Engaging With Diversity” is discussed in Inside Higher Ed.

Study finds negative diversity experiences affect student learning Study finds students' negative diversity experiences, though less common than positive ones, hinder cognitive development and student learning.

Congratulations to Professor W. Bradford Wilcox on new journal article "Ties That Bind - Childrearing in the Age of Cohabitation" Read the article here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-02-14/ties-bind

Ties That Bind

Congratulations to Professor Jeffrey Olick in the release of his new book, The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method!

Congratulations to Professor Allison Pugh on the release of her new book, Beyond the Cubicle!

Read this today and thought some of you, particularly those in the earlier stages of the program, may be interested.

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Congrats to UVA Associate Professor Isaac Ariail Reed who received the Lewis A. Coser Award at the 111th American Sociology Association Annual Meeting. The award and corresponding lecture recognize a mid-career sociologist whose work "holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology."