26th Annual Research Celebration! April 22, 2016

Presented by Department of Sociology University of Minnesota 909 Social Sciences Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-4300 cla.umn.edu/sociology

A WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR Dear Colleagues, Student, Alumni, and Friends, Welcome to the 2016 UMN Sociology Research Institute! We are delighted you could join us in this annual celebration of graduate and undergraduate student research and achievement! Many thanks to Michael Goldman, Jacqui Frost, and all the folks who have served on SRI-related committees or otherwise helped to make this a great event. Each year, we invite a scholar whose work engages and intrigues us to deliver the SRI keynote address. This year we are honored to have Professor Aldon Morris from Northwestern University with us in this capacity. Professor Morris will focus on the themes of his recent book The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. Welcome, Professor Morris! This is an especially important SRI because it is the last one organized by our incomparable Mary Drew. Mary has been the spirit of SRI for over 20 years, making the event more inclusive, elaborate, and fun every time it happens. It's hard to imagine an SRI that isn't run by Mary (I, for one, will be in denial for as long as possible about that). Be sure you let Mary know how much we love and appreciate her—but next week when she has a moment to spare! Warm Regards,

Elizabeth Boyle

SRI COMMITTEES SRI Committee: Professor Michael Goldman; Grad Student, Jacqui Frost; & Staff Member, Mary Drew. Graduate Student Paper Award: Professors Joe Gerteis and Chris Uggen. Undergraduate Student Research Paper Award: Professors Carolyn Liebler & Gabrielle Ferrales. Graduate Instructor Award: Professor Kathy Hull; Grad Student Frank Zhang; Undergraduate Student Kat Albrecht; & staff member Ann Miller. Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Professor Kathy Hull; Grad Students Jack Delehanty & J Siguru Wahutu; Undergrad Student Kat Albrecht; & staff member Ann Miller. Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: Professor Kathy Hull; Grad Students Jack Delehanty & J Siguru Wahutu; & staff member Ann Miller. Department Service Award: SRI Committee. Graduate Student Faculty Mentoring Award: Graduate students Jacqui Frost & Allison Nobles. Engaged Scholarship Award: Rob Stewart and SRI Committee. Public Sociology Award: SRI Committee, advisory to the Department Chair. SPECIAL THANKS Department Staff: Bobby Bryant, Kerrie Deef, Becky Drasin, Mary Drew, Ann Miller, Hilda Mork, Jane Peterson, and Holly Schoonover; undergrad student workers: Michael Casello, Jason Chang, Lydia Quint, Sunny Vang, & Karrie Virgin.

KEYNOTE ADRESS

Professor Aldon Morris W.E.B. Du Bois: From Science and Curricula Political Activism Aldon Morris is the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is best known for his paradigmchanging research on social movements documented in his book, The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. This award winning book emphasizes the organizational and cultural basis of social protest. Published last year, The Scholar Denied, is a groundbreaking book that calls into question the prevailing ideas of how sociology was developed and is the focus of his keynote address today. Morris argues that Du Bois was central in producing the first major empirical sociological studies in American and building the first school of American sociology. He explores the sociological, theoretical, and institutional factors responsible for Du Bois’ work being marginalized by the profession. The Scholar Denied, recently won two awards from the Association of American Publishers, Inc.’s Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division: the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, in the sociology and social work category, and the 2016 R.R. Hawkins Award.

PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AWARD Today we honor the outstanding contributions of Muneer Karcher-Ramos (BA, Sociology & Political Science, UMN; MA, Sociology, U of Chicago). He currently serves as the Director of the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood, a Wilder Foundation program that uses education as a tool to end multi-generational poverty in the Frogtown and Summit-University neighborhoods of St. Paul. Muneer specializes in finding community and culturally-valued approaches to bring together families, schools, public agencies, and the community to change the odds for a generation of children. Under his leadership since 2013, the program’s budget has grown from $700,000 to $4.1 million. In addition to his work with the Wilder Foundation, he is adjunct faculty in the UMN School of Social Work, and on the board of directors of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice. A sociology faculty member wrote: Muneer was an exceptional student, a critical thinker unafraid to challenge his peers and teachers. He demonstrated sharp skills as well as broad vision of global issues such as migration, human rights and racial inequality. As I followed his professional trajectory since he finished his studies at the University of Minnesota, I am not surprised at all that Muneer has distinguished himself as a cross-sector leader, where he pursues agendas to transform urban education and address root causes to education inequities. His success since graduation reflects well on the University of Minnesota faculty and administration who prepared him well for public service. Muneer has received numerous honors and awards, including a UMN Alumni Association Leadership Award and a Kingston Fellowship from the Wilder Foundation. He was recently named to the “40 Under 40” list by the Minneapolis /St. Paul Business Journal.

