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ASA affirms its commitment to the critical value of academic speech rights, as articulated in “Communicating Against Difference: Free and Responsible Speech.” We further condemn efforts intended to threaten, harass, & silence those exercising their rights.
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Gözde Güran
@Harvard
has won the 2021 Dissertation Award for “Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria,” completed
@Princeton
.
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We are pleased to announce the results of the 2021 ASA elections. Join us in congratulating 2022-2023 President Prudence Carter
@prudencelcarter
,
@UCBerkeley
, and Vice President Mignon Moore
@mignon_moore
,
@BarnardCollege
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ASA releases statement with 17 other scholarly organizations. The ASA provides a brief summary of the current research and notes that Student Evaluations Teaching systematically disadvantage faculty from marginalized groups.
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ASA is pleased to announce Aldon Morris, Northwestern University, has been elected the 112th President of the American Sociological Association.
#ASAelection
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Sociologist
@just_shelter
tells us what we may not want to hear: millions can't work their way out of poverty.
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.
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ASA is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 ASA election. Join us in congratulating 2022 President Cecilia Menjívar
@menjivar_ceci
, UCLA, and Vice President Nina Bandelj
@BandeljNina
,
@UCIsociology
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Viviana A. Zelizer
@VivianaZelizer
receives the 2023 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology. This award recognizes work that has facilitated or served as a model for the work of others;
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We are pleased to announce that Adia Harvey Wingfield
@AdiaHWingfield
@WUSTL
has been elected the 2024-2025 ASA President, and Allison J. Pugh
@allison_pugh
@UVA
has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: .
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ASA supports sociologists who participate in
#ScholarStrike
. This effort to “make a collective stand against police violence (particularly against communities of color) in the United States” aligns with our organizational values...
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ASA condemns unfounded accusations of plagiarism against sociologist Christina Cross and expresses concern about political actors misrepresenting the scientific process. Read our statement:
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When the
@nytimes
profiles a sociologist, you pay attention.
She is a sociologist, poet, Twitter maven, Chicago cultural celebrity and newly minted Marvel Comics writer. But don’t ask Eve Ewing about her superpowers.
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ICYMI, John Roberts called sociology "
#gobbledygook
" last week. The ASA has offered to "enhance his education."
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Congratulations,
@tressiemcphd
and
@ForrestDStuart
! This is some very exciting news--two sociologists.
It certainly is a moment to celebrate. 🎉🎊
In the midst of a difficult year, a moment to celebrate. Meet the 2020 MacArthur Fellows, 21 remarkably creative and inspiring individuals.
#MacFellow
📈📱⚙️🧼🧬🧠🎭🚰🩺🖥️✍️🖼️🦠🧫⚖️🏠📜📖💭📚🗣️🎵🎶🔬🧲🧪⚗️🔍🎥📕
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Tonight would usually be a time during
#ASA2020
that we would honor the new cohort of MFP fellows. Please do so virtually. Congratulations, Shannon Malone Gonzalez,
@sofia_locklear
,
@its_Serrano
,
@CatyTab
,
@EdlinVeras
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Congrats to former ASA Pres. & MFP Fellow Patricia Hill Collins
@socyumd
, who received the 2023 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture
@berggruenInst
, a $1-million award for her pivotal contributions to understanding intersectionality & social justice.
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Laura Garbes
@LauraGarbes
receives the 2023 Dissertation Award for Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in the American Public Radio Industry,” completed at
@BrownUniversity
.
#ASA2023
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We welcome Cecilia Menjívar
@menjivar_ceci
& Nina Bandelj
@BandeljNina
@UCIsociology
who have taken on the roles as 2021-22 president and vice president of ASA.
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Bernice A. Pescosolido
@pescosol
& Rashawn Ray
@SociologistRay
receive the 2021 Public Understanding of Sociology Award for making exemplary contributions to advance public understanding of sociology, sociological research, & scholarship among general public.
