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An intrastate study-abroad trip visits the foreign land of Kansas (Opens in new window)
Jarron St. Onge receives funding from the National Science Foundation, 2023-2025
Jarron St. Onge is the Co-Principal Investigator (KU is primary institution -- Sociology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology -- with George Mason, North Carolina-Greensboro, University of Puerto Rico) for the National Science Foundation, 2023-2025. (PI: Agusto) “Project INSIGHT: INclusion of challenges from Social Isolation Governed by Human behavior through Transformative...
Taylor Swift and her fans are such a phenomenon, this KU professor is studying them (Opens in new window)
Earlier this month Brian Donovan, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas, made a TikTok to recruit people for his study of Taylor Swift fans. He couldn’t offer them money but promised “we’ll have a good conversation.”...
Can’t ‘Shake It Off’? University of Kansas class will explore Taylor Swift’s popularity (Opens in new window)
Like many “Swifties,” University of Kansas sociology professor Brian Donovan first became a Taylor Swift fan in 2013, upon the release of her album “1989.”...
Andrew Taeho Kim receives Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania (Opens in new window)
Andrew Taeho Kim’s research centers on the various facets of labor market inequality, including how economic returns from the labor market are stratified based on race, gender, and family. He received Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. His work appears in Social Science Research, Population...
SOC 450 "Gender and Society" developed as a Research-Intensive Course
Assistant Teaching Professor Kelly Sharron has developed SOC 450 as a Research-Intensive Course with a mini grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research. Students will be presenting their work in the Undergraduate Research Symposium April 17-21, 2023. ...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored "Is hyper-selectivity a root of Asian American Children's Success?" (Opens in new window)
Asian immigrants' children, even those from lower-backgrounds, tend to acquire higher levels of education than other ethnoracial groups, including White natives. Asian culture is often cited as a conventional explanation. The hyper-selectivity hypothesis challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that Asian American culture is an outcome of the community resources associated...
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 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...
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...
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. ...
ChangHwan Kim co-authored Korean publication "Beyond Inequality in Korea: Seeking for Social Justice"
Clema Publisher (In Korean). ...
Elise Neumann receives teaching position
Elise Neumann receives a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Winston-Salem. ...
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...
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. ...