NEWS OF NOTE Joyce Bell will be in residence beginning Fall 2016 as the Don E. Martindale Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology. She has spent the last academic as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her book, The Black Power Movement and American Social Work, uses social work to examine the rise of black professional associations as an important outcome of the Black Power movement. Joyce is currently working on her second book, Black Power Lawyers: Unique and Unorthodox Methods (to be published by Oxford U Press), which offers an organizational history of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and assesses the impact of the Black Power movement on the organization as well as the lawyers within it. Hassan Abdel Salam (formerly El Menyawi) will be joining our department Fall 2017 as Assistant Professor. He is currently at Dartmouth on a two-year post-doctoral fellowship. A joint hire with the Human Rights Program, based in the Institute for Global Studies, Hassan crosses many areas of sociology—sexualities, religion, law, and historical/comparative analysis with mixedmethod analysis. His research reveals the inextricable connections between human rights and Islam, in the West and in the Middle East. The Law & Society Association awarded the 2015 Graduate Student Paper Prize to Hassan for his legalhistorical research on LGB persons in the Muslim world. Carolyn Liebler was awarded the 2015-16 CLA Arthur "Red" & Helene Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, which recognizes faculty who are outstanding teachers, and advisors. One of her nominators wrote: “Professor Liebler is one of the finest educators, researchers & mentors that I have ever had the privilege to meet.” A former student remarked, “Carolyn has been the single most positive influence I’ve had in my academic & professional life.”

Mary Drew, pictured here after receiving a CLA Outstanding Service Award, will be retiring in December. Mary has worked for the University for 35 years, coming to Sociology in 1991 as an undergraduate RA for Robert Fulton (professor emeritus), Jeylan Mortimer and Ron Anderson (professor emeritus) while she pursued her degree in sociology. We are happy she decided to stay on permanently and will miss her wit, wisdom and overall presence in the department. After being a part of SRI since its beginnings, sadly, this will be her last.

— MORNING PRESENTATIONS — Humphrey Center – rooms 180, 184 & 186 8:15–8:45 CHECK IN AND LIGHT BREAKFAST 8:45–10:15 PANEL SESSION I A.

GLOBAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS ROOM 184 Moderator: Liz Boyle Jasmine Trang Ha, A Matter of Origins: The Necessity of Spatial Structure in a Relaunched Migration Systems Perspective Joe Svec, “Modernizing” Gender: A Global Perspective on Sex Ratios, Development, and Gender Dynamics Suzy McElrath, A Global Perspective on National Laws Against Genocide J. Siguru Wahutu, “We have failed as a continent”: Representing Darfur for an African Audience

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WHAT YOUR SYLLABUS SAYS ABOUT YOU ROOM 186 Moderator: Carolyn Liebler Ryan Larson, Stephen Wulff, Jacqui Frost: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Syllabus Composition Caty Taborda, Monica Saralampi, Sarah Catherine Billups: Reading the Social World: Examining Selections in Sociology Syllabi Devika Narayan, Ryan Steel, Francis Lyimo: Assessing Assessments Neeraj Rajasekar, Matthew Aguilar-Champeau, Kevin Huang: Technology

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DISCOURSES AND RESOURCE ROOM 180 Moderator: Joe Gerteis jim saliba, Protection & Exclusion: School Racial Composition & Teacher Resource Adequacy in the United States, 1993 – 2011 Ryan Carlson, The Gender Pay Gap Camille Galles, The Politics of Trigger Warnings in Higher Education Erik Kojola, Permitting Discourses of Science and Risk in the Politics of Copper Mining in Minnesota

10:15–10:30 BREAK 10:30–12:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS & PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY AWARD PRESENTATION (Cowles Auditorium —off Humphrey Center Atrium)

Aldon Morris Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University

W. E. B. Du Bois: From Science and Curricula to Political Activism W.E.B. Du Bois was one of a handful of 20th century scholars with a sustained global impact on sociological, literary, and political thought. In this talk, Dr. Morris will draw on evidence from his just published and award-winning book, The Scholar Denied, to demonstrate that Du Bois was the founding father of scientific sociology in the United States.

— AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS — Humphrey Center – rooms 180, 184 & 186 12:00–1:00 LUNCH – HUMPHREY CENTER ATRIUM – RSVP REQUIRED Program Hosts: Elizabeth Boyle, Department Chair Kathy Hull, Director of Undergraduate Studies Joe Gerteis, spring major-project seminar instructor Doug Hartmann, fall major-project seminar instructor Jeylan Mortimer, spring major-project and honors pro-seminar. Undergraduate Award Presentations: Outstanding Undergraduate Research Paper Outstanding Undergraduate TA Outstanding Graduate Student TA Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor 1:00–2:30

PANEL SESSION II

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HEALTH AND CAREGIVING ROOM 186 Moderator: Teresa Swartz Megan Massie, “Where’s Dad?” “Where’s Mom?” The Efficacy of Sesame Street Intervention for Caregivers of Children with Incarcerated Parents Melissa Hallenbeck, Sociological Perspectives in Palliative Care Deanna Kolas, Young Adults Living at Home and Parental Relationships Sarah Catherine Billups, Healthy is the Same Old Skinny: Successful Weight Loss Narratives as Health Success Stories Caty Taborda, Forging Work Place Identities: Boundary Work and Symbolic Capital among Nonclinical Health Care Workers

