Written in Stone Monthly Newsletter of Purdue Sociology

August-September 2017

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We had numerous publications and noteworthy news. Re-gretfully, we could not print all the submissions. -K.S.

Publications

Kim, Seoyoun and Patricia A. Thomas. “Direct and Indirect Pathways from Social Support to Health?” Journal of Gerontology: Social Science.

Ryberg, Renee, Shawn Bauldry, Michael A. Schultz, Annekatrin Steinhoff, and Michael Shanahan. forth-coming. “Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Germany.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Yang, Fenggang. 2017. “Chinese Christianity at the Crossroads: A Sociohistorical Perspective.” Pp. 41-70 in Between Continuity and Change: Studies on the History of Chinese Christianity since 1949, edited by Wong Man-kong, Paul W. Cheung, and Chan Chi-hang. Hong Kong: Alliance Bible Seminary.

Beaman, Jean. 2017. “Citizen Outsider: Racism, Mar-ginalization, and Immigration in France,” Metropolitiqués/Metropolitics. 31 May 2017

Megan Gilligan, J. Jill Suitor, Sangbo Nam, Brianna Routh, Marissa Rurka, & Gulcin Con. 2017. “Family Networks and Psychological Well-Being in Midlife.” Social Sciences.

Benzecry, Claudio and Daniel Winchester. 2017. “Varieties of Microsociology.” Pp. 42-74 in Social Theory Now. Eds. C. Benzecry, M. Krause, and I. Reed. University of Chicago Press.

Scheduled Events –

Sept 11 2:30-4pm Dr. Taylor Hargrove BRNG 1268

Sept 15 8am-12pm CALC Symposium

PMU Faculty Lounge

Sept 20 3:30-5pm Faculty Meeting STON 144

Sept 25 6-7:30pm Cummings-Perrucci Lecture

Anita Hill Loeb Playhouse

Sociology Colloquium – Dr. Taylor Hargrove Monday, September 11, 2017 2:30pm BRNG 1268 Reception to follow.

Engagement

Fenggang Yang delivered a keynote speech on “Religion in the Global East: Challenges and Opportunities for the Social Scientific Study of Religion,” at the international conference on “The Changing Religious Landscape in Contemporary East Asia,” Hong Kong, July 11-13, 2017.

News of Note

Jean Beaman received “For the Honor” recognition for receiving a 2017-2018 grant through the Clifford B. Kin-ley Trust. The title is, “From Ferguson to France: Under-standing Black Lives Matter in France.”

Dan Winchester’s 2016 Social Forces article, "A Hunger for God: Embodied Metaphor as Cultural Cognition in Ac-tion," received this year’s Clifford Geertz Award for Best Article from the American Sociological Association Cul-ture Section.

Jean Beaman, Rosie Clawson and Jay McCann advised six students through the SROP (Summer Research Opportu-nities Program) in Summer 2017. The students were ad-vised on individual research projects.

August Birthdays (happy belated)

Brian Kelly 8/5

Luke Hanna 8/8

Elle Rochford 8/19

Jean Beaman 8/23

Jill Suitor 8/25

September Birthdays

Tom Maher 9/3

Dan Olson 9/5

Joy Kadowaki 9/9

Callie Zabrenko 9/13

Alexandra Marin 9/16

Tyler Anderson 9/21

Kia Hastings 9/21

Jun Lu 9/22

Scott Feld 9/29

Edited by Karen Studebaker and Linda Renzulli, with contributions from Candy Lawson and Nicole Remley.. WIS (22) www.cla.purdue.edu/sociology/

New Faces to Sociology -

Trenton (Trent) Mize is an Assistant Professor. His areas of interest are quantitative methods, experimental methods, gender, sexuality, health, social psychology. Trent is teaching Sel Prob Soc Research.

Lindsay Hamm is a Continu-ing Lecturer. Her areas of interest are Race and Ethnic Inequality, Education, Work-place Dynamics, Labor Mar-kets, Mixed Methods Re-search. Lindsay is teaching Social Problems and Crimi-nology.

Thomas (Tom) Maher is a Continuing Lecturer. His are-as of interest include Social Movements and Collective Action, Political Sociology, Deviance and Social Control. Tom is teaching Intro to Soci-ology and Global Social Movements.

Congratulations August

Graduates!

Yun Lu Ph.D.

Andrew Raridon Ph.D.

Sociology Conference Room Construction is slated to begin July 2018 on a new conference room. In the meantime, STON 344 is equipped with computer and screen for small group meetings. Contact Candy Lawson or Karen Studebaker to schedule.

Welcome Sociology Cohort Class of Fall 2017 - (left to right) Yifei Hou, Adam Kotanko, Erin Straka, Amy Petts, Charissa Mikoski, Nabil Julkif, Young Eun Nam, Zhen Wang, Vasundhara Kaul.