Jennifer Lena has been elected Secretary-Treasurer for the Sociology of Culture section of the American Sociological Association (2008-2010).

 Richard Lloyd has been appointed consulting Editor of the American Journal of Sociology through 2009.

 Jennifer Lena has been appointed as a member of the Informal Working Group on Festivals, National Endowment for the Arts (2008-2009).

 Gary Jensen has been appointed Editor of the Homicide Studies journal through 2011.

 Daniel Cornfield received the 2008 Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award from Vanderbilt University.

 Gary Jensen and Holly McCammon have been appointed to the Editorial Board of the American Sociological Review through 2010.

 Larry Isaac delivered the 2008 Presidential Address to the Southern Sociological Society entitled Movement of Movements: Culture Moves in the Long Civil Rights Struggle.

 Laura Carpenter is major contributor in article in The Tennessean concerning the concept of a birth control pill for men.

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.)

 Larry Isaac has received a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support his research on capitalist militias in the Gilded Age.

 Richard Pitt has been elected to the Executive Board of the American Men's Studies Association, the national organization for the study of men and masculinities . (2007-2010).

 Tony Brown has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Social Psychology Quarterly (2007).

 Jennifer Lena was quoted in the July 9, 2007 issue of Billboard Magazine on the lack of commercial, feminist rappers in contemporary music.

 Tony Brown was honored as the Distinguished Faculty of the Game Award during the Mississippi vs. Vanderbilt football game (9/15/07).

 Richard Lloyd has been awarded a 2007 Chancellor's Award in recognition of his book Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City.

 Jennifer C. Lena was quoted in the July 9, 2007 issue of Billboard Magazine on the lack of commercial, feminist rappers in contemporary music.

 Richard Pitt visited the Indiana University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Scholar. While there, he lectured on images of bisexuality in the media; spoke as a panelist in a discussion on "the intersection of race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, and violence;" and guest lectured in sociology of masculinity and sociology of gender courses. (2007).

 Jennifer Lena gave a recent talk at the Nashville Public Library--part of the "Thinking Outside of the (Lunch) Box" Series, co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the Nashville Public Library.

Shaul Kelner and his Tourism, Culture & Place class were featured in an article in The Tennessean on 3/15/07.

Richard Pitt is quoted in the January, 2007 issue of Details Magazine in a feature article titled "Meet the New Bachelor" where he discussed the impact of divorce on the 21st century American bachelor.

 Laura Carpenter is featured in an article in the Vanderbilt Register. They discuss what she wrote in the recently published Journal of Aging Studies.

 Richard Lloyd has been appointed to the Editorial Board of City and Community.

 Laura Carpenter's newly published book entitled Virginity Lost gets reviewed.

 Dan Cornfield visited Cardiff University as a Montague Burton Fellow. He conducted a faculty seminar on historical and contemporary realignments of the U.S. labor movement and a doctoral seminar on scholarly peer review and publishing, March 2006.

 Richard Lloyd has been named co-editor (with Joshua Gamson) of the culture reviews section of Contexts (the ASA journal).

 Shaul Kelner received a 2006 CAS Venture Fund Grant for Creativity in Curricular and Pedagogical Approaches. With it, he plans to develop a field-trip based course that uses tours of the Nashville area to teach the Sociology of Tourism.

 Richard Lloyd's book, Neo Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City, appeared in November, 2005. For a sampling of reviews, go to Salon; In These Times; Nashville Scene; Chicago Reader; Chicago Journal, Eye Weekly, and City Magazine. There are podcasts of Richard's interviews with Carol Coletta on "Smart City," and with Steve Edwards on Chicago Public Radio's "Eight Forty-Eight." This book has also been selected as one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books for 2006. The full list can be viewed here.

 Larry Isaac has been elected President-Elect of the Southern Sociological Society; he will be President-elect for 2006-2007 and then President in 2007-2008.

 Richard Pitt was quoted in the July 23, 2006 issue of The Tennessean in an article on family reunions.

 Jennifer Lena is quoted during an interview giving her perspective on rap music in another newspaper article in the Richmond Times Dispatch after a high school student was brutally and fatally stabbed at a hotel dance party in January, 2006. Afterwards, many have implicated that rap music had influenced the murder.

 Jennifer Lena is cited in The New York Times in the "Education Life" column in January, 2006, where the author presents many current "Pop Ph.D.'s" and their dissertation research and title.

 Jennifer Lena gave a lecture at the University of Georgia in December entitled "Voyeurism, Authenticity and the Gaze: Rap Music Videos as Cultural Tourism."

