COLLEGE OF
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Ohio State
Department of Sociology The Ohio State University 300 Bricker Hall 190 N. Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210
Sociology News
Supporting the Sociology Department Dear Alumni and Friends, You are important to supporting the excellence that makes Ohio State Sociology a special place. Please consider a donation to the department’s following funds. For questions, contact the chair, Craig Jenkins, (614) 292-5452, or the department fiscal officer, Marty Moffa, (614) 292-8432. If you would like to contribute to our new library and computer labs at Townshend Hall, please donate to the Townshend Building Fund (Special Fund #312552).
Simon and Mildred Dinitz Graduate Fellowship in Criminology (Special Fund #641746) William Form and Joan Huber Graduate Fellowship Fund (Special Fund #642257)
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Hagerty Criminology Fund for graduate fellowships in criminology (Special Fund #602855)
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Lumley Memorial for undergraduate fellowships (Special Fund #604378)
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Albert Garber Scott Fellowships for Undergraduates (Special Fund #606423)
Townshend Hall, future home of Sociology
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From the Chair
Faculty News
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Ohio State Sociology News! We are an intellectual community of 33 distinguished faculty, over 100 graduate students, and over 1,000 undergraduate majors, all supported by 13 able and dedicated staff members. Our department is proud of its commitment to excellence in scholarship and instruction, which is reflected by our ranking as a top 20 department nationwide. We recently received recognition as the nation’s #1 department in terms of articles published in the top three journals of the discipline. We put students first by providing first-class instruction and research opportunities for our undergraduate and graduate students. We were recently targeted for special investment by the provost for our excellence in Population and Health, which has allowed us to add three new faculty in the past two years.
Angelo Alonzo, Associate Professor, was approved to carry the esteemed title of Emeritus Professor and has moved to Yale University to become a research scientist in the School of Nursing.
During the summer of 2008, we will be moving to our new offices in Townshend Hall. This is an historic building— the third building on the Ohio State campus, which we will rededicate during the 2008-09 academic year. Look forward to more news about that event. (Townshend is located next to the Thompson Library and the Recreation and Physical Activity Center.) I am sure there is more news that we could not fit into this issue or overlooked, so please let us know about your important events and recognitions! More details are available on our department web site: sociology.osu.edu.
We currently can accept donations only by check. Make checks payable to The Ohio State University.
Claudia Buchmann, Associate Professor, was elected chair of the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association. John Casterline, Professor, joined the faculty and became the fifth holder of the Robert T. Lazarus Chair in Population Studies. He is internationally known for his work on fertility, demographic transition, and the demography of low-income countries. Cynthia Colen, Assistant Professor, joined the faculty after completing her PhD at the University of Michigan and being a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at Columbia University. Her research focuses on social disparities in health. Doug Downey, Professor, was awarded the 2007 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the most prestigious award for teaching at Ohio State. Korie Edwards, Assistant Professor, was keynote speaker at the 2006 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly. Randy Hodson, Professor, was awarded the 2007 University Distinguished Scholar Award, the most prestigious award given to a senior scholar at Ohio State. Randy Hodson and Vinnie Roscigno became editors of the American Sociological Review, the top journal in the discipline.
Please send checks to: The Ohio State University Department of Sociology 1010 Derby Hall 154 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1330
Winter 2008
J. Craig Jenkins Chair
(614) 292-8448 sociology.osu.edu
Please submit newsletter items and address corrections to newsletter@sociology.osu.edu.
Robert Kaufman, Professor, was appointed associate dean in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State. Laurie Krivo, Professor, and Ruth Peterson, Professor, were awarded the Julius Debro Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime of the American Society of Criminology for their commitment to professional organizations and academic institutions that advance criminal justice. Steve Lopez, Assistant Professor, received the Citation of Excellence from Emerald Reviews for his paper “Emotional Labor and Organized Emotional Care: Conceptualizing Nursing Home Care Work.”