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"...academia doesn't reward faculty for being the kinds of teachers and mentors who help their students develop key knowledge and skills. Meanwhile, the mentors who do make that time for students are disproportionately scholars from groups historically marginalized in academia"
@JessicaCalarco
discusses her new book on navigating graduate school
@ASAnews
@PrincetonUPress
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A group of PIs on large national datasets has released this message . ASA supports the message and Christina Cross.
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2023 ASA President Prudence Carter
@prudencelcarter
passing the gavel to 2024 ASA President Joya Misra
@JoyaMisra
at
#ASA2023
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ASA is pleased to announce that Joya Misra
@JoyaMisra
@UMassAmherst
and Jennifer A. Reich
@JenniferReich1
@CUDenver
have been elected 2023-24 ASA President and Vice President. Read the election results here: .
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You know that U.S. Women’s World Cup Championship soccer team? Well 4 of them are sociology majors.
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ASA is pleased to announce that
@johndiamondphd
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) and
@NEqualityMatrix
(Johns Hopkins University) are the next editors of Sociology of Education for 2022-2024.
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ASA extends heartfelt congratulations to Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd
, 2020 recipient of the Public Understanding of Sociology Award who "was selected for her impressive and inspiring commitment to...creatively using sociology for the public good"
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco has been cancelled. For more information, read the letter from the ASA Executive Director
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ASA webinar
What's Settler Colonialism and Why Should You Teach About It in Intro to Soc?, November 5, 3 pm Eastern/12 pm Pacific
Presenters: Michelle Jacob,
@sofia_locklear
,
@native4data
, and Yvonne Sherwood.
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ASA is committed to fostering engaged and productive intellectual communities in graduate programs. We urge graduate programs to reconsider their GRE use in decisions about admissions and graduate student funding. Read the statement.
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Sociology's Greatest Hits of 2017! Find out which sociology articles were most downloaded last year - some old, some new, all interesting.
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Christopher Uggen
@chrisuggen
& Douglas Hartmann
@hartm021
receive the 2023 Public Understanding of Sociology Award for making exemplary contributions to advance public understanding of sociology, sociological research, & scholarship among the general public.
#ASA2023
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Sociologist
@ruha9
on how discrimination is embedded in technology – and how we go about building a fairer world.
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"Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing 'We Shall Overcome'" -Aldon Morris, 2021 ASA President
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Adia Harvey Wingfield
@AdiaHWingfield
receives the 2022 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, given to an individual or individuals for their work in the intellectual traditions of Oliver Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E. Franklin Frazier.
#ASA2022
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Left-leaning protesters are significantly more likely to be arrested than right-leaning ones, according to a 2020 study from Lesley Wood, an associate professor of sociology at York University in Toronto.
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Congratulations! James M. Thomas (JT)
@Insurgent_Prof
and Brian Foster
@BBrianFoster
of the University Mississippi are the new co-editors of the SREM journal, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
@SREJournal
.
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ASA congratulates the recipients of the 2022–2023 (Cohort 49) of the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP). These talented PhD candidates were chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants to receive support while writing their dissertations.
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Congratulations to sociologist Rebecca Sandefur on winning a 2018 MacArthur "genius" grant.
#MacFellow
Rebecca Sandefur of
@Illinois_Alma
and
@ABFResearch
is promoting a new approach to increasing access to civil justice for low-income communities:
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ICYMI Sociologist Alondra Nelson has been appointed deputy director for science and society at the Office of Science Technology and Policy
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"Grace Kao may be the first Asian American woman to hold tenure in sociology departments at two Ivy League universities: the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale, where she became the first woman of color to hold tenure in the Sociology Department.
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Check out ASA's curated collection of videos. The videos cover topics from racism to poverty, from religion to immigration, and from health care to criminal justice. They are great for teaching, media, and policy.
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Hey
#soctwitter
, the 2020 ASA Annual Meeting submission deadline is January 29, a few weeks later than in the past. Members told us this was a small change that would make a big difference.
#ASAislistening
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Renée C. Fox, Founding Figure of Medical Sociology, Dies at 92. She is credited with helping to create the field of bioethics and applying the methods of sociology to medical care.
