2007-2008

The Loss of Sadness by Allan Horwitz has won the The Association of American Publishers award for best psychology book of 2007.

2006-2007

József Böröcz received the “Knight’s Cross of the Medal of Honor of the Republic of Hungary”—a high state award bestowed by the President of the Republic—for his scholarly achievements, in 2006.  Böröcz was the 2006 occupant of the Immanuel Wallerstein Chair in Global Ethics at the University of Ghent (Belgium). His recent publications include:

Patrick Carr was a featured guest on WHYY's Radio Times on November 2nd, talking about the crime crisis in Philadelphia. He was also featured on NPR's Day to Day in a segment that profiled the Philadelphia Crime emergency and the task facing the new Mayor Michael Nutter on November 7. Carr was featured in a Philadelphia Daily News article that examined the five things the new Mayor of Philadelphia must tackle when he assumes office.

Karen A. Cerulo‘s book Never Saw It Coming was featured in several articles published in The Chicago Tribune, Slate Magazine, The Times of India, and USA Today.  Professor Cerulo also did over twenty 30 and 60 minute radio interviews – some on nationally syndicated shows such as Pat Reuter’s “Viewpoints,” Greg Allan’s “The Right Balance,” Richard Baker’s “Perspectives,” and the “Mancow Show,” and others on public and commercial radio stations, including WFAN/WXRK in New York, WIP, Philadelphia, WNJN in Trenton, KCPW, Salt Lake City, KSFR in Santa Fe , and KPTK in Seattle. In April, Professor Cerulo was the Keynote Speaker in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s “Mind and Brain” series.  Currently, she is a Research Fellow at Princeton where she participates in the “Cognitive and Textual Methods Project.”

Lee Clarke is the Anschutz Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Princeton University.

Allan Horwitz was the co-author of an article that appeared in The Archives of General Psychiatry in April 2007, which was featured in stories by the New York Times, ABC World News, the Today Show, and several newspaper wire services. His 2007 book, The Loss of Sadness, co-authored by Jerome Wakefield, was the subject of an article in the August 27 issue of Time Magazine and was featured in several newspaper wire services.

Ellen Idler was invited to become a member of the Sociological Research Association, at the 2007 meeting of the American Sociological Association.  She is also serving this year as Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America, and chairing the Program Committee for the 2007 meeting in San Francisco.  She is a 2007-08 Fellow of the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis, and is Acting Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Joanna Kempner received the 2006 American Sociological Association Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award

Paul McLean is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis

Patricia Roos was a coauthor of an article in Community, Work, and Family that examined the central role of work and family in debates about the decline or resurgence of community and civic society.  She published a paper on subtle barriers to gender equity in higher education in an edited volume, Theory and Scholarship in Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Work.  Roos presented related work on gender equity at the Inaugural Conference for the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University, and at the Epstein, Becker & Green law firm.  Her work on gender equity in higher education was also mentioned in Inside Higher Ed, a online source for news and opinions about higher education ( http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/14/soc).  She was named a Fellow of the Stanford University's Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality.

Kristen Springerreceived the 2007 American Sociological Association Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation in Medical Sociology Award for her dissertation, "His and Her Marriage Today: The Impact of Wives' Employment on Husbands' Later Mid-Life Health."  

Arlene Stein will have a Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University in the spring of 2008, for her research on how descendents of genocide survivors understand the past. In 2007, Stein organized a special session on “Challenges Facing Sexualities Researchers" at the American Sociological Association meetings that was covered by Inside Higher Ed. In 2006 Stein was given the Simon and Gagnon Award for career contributions to sexuality studies, American Sociological Association.

Helene White and colleagues’ recent article in Alcoholism: Clinical Experimental Research (Vol. 38, pp. 1380-1391) was highlighted by the journal and picked up by several media sources. This paper describes the long-term evaluation of a brief substance use intervention for mandated college students.

Eviatar Zerubavel was promoted to Board of Governers Professor