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Yuwen Michelson ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Laos. A sociology concentrator at Hamilton, she served as a volunteer English teacher through Global Vision International in Laos during summer, 2014.
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Renowned social psychologist Carmi Schooler ’54 recently received the Cooley Mead Lifetime Achievement Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association.
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In an essay published by Inside Higher Ed, Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss observed that on the day after the election and for the rest of the semester his students were “as committed to learning as any students I’ve seen in 40 years of college teaching.”
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James Kennedy Jr. ’85 was appointed to succeed William Hochul Jr. as acting U.S. Attorney.
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Figuring out where a major in government or world politics might lead a student for a summer or for a career may seem daunting for any undergrad but possibly less so after five Hamilton students explained their recent career-related experiences.
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Daniel Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, presented “The Routinization of Suffering” as a keynote speaker at the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Pain Management conference on Sept. 30.
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Kateri Boucher ’17 recently presented a research paper at the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) conference in Seattle. Her paper, ‘Too Smart to be Religious?’ Discreet Seeking Amidst Religious Stigma at an Elite College,” was published in Social Inclusion.
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Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson is the author of To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement, published this month by the University of Chicago Press. The book chronicles the religious environmental movement and its commitment to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic.
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Sarah Knapp Damaske ’99, a sociologist specializing in gender, work-family, class and race, was recently featured in an article on The Society Pages (TSP), where she responded to a column by George Will.
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Hamilton College President David Wippman announced the promotion of four faculty members to the rank of professor. Heather Buchman, music; Stephen Ellingson, sociology; Ella Gant, art; and Chaise LaDousa, anthropology, were promoted effective July 1.
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