Wake Washington Students with President Wente, their host and Managing Partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP, Wendell Taylor (WFU ’95, Sociology, Criminology), and Resident Professor Steve Gunkel. Wendell (’95) offered an amazing presentation “Overcoming Adversity” for his audience of Wake Washington Students, their Resident Professor and our new President, Susan…
Dr. Alexandra Brewer and her co-authors received an honorable mention for the 2021 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociology Association’s Medical Sociology Section for their article, “Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? Performance Evaluations, Medical Errors, and the Production of Gender Inequality in Emergency Medicine Resident Education.” You can…
Dr. Brown’s most recent American Sociologial Review article, “Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States” has won two ASA awards: the Charles Tilly article award from the Comparative Historical section and the Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award from the Political Sociology section….
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Amanda Gengler on receiving the McCulloch Family Faculty Fellowship in recognition of her excellence in research in teaching.
SOC 390 Defund, Transform, Abolish?: (Re)Imagining Justice, taught by Dr. Brittany P. Battle, focused the semester on examining texts on abolition. Dr. Battle, who is the co-founder of the local group Triad Abolition Project, has assigned her students to lead teach-ins, as their final course projects, for members of the…
Dr. Brittany P. Battle is one of the panelists speaking in response to the verdict from the trial of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. The Slavery, Race and Memory Project along with the WFU Law School Criminal Justice Program and the Center for RECAAL will host, “Responding…
Congratulations to Dr. Brittany P. Battle, winner of the 2021 Winter SWS Social Actions Initiative Award. As the co-founder of Triad Abolition Project, a grassroots organization working to dismantle the carceral state, and the Forsyth County Police Accountability & Reallocation Coalition, a collective of grassroots organizations working to defund law…
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Soares whose co-authored a piece in Inside Higher Ed makes the case for test-blind college admissions. You can read the whole essay here.
Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Harnois for her co-authored article, “Does the Everyday Discrimination Scale generate meaningful cross-group estimates? A psychometric evaluation” published in Social Science & Medicine. You can read the full article here.
Congratulations to Dr Andrea Gómez Cervantes for her co-authored article, “Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas” recently published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior! Read the full article here.