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In Memoriam: Raymond W. Mack, Emeritus
 IPR's Founding Director Raymond Mack Dies at 84
Sociologist and former Northwestern Provost Raymond "Ray" Mack died on August 25, 2011 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Chicago Tribune story
HONORS & AWARDS
Congratulations to student Alok Nadig for winning a Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant for his project "Legal Implications of Gendered Conceptions of Homosexuality in India in the Past Ten Years" (Fall 2011).
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Congratulations to the following Sociology graduate students on winning this year’s Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011:
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer
Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants
Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper
Jaimie Morse
Outstanding published or presented
Robert Vargas
This recognition is a symbol of the overall excellence they have shown. We are proud of the contributions they have made to the department, as well as, to the field of sociology.
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Bruce Carruthers,
has been named to a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair (2011).
Georgi Derlugian has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, an honorary doctorate, from the University of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, 2011. The university is located in one of Georgi's fieldsites: the man who was central to his book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer
in the Caucasus, for instance, was a native of Kabardino-Balkaria.
James Mahoney, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, has won four major awards at the American Sociological Association and American Political Science Association 2011 Conference for his book Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective.
Steve Epstein have been elected Chair of the
Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, for a two-year term to commence in 2013.
Nicola Beisel, Georgi Derluguian, Steven Epstein, and Karrie Snyder have been selected by students for the 2011 Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.
Erin McDonnell has won the 2011 Art Stinchcombe Dissertation Prize in Organization Studies from the Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern group.
Robert Vargas (PhD candidate) won the 2011 Lindesmith Graduate Student Paper Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for his paper "Locking Up Social Order: Incarceration, Organizational Leadership, and Street Corner Violence."
The following sociology students have each been awarded an Ungraduate Research Grant for their 2011 summer projects.
- Taylor Barrett, “Female Comedians: Negotiating the Gender Bias in Improvisational Comedy”
- Samuel Lozoff,
“Visualized Identity of Brazilian Nikkeijin in a Multiethnic Japan”
- Christy Stallknecht,
“Dance Invaders in Our Midst!: Flash Mob Performances in Chicago”
Professor Gary Fine, won the association's 2011 Mentor Excellence Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism.
Lisa-Jo van den Scott (PhD candidate) won the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism's 2011 Herbert Blumer Award for her paper, "The Emergence of Taboos: Inuit Shamanism from the Light into the Shadows."
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