News & Events

Current News

Spring 2008

• The Sociology Department with the Women & Gender Studies Program celebrates Professor Marnia Lazreg's new book, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad on April 3rd, 2008 from 4:00PM - 6:00PM. Please RSVP by March 31st by emailing Professor Lazreg.
  


• GSR Spring 2008 Seminar Series
  Through the generosity of Hunter College Graduate Investment Funds, the Graduate Student Association, and President Raab, the GSR program is able to offer a Spring seminar series to better meet student interests and needs.
  
  SPSS Seminar
  Two-part series, Saturday January 5th & January 12th
  Noon - 2:30pm
  Social Sciences Computing Lab, Hunter West rm 607
  Led by Rus Kehoe, GSR Alumni Market and Research Manager at Insight Express
  *special thanks to Nick Trippel, Director, Social Sciences Computing Lab
  
  Focus Group Seminar
  Saturday, March 29th
  9:00am - Noon
  *Room to be announced
  Led by Wayne Neiman, Senior VP for Primary Research at Warner Brothers
  
  GSR Alumni Panel
  Stay tuned for details.
  Anticipated date is a weekend in April.

Past News

Fall 2007

• Greg Durkin, a recent graduate of the GSR program, has been appointed to Vice President of Research for Warner Brothers.
• BA/MS graduate Malgozata Marcinek has entered the London School of Economics to get a PhD in Economics
• Veronica Manlow, a GSR graduate, has joined Brooklyn College in the Economics/Business Department.
• Gary L. St. C. Oates, a GSR graduate, has become an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University.
• Current BA/MS student Megan Pun has been elected Junior Fellow for the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
• Michelle Currie and Garvey Gong, students of the Graduate Social Research Program, were appointed by the Department of Sociology to the Rosalind Tough Senior and Junior Fellowship (respectively) for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Spring 2007

• Professor Perinbanayagam was reelected as Department Chair for the 2007-2010 term.
• Students from the Graduate Social Research program present results from a study carried out in Research Methods II at a Sociology Faculty meeting at Hunter College. The study, conducted by the ASA, explores motivations, satisfaction levels, and future plans of students pursuing an undergraduate sociology degree.
• Professor Pamela Stone's book, Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, published by the University of California Press, was released in May 2007.
• Professor Lazreg was keynote speaker at a conference on “The Violences of Colonialism and Racism: Conversations with Frantz Fanon on the Meaning of Human Emancipation,” sponsored by the Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts, Boston, March 28, 2007. She spoke on “Battling over a NewMan: Fanon and the French Counter-Revolution.” She also participated by invitation in a Forum on “Women in the Arab World: From Knowledge to Governance,” United Nations University, New York, March 19, 2007. Moreover, Professor Lazreg whose forthcoming book Torture And Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad will be published by Princeton University Press, fall 2007.
• Professor Nancy Foner's book, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, has been selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.
• Professor Margaret Chin will comment on a discussion, Setting the Weave: New York's Changing Economic Landscape, 1860-1975. The discussion will be held on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 from 12:30 - 6:00 pm in the President's Conference Room (8201) of The Graduate Center.
• Assistant Professor Erica Chito-Childs is one of only six faculty CUNY-wide to be awarded a fellowship from the 2007 CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program. Childs will use the award to begin an ethnography of the race and gender dynamics in two New York City kindergarten classrooms.
• Professor Margaret Chin received an honorable mention in the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award from the American Sociological Association's International Migration Section and an award from the Chinese section of the Coalition for Labor Union Women for her book, Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry.

2006 and Older

• Professor Lynn Chancer was given the Distinguished Scholar award in 2006 by the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.
• Professor John L. Hammond was a visiting professor at Nanjing University during the summer of 2006. During his appointment, he taught a course on social movements.
• Professor Nancy Foner was elected Chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association in 2006.
• Professor Margaret Chin, whose book Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry was published last fall was quoted in a May 9, 2006 article in the Wall Street Journal, "Work in Progress: Prosperity in Home Countries May Not Stem Tide of Migrants to the US."
• Professor Perinbanayagam's book, Games and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self, was published by Paradigm Publishers in Boulder, Colorado in April, 2006.
• Professor Oh presented "The Globalization of Korean Culture," at 2005 CUNY Korean American Conference, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, November 11th, 2005.
• Professor Hammond was an exchange professor on the CUNY-Shanghai University faculty exchange in June and July. He also lectured at East China Normal University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
• Professor Nancy Foner's book "Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States" (edited with George Fredrickson, Russell Sage Foundation 2004) received Honorable Mention for the 2005 Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association.
• Professor Juan Battle has been elected to be President of the Association of Black Sociologists. His president-elect term will begin in August 2005.
• Professor Kasinitz has been elected President of the Eastern Sociological Society and becomes President in March 2006.
• Professor Perinbanayagam was elected as Department Chair for the 2004-2007 term.
• Professor Lazreg has been awarded the prestigious residential fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton University for the 2004-2005 and also awarded a residential fellowship at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy for February-March 2005 for her work on "Routinizing Terror: Torture, Identity and Memory in Algeria."
• Professor Stone appeared on NBC’s Today Show and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss her study of professional women and contributed to the March 22, 2004 Time magazine cover story, “The case for staying home.”
• Professor Chin has been awarded a 2004 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
• Professor Weiler was appointed the Acting Director of Hunter Teaching/Learning Center.