News/Announcements
Daniel Burridge receives David B. Houston Award from the Center for Latin American Studies
Congratulations to Danny Burridge on receiving the David B. Houston Award from the Center for Latin American Studies. This annual prize is awarded to those students whose academic interests and career plans focus on human
rights and social justice, particularly in Latin America.
Ayşe Alnıaçık has an article in Social Politics
Congratulations to Ayşe Alnıaçık on her Social Politics article, “Gender Policy Architecture in Turkey: Localizing Transnational Discourses of Women’s Employment." See Ayşe's article via the link in the "News" tab on this page.
Professor Dana Moss wins three awards for her Social Problems article on transnational repression
Hatem Hassan accepted into the Summer Institute on Critical Security Studies in the Arab World in Beirut, Lebanon
Professor Dana Moss' analysis of the politics regarding Syrian support for intervention in the Washington Post
Sociology major, Hashaam Jamil, wins Coro Pittsburgh's Distinguished Emerging Leadership Award
Professor Mark Paterson's new book: Seeing With the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch after Descartes
Professors Jackie Smith and John Markoff's new book publication: Social Movements and World-System Transformation
Professor Melanie M. Hughes interviewed on NPR on “Why Does Pennsylvania Elect So Few Women to Political Office?”
Professor Melanie Hughes was recently interviewed on NPR radio on the topic of “Why Does Pennsylvania Elect So Few Women to Political Office?”
Professor Jackie Smith is the winner of this year's Iris Marion Young Award for Political Engagement
Congratulations to Jackie Smith who is the faculty winner of this year's Iris Marion Young Award for Political Engagement sponsored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, November 17 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the William Pitt Union, and there is a panel on Art, Gentrification, and Urban Communities