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Destro and Rackin win AwardLane Destro and Heather Rackin each won a 2009-2010 Sulzberger Family/Dan Levitan Social Policy Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship, administered by the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke, carries a stipend, a mentoring arrangement with a Center faculty member, and participation in a bi-monthly seminar." Tiryakian wins ASA AwardEd Tiryakian has been awarded this year's ASA Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award
Song Awarded Ph.D.On Tuesday, June 2, Lijun Song successfully defended her dissertation: "Your Body Knows Who You Know: Social Capital and Health Inequality" Her committe: Nan Lin (Co-Chair), Linda K George (Co-Chair), Kennth C Land, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and David Brady. Tiryakian's New Book on Durkheim PublishedEd Tiryakian's For Durkheim: Essays in Historical and Cultural Sociology has just been published by Ashgate Publishing (UK). The 360 page volume has 17 essays ranging from "Durkheim, Solidarity and September 11" to "No Laughing Matter : Applying Durkheim to Danish Cartoons". Sereny to Present paper at UNFPAMelanie Sereny has been invited to present her research paper “Living Arrangements of Older Adults in China: The Interplay Among Preferences, Realities, and Health” at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Seminar on Family Support Networks and Population Ageing to be held in Doha, Qatar June 3-4, 2009. Students on the Job MarketDepartmental NewsletterPublic
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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva to Present Work at Census BureauEduardo Bonilla-Silva was one of six national scholars invited to present their work this summer at the research division of the Census Bureau. He will deliver a talk entitled "'We are all Americans': The Future of Racial Stratification in Obamerica" based on his work on the Latin Americanization of racial stratification in the USA and how that process may play out in the Obama era. He will also advise researchers in the division on their projects and give ideas on experiments the division should conduct in preparation for the 2020 Census.
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