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Book-in-Common Essay Contest
Ph.D. sociology student, Vanessa Ellison, received first place in the Fall 2018 Book-in-Common Essay Contest, for her essay titled “Black Girl, White Words.” Petina Powers, Ph.D. sociology student, received second place for her essay titled “Misnomer: The Invisible Older Woman.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, was this year’s Book-in-Common.
Federation Symposium
Ph.D. sociology student, Hollie A. Teague, won first place in the Social Science/Humanities Division at the Federation Symposium held on the UNT campus, April 5, 2019. Her poster presentation is titled “‘Almost Jealous’: A Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Jim Crow Texas.”
22nd Annual Student Creative Arts & Research Symposium
William Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Platform Presentation, “It is not About the Sex: A Qualitative Study of Male Instructors’ Perceptions of Female Supervisors”
Allison Ray, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Poster Presentation, “The Sociology of Teaching and Learning Undergraduate Social Statistics: Access, Assessment, and Arts-Based Pedagogy”
Selected by the Research Committee of the Graduate Council as a 2019 Chancellor’s Student Research Scholar. The CSRS program honors outstanding achievement by select students in research and creative art endeavors.
Hollie Teague, Ph.D. Student in Sociology
Poster Presentation, “Lynching the Young in Texas: Toward a Modified Status Transgression Theory
Tanya Faglie, Ph.D. Student in Sociology
Poster Presentation, “Obstetric Procedures and Childbirth: Educated Women’s Perceptions of Patient Autonomy”
Madyson Plummer, MA Student in Sociology
Poster Presentation, “A Global Comparison of the Incarceration of Women and Societal Punitiveness"
Heather Gerling, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
One of three students selected for the 2019 Graduate Council Award for Exceptional, Original Scholarship
Her dissertation focuses on the relatively new and promising field of the Sociology of Human Rights. Ms. Gerling is interested in both quantitative comparative historical comparative sociology and qualitative sociology of inequality, stratification, and urban sociology in the international context. Besides her presentations in regional and national workshops and conferences, Heather has published three articles in professional journals.
Graduate Student Council Pioneering Spirit Awards Banquet
Heather Gerling, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, 2019 Doctoral Student Award of Excellence
Sociology Ph.D. Candidate Receives Funding to Support Dissertation
Mia Kirby, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, was awarded the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Frances Fowler Wallace Memorial for Mental Health Dissertation Award of $1,500, to support her dissertation titled “Cranes in the Sky: Exploring the Relationship between the Strong Black Woman Archetype and the Mental Health Help Seeking Behaviors of Black Women.”
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