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Department of Sociology Celebrates Professor Rory McVeigh's Election as President-Elect of the American Sociological Association
Congratulations to our colleague Kevin Christiano, who was recently awarded the Tomeh-Yogan Distinguished Service Award from the North Central Sociological Association! Pictured is Kevin receiving the award from Barbara Jones Denison of Shippensburg University.
The latest publication from my research with Matthew Gougherty on professional socialization doi.org/10.1177/0891...
Corporal punishment is legal in private schools in 45 states and in public schools in 18 states. In this policy brief, @mingome.bsky.social (@ndsociology.bsky.social) argues against the use of corporal punishment, sharing evidence on its negative effects on children. 🔗 scholars.org/contribution...
Congrats to @maurarkraemer.bsky.social for winning the "Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award" from the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and the ND Graduate School. This recognizes Maura's excellence in teaching both undergraduate Methods and graduate Statistics courses at Notre Dame!
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards
The annual Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards honor graduate student instructors who demonstrate excellence in the classroom or teaching laboratory.
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@mcoetzee.bsky.social is the winner of NDSoc's Jeanine Becker Award for best student paper in 2025, with his article "Contingent Memory Activation: Collective Memory, Crisis Response, and the Dynamics of Social Action". This is the 2nd time he's won the award (for 2 different papers!). Congrats!
Big congratulations to grad students Matthew Coetzee and Maura R. Kraemer, who have both been awarded our department's 2025 John J. Kane Memorial Award for most outstanding graduate students in sociology. Cheers! @maurarkraemer.bsky.social @mcoetzee.bsky.social sociology.nd.edu/graduate-pro...
Graduate students Maura R. Kraemer and Suzanne Wood have been awarded our department's 2025 David L. Dodge Teaching Award for excellence in teaching! Congrats to them both! @maurarkraemer.bsky.social @thesuzannewood.bsky.social Read about the Dodge Award here: sociology.nd.edu/graduate-pro...
Come work with Dr. Haskins! Deadline is January 23rd. If that link doesn't work, try this: apply.interfolio.com/178605
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📢 ✨ FFCWS Postdoc opportunity I'm leading at Notre Dame -- circulate and apply! ffcws.princeton.edu/jobs
Some exciting developments with @ffcws.bsky.social at Notre Dame! Stay tuned for postdoc announcements and conference convenings!
@annarhaskins.bsky.social has used the FFCWS dataset to study inequality in the education system, family, and criminal legal system for nearly 2 decades. Now, the ND Poverty Initiative has awarded her (and ND Pop Analytics) generous funding to drive a new and exciting chapter of her FFCWS work.
Merry Swiftmas! This was a fun one with my friend Amelia Hawbaker. Special thanks to Amit Nigam for inviting us to respond to his great piece, and Sigrid Quack at Organization Theory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@annarhaskins.bsky.social has used the FFCWS dataset to study inequality in the education system, family, and criminal legal system for nearly 2 decades. Now, the ND Poverty Initiative has awarded her (and ND Pop Analytics) generous funding to drive a new and exciting chapter of her FFCWS work.
A powerful new lens on poverty: Notre Dame expands access to landmark family study
How do family dynamics, schools, and…
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Appreciative of this Boston College student newspaper coverage of our panel! bcheights.com/224957/news/...
Life After Incarceration: Panelists Call for Expanded Access to Higher Education in Prisons
Reentry programs and higher education for people who are incarcerated are vital opportunities that should be expanded, according to Conway, director of the BC Prison Education Program.
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Looking forward to this visit to Boston College co-hosted by the Forum on Racial Justice and the BC Prison Education Program to talk about reentry, justice, and belonging post incarceration www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...
2-yr postdoc opportunity in @ndsociology.bsky.social at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). iei.nd.edu/initiatives/...
CREO Postdoc Promotion | Institute for Educational Initiatives
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New book from Rory McVeigh, Bill Carbonaro, Chang Liu, and Kenadi Silcox! See below for a descriptive flyer and a $20 discount coupon. cup.columbia.edu/book/politic...
Grad student Vahid Jadidi & coauthors' chapter in "Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic" looks at how COVID changed online crime and victimization, demonstrating increases in hacking, fraud, and online harassment, and describing wider social effects of our growing use of digital technology.
Congratulations to @mcoetzee.bsky.social, who was selected as one of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars for 2025! His recent research addresses community responses to state failure and racial violence in post-apartheid South Africa. www.hfg.org/hfg-welcomes...
What shapes immigrant youth’s political interest—identity or opportunity? Across Europe, @madem2876.bsky.social's and coauthor Patricia McManus's findings point to the enduring power of resources over ethnicity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rory McVeigh is the co-editor of a new book on right-wing movements. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
This summer, Full Professor @amische.bsky.social and former graduate student @tomasgold.bsky.social (soon-to-be faculty member at @usc.edu) were honored by 3 ASA sections for their AJS paper short-titled “Channeling Anti-Partisan Contention". Huge congrats to these scholars! Read more below.
Mische and Gold Win Top ASA Honors for Paper | Kellogg Institute For International Studies
Keough School faculty member and Kellogg faculty fellow Ann Mische (sociology and peace studies) and former Kellogg PhD Fellow Tomás Gold were recognized with three honors from the American Sociologic...
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@ndsociology.bsky.social is hiring an Endowed Chair in Demography at the Full level! Building ND Pop Analytics: populationanalytics.nd.edu. Check out the ad here: apply.interfolio.com/171683 Share widely!
Endowed Chair in Demography at the rank of Full Professor at Notre Dame Population Analytics is now open for applications. I highly encourage established faculty with a strong research program and entrepreneurial spirit to apply! @ndsociology.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/171683
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Erin McDonnell's (@profmcdonnell.bsky.social) amazing new paper "Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration" is online now at the Annual Review of Sociology. Check it out!!! @ndsociology.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration | Annual Reviews
This review articulates sociology's emerging approach to public administration, building on long-standing interest in bureaucracy. The sociology of public administration aims to understand how pu...
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Check out grad student @maurarkraemer.bsky.social's new publication, which uses field theory to explore how high school students’ academic outcomes and educational experiences are related to their engagement in racialized cultural capital-generating activities! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Congrats to graduate student @maurarkraemer.bsky.social, whose article "Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates Within Schools as Racialized Organizations" (SSR 2025) received honorable mention for the ASA Soc of Education Best Grad Student Paper Award!
Graduate Student Maura Kraemer's forthcoming paper in Social Science Research | Institute for Educational Initiatives
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