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT ROOM 180 Moderator: Michelle Phelps Amber Joy Powell, My Word Against Yours: Competing Narratives of Credibility in the Child Sexual Assault Trial Rob Stewart, Exploring the Use of Criminal Records in College Admissions Taylor Day, Community and Police Relationships in the Twin Cities Claire Hepworth, Examining the Family Drawings of Children of Incarcerated Parents through Ambiguous Loss Theory

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN RACE RESEARCH ROOM 184 Moderator: Enid Logan Allison Nobles, The Role of Sexuality in Racialization and Maintaining White Dominance Natasha Moore, Our Stories As Artillery: The War on Racism Neeraj Rajasekar, Race and New Directions in “Diversity” Laura Gilbertson, Parenting and Whiteness: Suburban Pre-K Parenthood as an Activator of White Habitus Stephen Wulff, “Privileged Resistance,” Police Brutality Activism, and the Role of White Allies within Black Lives Matter

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— AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS — Humphrey Center – rooms 180, 184 & 186 2:45–4:15 A.

THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC POLICY ROOM 180 Moderator: Chris Uggen Evan Stewart, Cultural Styles of Non-Religion and Public Opinion Isabel Arriagada, Prison, Love and Consumption: The Case of Inmate Packages Lesley Schneider, Banning the Box, Keeping the Discrimination? Carly Michaud, An Exploration of Supreme Court Judicial Opinions on the Death Penalty with an Emphasis on a Justice’s Race, Class and Gender Brandon Alkire, In the House Called America: Re-examining and Redefining the Federal-Tribal Relationship

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PANEL SESSION III

LEARNING AND ACTION BEYOND THE CLASSROOM ROOM 186 Youth Programs Moderator: Doug Hartmann Amy August, Factors Shaping the Field of Kids’ Activities: The Case of Gymnastics Programs Zoe Brown, Building Effective American Indian Youth Programs: An Analysis of the 2015 CDF American Indian Freedom School Summer Program Curriculum. Ryan Larson, Mapping Youth Activities in the Twin-Cities Metro Area Student Stories From the Field Moderator: Emily Seru, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) Grace Wagner, Internship with the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability Nikita Luyken, Internship with Congressman Keith Ellison’s district office THE DENIED SCHOLARSHIP: ROOM 184 How people and their work are hidden within curriculum, disciplines, and the academic industrial complex Moderator: Rahsaan Mahadeo Rahsaan Mahadeo, Marinating Over the Anti-Ebony Tower Alex Manning, What Counts as Productive? José Manuel Santillana, Decentering Theory: The Appropriation / Denial of Chicana and Women of Color Scholarship

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GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS Matthew AguilarChampeau Arta Anakrava

2016. American Mosaic Project Edelstein Summer Fellowship. 2015. Viadrina International Program – for Graduates (VIP), Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. 2015-2016. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN.

Isabel Arriagada Sarah Catherine Billups Jack Delehanty

2016. CLA Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program.

Scott DeMuth

2015-2016. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN.

Carolyn Fraker

2015-16. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award.

Jacqui Frost

2015. American Mosaic Project Summer Research Fellowship.

Lisa Gulya

2015-16. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award.

Matthew Gunther

2016-2017. ICGC Global Food Security Fellowship. 2015. New Scholars Award, Comparative & International Education Society (CIES). 2015. Outstanding Service Award, MPC, UMN. 2015. Diversity Award, Department of Sociology, UMN. 2015-16. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award. 2016. Beverly and Richard Fink Summer Fellowship 2016. CLA Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program. 2015-2016. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN. 2015-2016. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship. 2015-2016. Badzin Graduate Fellowship CHGS, UMN. 2015. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention. 2016. American Mosaic Project Edelstein Summer Fellowship. 2016. CLA Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program. 2015-16. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award. 2016. International WaTERS Network fellowship. 2016. ICGC Pre-Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. 2016. CLA Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program. 2016. Beverly and Richard Fink Summer Fellowship 2016. American Mosaic Project Edelstein Summer Fellowship. 2015-2016. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN. 2015-2016. Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, UMN. 2015-16. Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant (co-PI with Chris Uggen). 2015-16. Korea Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship. 2016. Beverly and Richard Fink Summer Fellowship 2016-19. Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. 2016. CLA Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program. 2015-16. Anna Welsch Bright Research Award. 2015-2016. Badzin Graduate Fellowship CHGS, UMN. 2015. Sociology Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. 2015. Sociology Graduate Instructor Award.