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
@watkinshayes
receives the 2021 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality. The award is given to the single best book published in the three preceding calendar years.
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Congratulations to MFP Fellows (Cohort 47): Uriel Serrano
@its_Serrano
received
@FordFoundation
grant;
@sofia_locklear
accepted a tenure track position at Western University; Shannon Malone Gonzalez accepted a tenure track position at UNC Chapel Hill
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2021-2022 ASA President Cecilia Menjívar
@menjivar_ceci
@ucla
passes the gavel to 2022-2023 ASA President Prudence Carter
@prudencelcarter
@BrownSociology
at
#ASA2022
.
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ASA has received a grant from NSF to manage Sociology Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the next 4 years. 25 awards up to $16,000 annually. Deadline 11/1.
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Ricarda Hammer
@ricarda_hammer
receives the 2022 Dissertation Award for “Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule Across the Black Atlantic,” completed at
@BrownUniversity
.
#ASA2022
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Due to COVID-19, the 2021 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago has been cancelled. We are pleased to offer a virtual 2021 ASA Annual Meeting instead.
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The deadline for submissions to the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting is now less than one month away. The deadline is February 3 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. Submit now!
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Upcoming ASA Member Webinar
Qualitative and Quarantined: Techniques and Ethics of Online Interview Research, Sept 22, 1 pm EST
Presenters: Erin Cech, Brooke Dinsmore, Angela Jones, and Allison Pugh.
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ASA is pleased to announce that Seth Abrutyn
@seth_abrutyn
and Amin Ghaziani
@Amin_Ghaziani
, University of British Columbia
@UBCSociology
, are the next editors of Contexts magazine
@contextsmag
. Their term officially starts January 1, 2023.
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The top 50 articles (out of 29663 papers) published in 2019 in the category ‘Sociology’ with their respective Altmetric Attention Scores.
#3
is 2019's "The Sociology of Gaslighting" by Paige L. Sweet
@asr_journal
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"Mama was right. Some 35-plus years later, McAllister’s baby girl is a Twitter-quipping public intellectual moonlighting as a celebrity podcast host between her day jobs as a writer and sociologist."
@tressiemcphd
#PROFILE
: Sociologist,
@VCU
professor and author Tressie McMillan Cottom (
@tressiemcphd
) thinks thick, talks fast and challenges the status quo:
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According to [sociologist Frank] Dobbin, the best way to address stereotyping and change biased thinking long-term is to make the workforce as diverse as possible on every level.
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“This is why I love sociology,” McDonald mused. “I never would have imagined being on a Cardi B panel.”
@ABSociologists
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Congratulations to Patricia Hill Collins, winner of ASA's W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
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Ready for some exciting news before you start your weekend? Alondra Nelson (
@sociallifeofdna
) will serve as the OSTP Deputy Director for Science and Society.
@ssrc_org
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Du Bois' pioneering team of black sociologists created data visualizations that explained institutionalized racism to the world via
@SmithsonianMag
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And it’s a wrap for
#ASA2022
Annual Meeting. Thank you for attending!
#ASA2023
is based on ASA President Prudence Carter’s
@prudencelcarter
theme “The Educative Power of Sociology.”
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Raka Ray
@UCBerkeley
receives the 2023 Jessie Bernard Award, which recognizes scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society & honors those who have demonstrated significant cumulative work.
#ASA2023
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Tune into
@60Minutes
on Sunday to hear David Williams
@D_R_Williams1
discuss racism and health.
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Reminder
#asa19
: According to TripAdvisor, 31% of guests don't tip hotel housekeepers at all, despite their annual income estimating around a low $21,800 a year. By tipping correctly, you show appreciation for housekeeping work.
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Read "Contexts Welcomes Its Newest Editors, Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas"
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ASA President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Responds to Chief Justice John Roberts about
#sociologicalgobbledygook
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ASA is deeply concerned and outraged about the rise of attacks and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans. Read the statement condemning anti-Asian racism: .
