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Career Change for Isis Wilson

Sociology alumna, Isis Wilson, will be starting a new position with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

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Congratulations to Markets and Culture Alumna Kelly Sayres

MKCL Alumni Update: Kelly Sayres Kelly Sayres will be pursuing a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in Technology, Innovation, and Education starting Fall 2016. Kelly graduated in 2012 and has been teaching at an impoverished elementary school in rural Central Texas.

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Sociology alumna awarded Dedman Law Distinguished Alumni

[youtube]https://youtu.be/QgpPM7IscyY[/youtube] In early February, A. Shonn Evans Brown was honored as one of five Dedman Law Distinguished Alumni of 2016. She gives back regularly to SMU by meeting with current sociology undergraduate students as well as serving as a mentor to Dedman law school students. We are honored to have her in our community of […]

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Decline in Democratic Oversight in City Budgets, New Research by L. Owen Kirkpatrick

While the wave of urban fiscal distress following the Great Recession resembles local fiscal crises of the past, two factors distinguish the current period. First, city budgets are thoroughly financialized—dominated by speculative and volatile debt arrangements—such that local crisis is now intertwined with financial market instability. Second, local fiscal politics are increasingly removed from democratic […]

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Sociology Students Meet the Steampunk Poet

Students enrolled in Dr. Nancy Campbell’s SOCI 4335: Social Movements and Collective Behavior course had the opportunity to meet Steve Sanders, a Steampunk poet. Mr. Sanders provided the class with a rich history and description of the Steampunk community (Steampunk involves 19th Century dress and literature with a Sci-Fi twist) and shared several of his original poems

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Sociology Alumni Update: Courtney Cross

Sociology alumni Courtney Cross has recently begun a new position as the Community Impact Coordinator for Homeless Initiatives at the United Way of Denton County. Congratulations Courtney! READ MORE

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Brita Andercheck’s teaching assignment top 10 resource among Sociologists

Originally Posted: February 1, 2016 Sociology visiting professor Brita Andercheck‘s teaching resource, Education and Conflict Perspective: A College Admissions Committee Activity is among the top 10 most downloaded teaching resources of 2015. The resource can be found in the TRAILS database on the American Sociological Association (ASA) website.

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NYU Press Announces Dr. Anne Lincoln’s new book

NYU PRESS Originally Posted: January 28, 2016 Failing Families, Failing Science Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science Work life in academia might sound like a dream: summers off, year-long sabbaticals, the opportunity to switch between classroom teaching and research. Yet, when it comes to the sciences, life at the top U.S. research universities is hardly idyllic. […]

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Dedman College alumnus Brooks Thostenson`09 and Kyle Hawari, the buddies behind the snack bars packed with Taos Mountain energy and spirit

New Mexico Magazine Originally Posted: January Issue By JIM O’DONNELL | Photography by MINESH BACRANIA IN THE WINTER of 2010, more than 200 inches of snow dumped on Taos Ski Valley, and Kyle Hawari and Brooks Thostenson, twentysomething buddies from Texas, didn’t waste a flake: They rocked an impressive 90 days on the slopes that […]

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Sheri Kunovich, Sociology, Kids, Christmas and the Materialism Conundrum

DFW Child Originally Posted: December 2015 Sharon Alderton, 34, avoids her kids’ playroom. That’s because it’s already packed with toys for her two young boys — many that they don’t play with much — and with the holidays and one son’s Christmas Eve birthday quickly approaching, the Prosper mom knows the stuff is just going […]