Jasmine Trang Ha

Erin Hoekstra Anthony Jimenez Ethan Johnson Annie Jollymore Anne Kaduk Yagmur Karakaya Ryan Larson Francis Lyimo Alex Manning Devika Narayan Allison Nobles Amber Powell Neeraj Rajasekar jim saliba Evan Stewart Rob Stewart Stephen Suh Caty Taborda Aisha Upton Madison VanOort J Siguru Wahutu Lei (Frank) Zhang

2016. CLA Summer Graduate Research Partnership Program. 2015. Sociology Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS

Isabel Arriagada

Jack Delehanty

Naomi Duke

Sinan Erensu

Jacqueline Frost

Erez Garnai Jasmine Trang Ha Veronica Horowitz

Erik Kojola

Arriagada, Isabel and Diego Rochow. 2015. "Incarceration in Chile: Prison misrule and rights violation in the penal population.” Annual Human Rights Report. Chapter 4: The Penitentiary System in Chile, 2014. Universidad Diego Portales. Chapter 4: 161-208. Delehanty, John D. 2016. "Prophets of Resistance: Social Justice Activists Contesting Comfortable Church Culture." Sociology of Religion 77(1):37-58. Mortimer, Jeylan T. and Naomi Duke. (Forthcoming). “Sociology” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Second edition, edited by Brian Hopkins, Elena Geangu, and Sally Linkenauger. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Erensu, Sinan and O. Karaman. (Forthcoming). “The Work of A Few Threes: Gezi, Politics, and Space.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Erensu, Sinan. (Forthcoming). “Energizing Boom and Bust: Fragility of Hydropower and Infrastructural Politics” In Fikret Adaman (ed.) Neoliberal Modernization and Economic Growth in Turkey, London: I.B. Tauris. Erensu, Sinan, E. Evren and C. Aksu. (Forthcoming May, 2016). Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Hidro Enerji ve HES karşıtı Hareketler [Reasons of Water: Hydro Energy and Anti-Dam Movement] Istanbul: Iletisim. Erensu, Sinan, E. Turhan, F. Özlüer and A. C. Gündoğan. (Forthcoming May 2016). İsyanın ve Umudun Dip Dalgası: Günümüz Türkiyesi'nden Politik Ekoloji Tartışmaları, [Deep Currents of Uprising and Hope: Political Ecology Debates From Contemporary Turkey] Tekin: Ankara. Frost, Jacqui. (Forthcoming). “Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Non-religiosity at the Sunday Assembly." Chapter in Organized Secularism, edited by Ryan Cragun, Lori Fazziano, and Christel Manning. Frost, Jacqui. (Forthcoming). Review of American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems, by Joseph Baker and Buster Smith. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 54(4). Garnai, Erez. 2016. “In the Chains of Intuition: On Punishment, Deterrence and Prisons in Israel”. Teoria Vebikoret 46 [("Theory and Criticism") [Forthcoming, in Hebrew] Boyle, Elizabeth Heger & Jasmine Trang Ha. (Forthcoming) “Refugees” in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: New Perspectives and Agendas, edited by Andy Furlong. Horowitz, V., KaneRismen, A., Scrivner, E., & Wright, J. 2015. Domestic Report on Children of Incarcerated Caregivers, Minneapolis. Horowitz, V. 2015. (book review) Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. Authors: Susan Sered & Maureen Norton-Hawk. Criminal Justice Review, 40(3) 406-408. Moen, Phyllis, Erik Kojola and Kate Schaefers. (Forthcoming 2016). “Institutional Work around Older Talent.” The Gerontologist. Kojola, Erik and Phyllis Moen. 2016. “No More Lock-Step Retirement: Boomers’ Shifting Meanings of Work and Retirement.” Journal of Aging Studies. (Available online)

GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Erik Kojola

Ryan Larson

Alex Manning

Suzy Maves McElrath

Evan Stewart

Robert Stewart Stephen Suh

Stephen Suh

J. Siguru Wahutu

Lei Zhang

Kojola, Erik. 2015. "(Re)constructing the pipeline: Workers, environmentalists and ideology in media coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline." Critical Sociology. (Available online) Hawkins, Daniel, Andrew Lindner, Ryan Larson, and Johnathan Santos. 2015. “Overrating Bruins, Underrating Badgers: Media, Prestige, and College Basketball Rankings." Journal of Sports Management and Commercialization 6(3): 11-26. Manning, Alex, Douglas Hartmann, and Joseph Gerteis. 2015. "Colorblindness in Black and White: An Analysis of Core Tenets, Configurations, and Complexities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 1(4): 532-546. Ferrales, Gabrielle, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Suzy McElrath. (Forthcoming in 2016). “Gender-Based Violence Against Men and Boys in Darfur: What is Gendered About Genocide?” Gender & Society. Stewart, Evan. 2016. “Simply White: Race, Politics, and Invisibility in Advertising Depictions of Farm Labor.” in Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World edited by Marion Crain, Winifred Poster and Miriam Cherry. Berkeley: University of California Press. Stewart, Evan. 2016. “The True (Non)Believer? Atheism and the Atheistic in the United States” in Annual Review of Sociology of Religion Vol 6: Sociology of Atheism edited by Roberto Cipriani and Franco Garelli. London: Brill. Uggen, Christopher, and Robert Stewart. 2015. "Piling On: Collateral Consequences and Community Supervision." Minnesota Law Review, 99:1871-1910. Suh, Stephen. 2016. “Negotiating Masculinity across Borders: A Transnational Examination of Korean American Masculinities.” Journal of Men and Masculinities 1-28. Suh, Stephen and Kyle Green. 2015. “Tie-in: Culture of Poverty” in Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, eds., Getting Culture (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.). Suh, Stephen and Kyle Green. 2015. “Tie-in: Food as an object of cultural analysis” in Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, eds., Getting Culture (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.). Suh, Stephen, and Kyle Green. 2015. “Tie-in: Zombies and Hipsters: Subcultural life” in Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, eds., Getting Culture (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.). Wahutu, J Siguru. (Forthcoming). "In the case of Africa in general, there is a tendency to exaggerate: Representing Mass atrocity Coverage in Africa," Media Culture and Society. Tade O. Okediji and S.J. Wahutu (in press). “Ethnicity and Its Role in ‘Political Formation[s] in Kenya’: 1963-2007,” in Protest, Dissent, International Boundary Disputes, and Ethno/Nationalist Aspirations in Africa, Toyin Falola & Mbah Emmanuel (eds). Routledge. Hussemann, Jeanette, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Lei Zhang. (Forthcoming). “Exploring the Correlates of Parental Consent for Child Survey Participation: An Intergenerational Longitudinal Study.” Public Opinion Quarterly.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS Arta Anakrava

Amy August

Sarah Catherine Billups

Jack Delehanty

Jacqueline Frost

Erez Garnai Jasmine Trang Ha

Anakrava, Arta. Upcoming: “From Displaced Persons to Exiles: Latvian Language Publications in Austria,” Global, Glocal, & Local: Distinction and Interconnection in the Baltic States, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) Conference. U of PA, May 2016, Philadelphia. Anakrava, Arta. 2015. “Latvian and Vietnamese Immigrants: A Comparison of Anti-Communist Immigrant Groups to the U.S. During the Cold War,” Immigrant America: New Immigration Histories from 1965 to 2015. IHRC, October, UMN. Doug Hartmann, Sarah Catherine Billups, and Amy August. 2016. "A Not-So-Level Playing Field: The Value of Ethnography in Studying Inequality in Children's Extracurricular Activities." MSS, March, Chicago. August, Amy. 2016. "Factors Shaping the Field of Kids’ Activities: The Case of Gymnastics Programs." MSS, March, Chicago. Hartmann, Doug, Sarah Catherine Billups, Amy August. 2016. “A NotSo-Level Playing Field: The Value of Ethnography in Studying Inequality in Children's Extracurricular Activities.” MSS, March, Chicago. Billups, Sarah Catherine. 2016. “What Makes it All Fun and Games?: Ethnography of Inequality in Youth Tennis.” MSS March, Chicago. Delehanty, Jack. 2016. “Self-Interest and Shared Struggle: Cultural Individualism and Movements for Collective Change.” February, Sociology Department Workshop, UMN. Delehanty, Jack. 2015. “Faith Movements and the Politics of Inequality.” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion , Oct., Newport Beach, CA. Delehanty, Jack, Penny Edgell, and Evan Stewart. 2015. “Post Secular? Post Political? Support for Public Religious Expression in the American Public Sphere.” ASA, August, Chicago. Stewart, Evan, Penny Edgell, and Jack Delehanty. 2015. “The Politics of Religious Prejudice: Persistence of Cultural Others Despite Growing Tolerance.” ASA, Aug, Chicago. Delehanty, Jack, Penny Edgell, and Evan Stewart. “Post Secular? Post Political? Support for Public Religious Expression in the American Public Sphere.” Henry Institute Symposium on Religion and Public Life. Calvin College, May, Grand Rapids, MI Jacqui Frost. 2016. “Non-religion as Quest: The Collective Search for Positive Non-religious Identities at the Sunday Assembly.” MSS, March, Chicago. Evan Stewart and Jacqui Frost. 2016. “Borderlands Beyond the '3Bs': Toward a Relational Measure of Non-religion in Public Life.” MSS, March, Chicago. Jacqui Frost. 2015. “Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Organizing Atheist Church in Minneapolis/St. Paul.” ASA, August, Chicago. Garnai, Erez. 2015. “Legislation and Enforcement of Alcohol Laws in Israel: A Comparative Study of Two Cities.” ASC , Nov., Washington, D.C. Ha, Jasmine Trang. 2016. “Globally Competitive, Locally Contradictory: An Analysis of International Students Migration Flows in the United States.” LSA, June, New Orleans. Ha, Jasmine Trang. 2016. “International Student Migration in the United States.” Inequality & Methods Workshop, MPC, May, UMN. Abel, Guy J., Jack DeWaard, Zack W. Almquist, Jasmine Trang Ha. 2016. “The Form and Evolution of International Migration Flow Networks.” of the PAA, March, Washington, DC. Ha, Jasmine Trang. 2016. “Migrants or Tourists? An Analysis of International Student Migration Flows in the United States, 2002-2014.” of the Comparative and International Education Society, March, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Ha, Jasmine Trang. 2015. “International Students in the United States: Navigating the Discourses of Trade, Education, and Migration.” LSA, May, Seattle. Ha, Jasmine Trang. 2015. “Inter-generational Ties and Fertility in China after Implementation of One-Child Policy: Evidence from the 1982 and 1990 Census.” PAA, April, San Diego.

