The Social Network

The Social Network is the Department of Sociology's newsletter, which goes out biannually. You can read our most recent edition here.

If you would like to review older issues, please contact the department.

You can find more news about our department below:

• New Research Grants

• Recent Graduates

• Dissertation Fellowships

• Recent Professional Honors

• Recent Books by Faculty

• UC Sociology in the Media

New Research Grants

• Danielle Bessett has been named Co-Investigator for the Community Health Program Grant, Center for Clinical & Translational Science & Training (CCTST) examining Contraception Uptake among High Risk Populations: Improving Reproductive Health Services Offered in Public Health Systems (Principal Investigator: Jennifer L. Mooney, Hamilton County Reproductive Health & Wellness Program Director, Cincinnati Health Department) 

• Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Littisha Bates, and Maliq Matthew received a grant from the Fordham Institute to evaluate the research on children’s pathways out of poverty.

• Jennifer Malat is working on The Ohio Collaborative, a March of Dimes-funded project to understand how stress affects premature birth.

• David Maume received an NSF grant to study how sleep problems affects rates of depression, substance use, and obesity among teenagers.

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Recent Graduates

A list of our recent MA graduates can be found here.

A list of our recent PhD graduates can be found here. 

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Dissertation Fellowships

Two of our PhD students won Dissertation Fellowships for 2014-15 from the Taft Research Center: Ciera Graham, for her study, Black Spaces at White Insitutions: How Do Black Students Perceive and Utilize Black Student Campus Organizations at Predominately White Urban and Rural Insitutions? and Aaryn Green for Color TV: Does Popular Television Programming Simultaneously Promote Colorblindness and Nonwhite Racial Stereotypes and If So, How?

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Recent Professional Honors

• Steven Carlton-Ford: voted Chari-Elect of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association. 

• Littisha Bates: named a 2017 Rising Star by the YWCA Academy of Career Women of Achievement and handpicked to receive the Terry Kershaw Social Justice and Legacy Award

• Danielle Bessett: recipient of the Student Choice Award for Woman of the Year, recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Medical Sociology ASA section

• Erynn Casanova: elected President of the Ecuadorian Studies Section of the LAtin American Studies Association (LASA).

• Annulla Linders: President of the North Central Sociological Association (2017-2018), Editor of Sociological Focus, and Co-Editor (with Earl Wright II) of Social Problems starting in June 2018

• David Maume: elected by the Fellows of the Graduate School as one of its Fellows

• Earl Wright II: Co-Editor (with Annulla Linders) of Social Problems starting in June 2018

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Recent Books by Faculty

• Rajack-Talley, Theresa and Derrick R. Brooms (eds.). 2018. Living Racism: Through the Barrel of the Book. Lexington Books. 

• Brooms, Derrick. 2017. Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences.SUNY Press. 

• Davis, Shannon N., Sarah Winslow, and David J. Maume (eds.). 2017. Gender in the Twenty-First Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality. University of California Press.

• Wright II, Earl and Thomas C. Calhoun (eds.). 2016. What to Expect and How to Respond: Distress and Success in Academia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

• Casanova, Erynn Masi de. 2015. Buttoned Up: Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity. Cornell University Press. 

• Wright II, Earl. 2015. The First American School of Sociology: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. Routledge.

• Wright II, Earl and Edward V. Wallace. 2015. The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology. Routledge.

• Jafar, Afshan and Erynn Masi de Casanova (eds.). 2013. Global Beauty, Local Bodies. Palgrave McMillan.

• Casanova, Erynn Masi de and Afshan Jafar (eds.). 2013. Bodies Without Borders. Palgrave McMillan.

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UC Sociology in the Media

• Erynn Masi deCasanova and Anna Linders: research featured in "The Gown and the Gallows" in UC Magazine. August 1, 2017.

• Jeffrey Timberlake and Jennifer Malat: research discussed in "Trump Voters Are Feeling It" in The New  York Times. December 8, 2016.

• Erynn Masi de Casanova: featured in "It's Raining Menswear" in The New Yorker. November 12, 2015. 
• Danielle Bessett and Stef Murawsky: featured in "Yeah, We Shouldn't Be Learning Abour Pregnancy from TV" in the Huffington Post. 

• Jeffrey Timberlake: Interview on Cincinnati Edition: Clybourne Park Exposes Diversity and Location. January 19, 2014.

• David Maume: Interview on NPR's Morning Edition: Teenagers Who Feel Supported At Home and School Sleep Better. December 5, 2013.

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