Richard Peterson , professor emeritus, has been attributed with the most cited piece from Annual Reviews in economics and business regarding his research.

 Gary Jensen received the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award in Spring 2005. This award was created to honor Chancellor Wyatt upon his retirement in 2000. This award is given each year and is intended to recognize accomplishments that span multiple academic disciplines.

 Holly McCammon received a National Science Foundation Grant for 2004-2006 for her project entitled, "Dismantling the Patriarchal State: Women's Rights Activism, 19th-Century Married Women's Property Acts, and 20th-Century Jury Rights Laws."



 Harmony Newman , one of our graduate students, was contacted (June, 2007) and quoted about the field of Social Sciences on MSN Encarta. Here's the link: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Departments/AdultLearning/?article=SizingSocialScience

 Melanie Kowalski , an undergraduate sociology major, has been awarded a 2006 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) award. Under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Lena, she will work on a research project entitled, "Surrogate Consumers and the Production of Meaning: Press Kits and the Radio and Record Industries." The VUSRP extends from June to August, 2006, and Melanie will be expected to participate in Fellows meetings, and present her research findings. Melanie and Professor Lena expect to produce a publishable article by the early Fall term. The award carries with it a $4,000 stipend.

 Sophomore sociology major Ari Wisch coauthored a paper on Nashville immigrants with sociology professor Dan Cornfield that has been accepted for presentation at the 2006 convention of the American Sociological Association. The paper is entitled, "Settling In: Residential Strategies and Segregation Among African, Asian, Hispanic and Middle Eastern Immigrants in Nashville, Tennessee."

 Senior Star Wallin , a double major in sociology and public policy studies, was selected to be a member of USA TODAY's 2006 All-USA College Academic Team. In 2005, she was honored by being named a Truman Scholar (Harry S. Truman Foundation), a Udall Scholar (Morris K. Udall Foundation), and a winner in Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women Competition. Star also is a Vanderbilt Ingram Scholar and worked with Jane Goodall 2005 summer in Tanzania as a coordinator of a youth empowerment program.

 Graduate student Teresa Terrell received a National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant for 2006-2007 for her research on "Community Participation in Neighborhood Organizations: An Investigation of Local Participation in Two Inner-City Neighborhoods."

 2005 VU graduate, Amy Beth Cooter , won first place in the 2005 sociology honorary society Alpha Kappa Delta's national Undergraduate Student Paper Competition for her paper. The paper will be published in AKD's journal, Sociological Inquiry. The award carries with it a $600 stipend and travel expenses to the 2005 annual convention of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia.

 Ranae Evenson won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Graduate Student Paper Award competition of the Health Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems paper, "Co-Occurring Physical Health Problems and Psychiatric Disorders in the General Population."

 Graduate School 2005 Summer Research Fellowships from the College were won by Soma Chaudhuri, Lyndi Hewitt, and George Sanders.

 Graduate student Steve Lee had been selected to be a Fellow the 2005 summer at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Steve is also one of the Editors of the scholarly quarterly, Work and Occupations.

 Graduate student Ashley Thompson had received a Dissertation Enhancement Grant from the Graduate School for 2005.

 Julianne Johnston, as a junior and undergraduate sociology major, had her research paper accepted by the 2004 Honors Program of the American Sociological Association for presentation at the 99th ASA annual meetings in San Francisco.

 Former graduate student Koji Ueno (Ph.D. 2004) and former graduate student Melissa Sloan (Ph.D. 2005) both won the 2004 Odum Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper from the Southern Sociological Society.

 Former graduate student Melissa Sloan received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the National Science Foundation for 2004-2005. Melissa was also Deputy Editor of the scholarly quarterly, Work and Occupations.

 A Graduate School Summer Research Award was won by Laurie Woods in 2004.

 Graduate student Lyndi Hewitt had published an article with Professor Holly McCammon in the journal Mobilization. Their paper is titled, "Explaining Suffrage Mobilization: Balance, Neutralization, and Range in Collective Action Frames, 1892-1919."

 Former graduate student Melissa Sloan published an article in Work and Occupations, February, 2004, entitled, "The Effects of Occupational Characteristics on the Experience and Expression of Anger in the Workplace."

 Graduate student Ken Spring was recently interviewed on Bravo for a documentary called "More that Music: Songs."
DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

 Vanderbilt Sociology One of Top (Graduate) Chair Producing Departments. Footnotes, vol. 30, number 2, February 2002

Sociology Ranks 3rd in Faculty Productivity. Vanderbilt Register, August 28, 2000.