Graduate Awards - 2007

Daniel Pasciuiti was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Dean's Teaching Fellowship to teach an undergraduate course entitled, “The City in Time and Space: Historical Sociology of the Urban World.”  The course will be offered as part of the sociology course offerings in Fall 2008.

Mindelyn Buford, II was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies (CAS) Prize Teaching Fellowship to teach an undergraduate course entitled "Sociology of Contemporary African and Caribbean Migration."  The course will be offered as part of the CAS and sociology course offerings in Spring 2008.  Mindelyn was also awarded the Johns Hopkins Unviersity Dean's Teaching Fellowship to teach, "The Power Elite: Sociology of Privilege."  Ms. Buford was also awarded the J. Brien Key Fellowship to support dissertation research-related expenses.

Christian Villenas was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Dean's Teaching Fellowship to teach an undergraduate course entitled the "Sociology of Disability." The course will be offered as part of the sociology course offerings in Fall 2007.

2006

Jake Lowinger was awarded a Dissertation Research grant by the National Science Foundation for his project: "A Sociological Analysis of Labor Unrest, Natural Dissolution and Civil War," under the direction of Giovanni Arrighi (2006-2007).  Jake also received a Fulbright Fellowship and will spend time at the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Philosopy, University of Zagreb doing research on economic restructuring and the pro-Yugoslav labor movements in the 1980s.

Lu Zhang was awarded a Dissertation Research grant by the National Science Foundation for her project: “Globalization, Market Reform, and the Dynamics of Labor Unrest in the Automobile Industry,” under the direction of Beverly Silver (2006-2007).  Ms. Zhang was also awarded a Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

Astra Bonini was awarded a travel grant from the American Sociological
Association to attend the International Sociological Association's World
Congress in Durban, South Africa (July 2006), where she presented a paper
entitled, "Cross-National Variation in Subjective Well-Being: Effects of National Wealth, Human Development, and Environmental Conditions."

Mindelyn Buford, II was awarded the Johns Hopkins Center for Africana Studies Research Fellowship (Summer 2006) for her project: "A Multi-Sited Ethnography of African Immigrants in the United States."

Kevan Harris was awarded the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Studies Research Fellowship (Summer 2006) for his project: "Unintended Consequences and Social Change: The Post-Revolutionary Trajectory of Iranian Student Movements."

Lakshmi Jayaram was awarded the Johns Hopkins Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Research Fellowship (Summer 2006).

Sahan Savas Karatasli was awarded the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global
Studies Research Fellowship (Summer 2006) for his project:
"Anti-Imperialism and State Ideology: Waves of Anti-Imperialist Student
Activism in Turkey"