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS Veronica Horowitz

Annie Jollymore Anne Kaduk

Yagmur Karakaya

Erik Kojola

Ryan Larson

Alex Manning

Horowitz, V. (scheduled 2016) “The impact of crime and arrest on self-esteem: A longitudinal analysis.” LSA, June, New Orleans. Horowitz, V., & Uggen, C. 2015. “The case for commutation.” ASC, November, Washington, DC. Horowitz, V., KaneRismen, A., Scrivner, E., & Wright, J. 2015. Children of Incarcerated Caregivers Reception. Sept., Minneapolis. Horowitz, V., & Uggen, C. 2015. “Mercy and commutation in the mass incarceration era.” ASA Meetings, August, Chicago. Jollymore, Annie. 2015. "Muslims and Latinos: the production of racialized citizenship in challenges to profiling." LSA, May, Seattle. Kaduk, Anne. 2016. "Step Up or Step Back? The Impact of NonEmployment Duration and Reason on Women's Workforce Reentry." PAA, March, Washington DC. Kaduk, Anne. 2015. “Multiple Agendas? How Women’s Reasons for Employment Exits Affect Their Return to Work.” Poster Presentation at PAA, May, San Diego. Kaduk, Anne. 2015. “Multiple Agendas? How Women’s Reasons for Employment Exits Affect Their Return to Work.” ASA, Aug., Chicago. Karakaya, Yagmur. 2016. “Nostalgia as an Analytical Tool applied to Turkey’s Relationship with its past.” ASA, August, Seattle. Karakaya, Yagmur, Teresa Gowan. 2016. “Drinking the Other: The Unifying Metaphor of Addiction in HBO’s True Blood.” ASA, Aug., Seattle. Karakaya, Yagmur. Alejandro Baer. 2015. “Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Politics in Turkey and Spain.” ASA , August, Chicago. Karakaya, Yagmur, Erik Kojola, Erin Kelly, Phyllis Moen. 2015. “Exit Strategies-Contingencies and Dynamics of IT Boomers Retirement.” MSS Meeting, March, Kansas City. Kojola, Erik. 2015. “(Re)constructing the Pipeline: Workers, environmentalists and ideology in media coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline.” Environmental Labour Studies Conference. September, Stockholm, Sweden. Kojola, Erik. 2015. “(Re)constructing the Pipeline: Workers, Environmentalists and Ideology in Media Coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline.” Paper Session, Section on Labor and Labor Movements.” ASA , August, Chicago. Moen, Phyllis and Erik Kojola (presenter). 2015. “Working Longer: Do IT Boomers’ Expectations Differ by Gender?” Roundtable, Section on Aging and Life Course. ASA, August, Chicago. Kojola, Erik. 2015. “Permitting Discourses of Science and Risk in the Politics of Copper Mining in Minnesota.” Knowledge from the Margins: Social Justice & Sustainability Conference, August, East Lansing, MI. Hartmann, Doug, Ryan Larson, Paul Croll, Alex Manning, and Joseph Gerteis. 2016. “Colorblindness as Identity: Key Determinants, Relations to Ideology, and Implicatios for Attitudes about Race and Policy." MSS, March, Chicago. Hawkins, Daniel, Andrew M. Lindner, and Ryan Larson. 2015. “Overrating Bruins, Underrating Lobos: Media, Prestige, and College Basketball." The Sixth International Conference on Sport and Society. March, Toronto, Canada. Manning, Alex. 2016. “Free Play Gender and The Presence of Masculinity.” Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference. February, Las Vegas. Manning, Alex, Teresa Swartz and Lisa Gulya. 2016. "What Parents and Kids think of Extracurricular Activities: Varying Motivations, Understandings, & Experiences.” MSS, March, Chicago