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The findings reveal that white
#admissions
counselors are more responsive to black students who present as deracialized and racially apolitical than they are to those who evince a commitment to antiracism and racial justice.
#highered
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"The Mark of a Criminal Record" received the ASA Dissertation award. So very saddened by this news.
We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of
@devah_pager
this past weekend. She made many important contributions to sociology, was a wonderful colleague and friend, and will be greatly missed. Find her piece in
@contextsmag
from 2003 here:
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Using longitudinal data from the Netherlands, the results
@asr_journal
study indicate that children raised by same-sex parents from birth perform better than children raised by different-sex parents in both primary and secondary education.
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We are pleased to announce that David Cort, Laurel Smith-Doerr, & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
@DonTD_tweets
@UMassAmherst
will be the next editors of American Sociological Review
@ASR_Journal
starting January 1, 2024.
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Douglas Hartmann
@hartm021
and Christopher Uggen
@chrisuggen
are the recipients of the 2023 Public Understanding of Sociology Award for making exemplary contributions to advance public understanding of sociology, sociological research, & scholarship among the general public.
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👏👏👏
2017 Dissertation Ford Fellow Christina Cross' (
@christinajcross
) dissertation has been awarded the
@ASAnews
Dissertation Award and the Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
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ASA submitted a comment to the Florida Board of Governors objecting to the removal of sociology from the state’s general education core course options. Read here:
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Article by Elijah Anderson, last night's recipient of the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award
@ElijaAnderson
#ASA18
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Laura Garbes
@LauraGarbes
is the recipient of the 2023 Dissertation Award for “Racialized Airwaves: Tracing the Sonic Color Line in the American Public Radio Industry,” completed at
@BrownUniversity
.
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"The history of sociology demonstrates that the discipline can be a rigorous science while simultaneously acting as a catalyst for social change." Aldon Morris, 2021 ASA Annual Meeting theme
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Sociologists Junia Howell and James R. Elliott have published multiple studies that find a pattern in who wins and who loses after floods and other
#disasters
: Rich people get richer after a storm, and poor people get poorer.
Research by sociologists, climate scientists, urban planners, & economists show that disasters & the federal aid to recover disproportionately benefit whiter, wealthier neighborhoods.
@ASAnews
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ASA is excited to announce the latest cohort of MFP Fellows (2021-2022): Asia Bento; Evelyn Pruneda
@pruneda_evelyn
; Alejandro Zermeño; Maretta McDonald
@DrMcinthemaking
; and Philip Pettis
Welcome Cohort 48!
#asamfp
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Findings by sociologist Anna Haskins
@AnnaRHaskins
show the negative effects a father’s incarceration has on his children’s educational outcomes. Her research looks at the interconnection of 3 social institutions: criminal justice, education, and families
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Congratulations to sociologists Kathryn Edin, Princeton University, Kathleen M. Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Sara McLanahan, Princeton University
Congratulations to the newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Today we are honored to welcome 214 scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators into the Academy.
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Good to hear a sociologist's take on
@NPR
@JessicaCalarco
: "Privileged parents are defining their worth as parents by the kind of schools their kids get into and go to" (BTW Disappointed not to hear the toddler)
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Congratulations,
@AdiaHWingfield
!
Congratulations to
@wustlsoc
professor Adia Harvey Wingfield, who was recently named associate dean for faculty development in Arts & Sciences!
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President-elect Prudence L. Carter
@prudencelcarter
has chosen “The Educative Power of Sociology” as the theme for the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting. Details:
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ASA is pleased to announce Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California, has been elected as the next Vice President of the American Sociological Association.
#ASAelection
@rhacel
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"Do Sociology Courses Make More Empathetic Students?"
@Teaching_Soc
Researchers compare empathy change between students in intro sociology classes to students not enrolled in sociology and test which student and instructor variables predict empathy change
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Mary Romero
@ASU
is the recipient of the 2022 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, which honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to sociology & whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to advancement of discipline.
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