Daniel B. Cornfield received the 2008 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award for distinguished accomplishments at furthering the aims of Vanderbilt University. He is now focusing his energy as founding director of the new transdisciplinary Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies. Cornfield has had great impact on a number of programs including: enhancing the reputation of our sociology department's research on labor issues while he served as chair; putting together an interdisciplinary, inter-university team to study Nashville's immigrant community and its social services needs while serving as acting director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies; and editing the scholarly journal Work and Occupations.

 Tony Brown will be the Faculty Head of House for the Hank Ingram House in the Vanderbilt Commons, which will open to first-year students in Fall 2008. Check out this video with Tony Brown's list of his 5 reasons to be Faculty Head of House(Click here to watch video)

 Lary Isaac delivered the Presidential Address to the Southern Sociological Society on April 11 entitled, "Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights Struggle." He also received a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support his research on capitalist militias in the Gilded Age.