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Alex Manning

Suzy Maves McElrath

Devika Narayan

Allison Nobles

jim saliba

J. Siguru Wahutu

Evan Stewart

Robert Stewart Stephen Suh

Manning, Alex, Teresa Swartz & Lisa Gulya. 2016."For Fun or for Futures?: How Parents & Children from Diverse Racial & Class Backgrounds Understand & Talk about Youth Activities." MSS, March, Chicago. Manning, Alex. "Multiracial Identity and Its Multiple Social Dimensions." FUSION, Feb. Hamline University, St. Paul. McElrath, Suzy Maves and Hollie Nyseth Brehm. 2015. “GenderBased Violence Against Men & Boys in Darfur.” ASA, Aug, Chicago. McElrath, Suzy Maves. 2015. “The Global Diffusion of Genocide Law.” ASC , Nov., Washington, D.C. Narayan, Devika. 2015. “The Changing Terrain of Software Labor in India” at Annual South Asia Conference, October, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. Nobles. Allison, Gabrielle Ferrales, Hollie Nyseth-Brehm, and Michael Englehart. 2015. "'We Will Kill the Men and Take All the Women as Wives': Gender-Based Violence in Darfur." ASC , November, Washington, D.C. Nobles. Allison. 2015. "Lacking a Human Rights Framework: Sexual Assault on U.S. College Campuses." ASA, August, Chicago. saliba, jim. 2015. “Protection and Exclusion: School Racial Composition and Teacher Resource Adequacy in the United States, 1993-2011.” PSA, April, Oakland, California. saliba, jim. 2015. “Protection and Exclusion: School Racial Composition and Teacher Resource Adequacy in the United States, 1993-2011.” Soc of Education Association Annual Conference, February, Pacific Grove, California. saliba, jim. 2015. “Boundaries and Thresholds: School Racial Composition and Teacher Resource Adequacy in K-12 Schools in the United States, 1993-2011.” Social Science History Assoc., Nov., Baltimore. saliba, jim. 2015. “Governance Structure, Racial Segregation, and K-12 Teacher Resource Inequities in the United States: 19932011.” Society for the Study of Social Problems, August, Chicago. Wahutu, J. Siguru. 2016. “What African Media? Rethinking research on representations of Africa in Africa’s press” accepted for presentation at the Annual Africa Conference on Social Movements, Political Expression and Religion. March, University of Texas Austin. Wahutu, J. Siguru. 2015. “What African Media? Rethinking research on representations of Africa in Africa’s press” African Studies Association meeting, November San Diego. Wahutu, J. Siguru. 2015. “What African Media? Rethinking research on representations of Africa in Africa’s press” ASA Pre-Conference on Media, Kellogg School of Management, August, Chicago. Stewart, Evan (presenter), Ryan Steel, Caitlin Taborda, and Penny Edgell. 2016. “Comparing Public and Private Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the United States.” MSS, March, Chicago. Stewart, Evan and Jacqui Frost. 2016. "Borderlands Beyond the 3B's: Toward a relational measure of non-religion in public life." MSS, March, Chicago. Stewart, Evan, Penny Edgell, and Jack Delehanty. 2015. “The Politics of Religious Prejudice: Persistence of Cultural Others Despite Growing Tolerance.” ASA, August, Chicago. Stewart, Robert. 2015. "Criminal History and the College Admissions Process." ASC, November, Washington, DC. Suh, Stephen. 2016. “Negotiating Masculinity across Borders: A Transnational examination of Korean American Masculinities.” Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Conference, Feb., Las Vegas

GRADUATE STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Stephen Suh

Caty Taborda

Aisha Upton

Andy Wu Stephen Wulff

Suh, Stephen. 2015. “Nostalgic for the Unfamiliar: Korean American ethnic return migration and its competing logics.” Next-Gen Korean Studies Conf. May, U of MI, Ann Arbor. Suh, Stephen. 2015. “Negotiating Race and Masculinity across Borders: A Transnational examination of Korean American Masculinities.” ASA, August, Chicago. Suh, Stephen. 2015. “Nostalgic for the Unfamiliar: Korean American ethnic return migration and its competing logics.” April, Sociology Department Workshop, UMN. Stewart, Evan, Ryan Steel, Caitlin Taborda (presenter), Penny Edgell. “Comparing Public and Private Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the United States.” ESS, March, Boston. Taborda, Caitlin, Cindy L. Cain, Monica Frazer. “Forging Professional Identities: Lay Health Care Workers and Expertise.” Carework MiniConference, ESS, March, Boston. Upton, Aisha. 2016. "Through the Years: A Black Sorority's Response to the Black Feminist Movement." MSS, March, Chicago. Upton, Aisha and Candice Robinson. 2015. “The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: An Examination of Bridge Leadership on Twitter." Association of Black Sociologists, Aug. Chicago. Staff, Jeremy, Jen Doty, Andy Wu, Jeylan Mortimer, and Monica Johnson. 2015. “Parental Education and Child Well-being: A Prospective Longitudinal Study.” PAA, May, San Diego. Wulff, Stephen. 2016. “Policing Dissent Beyond Large-Scale Demonstrations: Strategic Incapacitation, Police Brutality Activism, & Small-Scale Protest Efforts.” MSS, March, Chicago. Wulff, Stephen. 2015. “When the Punishment is the Crime: Penal Dramas, Framing, and Transgender Activism in the Case of ‘Jane Doe.’” ASC, Nov., Washington, DC. Wulff, Stephen. 2015. “The Professionalized Activist: Routinization, Organizational Autonomy, and the Emotional Fulfillment of LGBTQ Activists.” MSS Meeting, March, Kansas City.

