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Brian Donovan, Chair Elect 2023, delivered his presidential address, “The Inevitability and Promise of Historical Sociology” at the 2023 MSS annual meeting in Minneapolis
The MSS Annual Meeting dedicated to building community among sociologists and to advancing sociological knowledge, teaching, and practice for social scientific purposes and social betterment, provides engaging forums for the sharing, critique, dissemination, and application of social scientific knowledge, including through its annual meeting and its journal, The Sociological Quarterly. ...
Brian Donovan's Presidential Address at the 2023 MSS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis was published in The Sociological Quarterly (Opens in new window)
As sociologists, we engage in history whether or not we see ourselves, professionally, as historical sociologists. These remarks discuss the varieties of ways sociologists use and approach historical scholarship, including history-as-context, analytic comparative/historical sociology, and interpretive approaches. I also reflect on the first fifty years of Midwest Sociological Society to...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored "Network Ties, Upward Status Heterophily, and Unanticipated Health Consequences" (Opens in new window)
ChangHwan Kim co-authored "Changing Undergraduate Funding Mix and Graduate Degree Attainment" (Opens in new window)
Previous studies of the role of college students’ funding sources in their educational outcomes have focused on individual funding sources and have not paid much attention to the mixing of multiple sources. As rising college tuition has heightened the financial burden on college students, the use of multiple funding sources...
Gerald K. McCannon, Lisa-Marie Wright and Angie Hendershot (Assoc. Prof. of the Practice, Journalism) receive small Grant
Kevin McCannon, Lisa-Marie Wright, and Angie Hendershot (Associate Professor of the Practice, Journalism) received a combination of $1,250 in support from the KU-Edwards Research Small Grant fund and the School of Journalism Rapid Response Fund for their qualitative study on how first-generation and non-tenure track sociology faculty manage their sense...
Kelly H. Chong receives GRF
Sociology Chair Kelly H. Chong received the GRF for documentary in-progress, "Invisibility and Rage: Asian Americans, Racial Trauma, and Mental Health." ...
KU Sociology Department ranked in the top 50 among public universities in 2022
Rankings reported from the U.S. News & World Report. ...
Tracey LaPierre and colleagues publish "Anything that Benefits the Workers Should Benefit the Client" (Opens in new window)
Self-directed care (SDC) models allow Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) consumers to direct their own care, thus supporting flexible, person-centered care. There are many benefits to the SDC model but access to resources is essential to successful outcomes. Considering the autonomy and flexibility associated with SDC, it is important...
Matt Erickson co-authors article "Tied Staying on the Rise? Declining Migration Among Co-Breadwinner Couples in the United States, 1990s to 2010s" (Opens in new window)
Annual Social and Economic Supplements of the Current Population Survey, we examine whether co-breadwinner married couples have become less likely to migrate within the US relative to couples with a sole or primary breadwinner. We find a general U-shaped association between wives’ share of a married couple’s income and that...
Matt Erickson wins the IPUMS CPS Research Awards with his paper in Social Forces (Opens in new window)
This study examines a possible connection between shifting gender and family norms and declining internal migration. Using data from the 1989–1998 and 2009–2018 Annual Social and Economic Supplements of the Current Population Survey, we examine whether co-breadwinner married couples have become less likely to migrate within the US relative to...
Kevin McCannon nominated by Fac ex to serve as Chair
Kevin McCannon was nominated by FacEx to be on the Teaching Professor Policy Ad Hoc Committee, which is supported by the Office of Faculty Affairs. This committee is charged to develop policy recommendations for the Teaching Professor title series by the end of this year. Keeping equity, accessibility, consistency, and...
ChangHwan Kim co-authors "Employment Transitions among Older Americans during the Initial Lockdown and Early Reopening Months of the COVID-19 Recession" (Opens in new window)
This study examines the employment status of older Americans in the months immediately before and after the peak COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020. The authors construct longitudinal employment data from 2019–2020 Current Population Surveys. To account for seasonal fluctuations in employment and retirement patterns that are not unique to the...
