Northwestern University Department of Sociology

Check out our very own Christine Percheski being interviewed by France24. The special report aired this weekend.

Her interview starts at the 3:23 mark.

The 51% - Global decline in birth rates: Should we worry? In a special edition, we're focusing on a significant global trend; the ongoing decline in birth rates. In 2017, research by the University of Washington found an ongoing decrease in fertility rates…

We'll start the livestream at 12:45!

We are pleased to report that Anthony S. Chen and his co-author Lisa M. Stulberg have a short essay on affirmative action that appeared last week in the University of Chicago Law Review online.

Before Bakke: The Hidden History of the Diversity Rationale Anthony Chen and Lisa Stulberg argue that the diversity rationale for affirmative action originated earlier—and for different reasons—than scholars previously thought.

We are pleased to report that Bambang Trihadmojo has published an article in Global Environmental Change, entitled “Evaluating bundles of interventions to prevent peat-fires in Indonesia” The article is coauthored with Rachel Carmenta, Aiora Zabala, David Gaveau, Mohammad Agu Salim, and Jacob Phelps.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307378

Congratulations, Bambang!

Evaluating bundles of interventions to prevent peat-fires in Indonesia The carbon-dense peatlands of Indonesia are a landscape of global importance undergoing rapid land-use change. Here, peat drained for agricultural exp…

I am pleased to report that Bambang Trihadmojo has published an article in Forest Policy and Economics, entitled “Toward a nuanced and targeted forest and peat fires prevention policy: Insight from psychology.” The article is coauthored with Christopher R.Jones, Bramesada Prasastyoga, Chris Walton, and Ahmad Sulaiman.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934119306884

Congratulations, Bambang!

Toward a nuanced and targeted forest and peat fires prevention policy: Insight from psychology Indonesian forest and peat fires have become global concern. Not only the fires have caused regional environmental and humanitarian crises, they also …

We are very pleased to announce that Simone Ispa-Landa and Mariana Oliver have an article called “Hybrid Femininities: Making Sense of Sorority Rankings and Reputation” getting published in the forthcoming issue of Gender & Society.

Congratulations, Simone and Mariana!

We are pleased to report that Anna Michelson and Wendy Griswold have published a coauthored article in Sociological Forum called “The Outsider’s Edge: Geography, Gender, and Sexuality in the Local Color Movement.” Anna and Wendy’s work was enabled by a MacArthur Summer Research Grant, which the department provides to support collaborations between graduate students and faculty members.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12622

Congratulations, Anna and Wendy!

The Outsider’s Edge: Geography, Gender, and Sexuality in the Local Color Movement Outsider status, especially multiple social marginalities, usually constitutes a burden. Certain combinations can be advantageous for cultural producers, however, especially when geographic marginali...

We are happy to report that Philip (Jun) Fang and Gary Fine have published a coauthored article in Qualitative Sociology called “Names and Selves: Transnational Identities and Self-Presentation among Elite Chinese International Students.” Philip and Gary’s work was enabled by a MacArthur Summer Research Grant, which the department provides to support collaborations between graduate students and faculty members.

https://rb.gy/0w7wks

Congratulations, Philip and Gary!

Names and Selves: Transnational Identities and Self-Presentation among Elite Chinese International Students

We are very pleased to announce that both Margarita Rayzberg and Onur Özgöde have been appointed as postdoctoral fellows to work on a cross-national project called “A Comparative Study of Expertise for Policy in the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Margarita (Northwestern Ph.D. 2019) is appointed at Cornell University and Onur (formerly a postdoc and Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern) is appointed at Harvard University; the NSF-funded project involves STS researchers from 10 countries.

Congratulations, Margarita and Onur!

We are extremely pleased to report that four of our graduate students have been awarded Northwestern Buffett Institute Global Impacts Graduate Fellowships for the 2020-21 academic year:

• Kat Albrecht, for her project, “‘Put a Tracker on It’: Fear, Surveillance, and International Human Rights Law”
• Melike Arslan, for “Unruling The Markets: How the Fight Against Monopolies Derailed Globally”
• Rahardhika Utama, for “Embedded Peasantry and Economic Transformation in the Asian Rubber Belt”
• Omri Tubi, for “Building a Strong Settler State: The Case of Israel.”

Please join us in congratulating Kat, Melike, Dhika, and Omri on this terrific news!

We are pleased to direct you to Aldon Morris’s op-ed, “We’ll Never Fix Systemic Racism by Being Polite,” which has just been published in Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/well-never-fix-systemic-racism-by-being-polite/

Thanks and congratulations, Aldon!

We’ll Never Fix Systemic Racism by Being Polite Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing “We Shall Overcome”