GRADUATE STUDENT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Isabel Arriagada Amy August

Interpreter in the Center for New Americans. U of M Law School. 2015-2016. Lead Curator, Education and Society, The Society Pages.

Jacqui Frost

2015-2016. The Society Pages, Graduate Editorial Board.

Allison Nobles

2015. Healthy Families Initiative, St. Stephen’s Human Services, Program Evaluator. 2016. Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability, Volunteer. 2015-2016. The Society Pages, Graduate Editorial Board.

Evan Stewart Robert Stewart

2015-2016. The Society Pages, Graduate Editorial Board. 2015-16. Chair, University of Minnesota Student Senate. 2015-16. Steering Committee Member, Minnesota Second Chance Coalition.

Caty Taborda

Executive Vice Present, Graduate Students of Color Alliance.

Aisha Upton

Membership chair for the YWCA Young Leaders Board in Pittsburgh, PA. Student rep for the Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities of ASA.

Ph.D. DEGREES AWARDED & RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PLACEMENTS Vania Brightman Cox Dissertation Title: “An Ethnographic Discourse Analysis of Anti-Trafficking Activism.” Dr. Brightman Cox is a Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. Sinan Erensu (Ph.D. expected August 2016) Dissertation Title: “Fragile Energy: Power, Nature and Politics of Infrastructure in the ‘New Turkey.’” Sinan has accepted a position as a Post-doctoral Researcher at Keyman Turkish Studies/Department of Sociology, Buffett Institute, Northwestern University. Wen Fan Dissertation Title: “Children of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Disrupted Education, Send-Down Experiences, and Midlife Health.” Dr. Fan is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Boston College. Kyle Green Dissertation Title: “The Allure of Mixed Martial Arts: Meaning Making, Masculinity, and Embodiment in Suburbia.” Dr. Green is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Utica College. Kia Heise Dissertation Title: “Interactive Framing Dynamics and Ideological Boundaries in the American Abortion Debate.” Dr. Heise is a Lecturer, California State University, Los Angeles. Anne Kaduk (Ph.D. expected summer 2016) “Women Returning to Work Across the Life Course: Who Does It, Why, and What do They Return To?” Ms. Kaduk has accepted a positon as a Quantitative Researcher, Growth Population and Survey Science for Facebook. Sarah Lageson Dissertation Title: “Digital Punishment in an Era of Online Crime Reporting.” Dr. Lageson is an Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice Jack Lam Dissertation Title: “Job Insecurity, Adaptive Strategies and Health in Early Adulthood.” Dr. Lam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Wenjie Liao Dissertation Title: “Remembering the Faces of Law: Collective Memories and Legal Consciousness in Traditional China.” Dr. Liao is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Liying Luo Dissertation Title: “Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: Critiques and Innovations.” Dr. Luo is an Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at University of Delaware-Newark. Stephen Cho Suh (Ph.D. expected April 2016) “Nostalgic for the Unfamiliar: An examination of the competing motivations behind the ethnic return migration of US-raised Koreans.” Mr. Suh has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women's & Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Sarah Whetstone (Ph.D. expected May 2016) “Unequal Treatment: Race, Class and Addiction Recovery in American Life.” Lei Frank Zhang (Ph.D. expected June 2016) “Business Performance of Chinese Enterprises in a Relational Perspective.” Mr. Zhang as accepted a position as an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS 2016-17 CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarship Margaret Craig Barbara Newsome Internship Award Recipients Jazmin Awada Jacob Cox Margaret Craig Rachael Drago Liz Guggisberg Melissa Hallenbeck

Kou Kevin Hang Cynthia Hauser Caitlin Jung Brooke Knight Sujung Lee Eli Livon

Carly Michaud Marissa Paananen Renee Rippberger Laurel Ruesch Kaitlyn Szabo Cole Waldhauser

Undergraduate Capstone Award Recipients Brandon Alkire

Federal – Native Relationship.

Taylor Day

Police and Community Relationships.

Camille Galles

The Politics of Trigger Warnings.

Melissa Hallenbeck

Sociological Perspectives of Palliative Care.

Leslie Schneider

Minnesota’s Ban the Box Policy and Employer Opinion.

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant (UROP) Javaris Bradford

Empathetic Connections and Structured Inequality, with Prof. Enid Logan.

Sujung Lee

The Influence of Social Class Background on Asian International Students' and American Students' Educational Decisions, with Prof. Jeylan Mortimer.

Evelyn Reilly

Question of Faith: Exploring the Basis of Trust for Minneapolis Halal Meat Consumers, with Prof. Rachel Schurman.

Rishi Roy

Exploring the Role of Probation in Exacerbating Racial Inequality, with Prof. Michelle Phelps.

2015-16 HONORS PRO-SEMINAR CLASS

Front row: Zoe Brown, Melissa Hallenbeck, Megan Massie, and Deanna Kolas Back row: Carly Michaud, Lesley Schneider, Taylor Day,Professor Jeylan Mortimer, Camille Galles, and Claire Hepworth