Argun Saatcioglu article "Preference Compromise and Parent Satisfaction with Schools in Choice Markets: Evidence from Kansas City, Missouri" from Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (Opens in new window)
Parents desire several features when choosing a school, but they often compromise on some preferences in favor of others. We develop a novel measure of aggregate preference compromise by examining the discrepancy between ideal preferences and those specified under real-world constraints. Relying on data from a representative sample in Kansas...
Jennifer Babitzke wins award (Opens in new window)
Jennifer Babitzke wins the Outstanding Thesis Award from the College Office of Graduate Affairs for her M.A. thesis. ...
Lisa-Marie Wright's application to CTE's Course Design Institute accepted (Opens in new window)
Lisa-MarieWright's application to CTE's Course Design Institute was accepted for development on her SOC 280 (Intro Social Research) course. ...
Brock Ternes receives a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at SUNY Oswego (Opens in new window)
Brock Ternes accepts tenure-track Assist. Prof. position at SUNY Oswego! ...
ChangHwan Kim publishes article in Korean Journal
ChangHwan Kim publishes article "Family Socioeconomic Background and the Gender Difference in the Likelihood of Graduate Education” in the Korean Journal of Sociology 56(1):151-201. ...
Tracey LaPierre, Gerald K. McCannon and Lisa-Marie Wright CTE application accepted
Joint application to CTE's Mapping and Assessment Planning (MAP) Program accepted. ...
Kevin McCannon received an R&R for his submission of a teaching resource from ASA
Kevin McCannon published “COVID-19 and the American Family Project,” a project from his Principles of Family Sociology course in which students interviewed family members about COVID, on the American Sociological Association’s peer-reviewed teaching resource website, TRAILS. For this project, Kevin will be using data students collected to explore how families...
Elise Neumann receives teaching position
Elise Neumann receives a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Winston-Salem. ...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored Korean publication "Beyond Inequality in Korea: Seeking for Social Justice"
Clema Publisher (In Korean). ...
Jarron Saint Onge co-authors article "The Association between the Obesogenic Environment and 6-month and 24-month weight change in a Rural Weight Loss Intervention Trial" (Opens in new window)
Authors: Jarron Saint Onge, Mitchell Fagan and Christie Befort. ...
Sociology Alpha Kappa Delta chapter receives funding
Sociology AKD chapter received $1200 in travel funds to help support 6 graduate student members who presented at the (Midwest Sociological Society) MSS: Damilola Adepeju -Fashina, Jennifer Babitzke, Brenden Oliver, Anna Poudel, Derek Wilson, and Darcy Sullivan. (Midwest Sociological Society)...
Joane Nagel presented her research on gender and climate change in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Global Women's Issues brownbag series (Opens in new window)
Kelly H. Chong co-authors "Interrogating the 'White-Leaning' Thesis of White-Asian Multiracials" (Opens in new window)
The study of multiracial people in the United States has typically focused on the experiences of Black–White racially-mixed individuals. In this article, we review and analyze the theoretical and evidence base for the White-leaning characterization of Asian–White multiracials. Historically, Asian Americans have been positioned as a “racial middle” group in...
Study shows discrepancy in 'hookup culture' sexual activity on dates
LAWRENCE — A new study from the University of Kansas shows that in "hookup culture," — in which young people may engage in sex without the traditional courtship practice of dating – there is a discrepancy between what college students are saying and what they are doing when it comes...
Gerald K. McCannon's article was resubmitted to the Journal Family Relations (Opens in new window)
Kevin McCannon published “COVID-19 and the American Family Project,” a project from his Principles of Family Sociology course in which students interviewed family members about COVID, on the American Sociological Association’s peer-reviewed teaching resource website, TRAILS. Kevin used data students collected to explore how families were ‘doing health’ during the...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored article for Population Research and Policy Review (Opens in new window)
Tracey LaPierre and Jennifer Babitzke author an article for Family Health Care Nursing (Opens in new window)
Tracey LaPierre and Jennifer Babitzke are authors for article “Family Demography: Continuity and Change in North American Families.” Pp. 51-92 in Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice, and Research (7th Edition), edited by Melissa Robinson, Deborah Padgett Coehlo and Paul S. Smith. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis. ...