News & Events
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STUDENTS!
Nicole Powell ('09) participated in the American Sociological Association's 2009 Undergraduate Honors Program in San Francisco in August. As part of the Honors Program, she presented her award-winning paper, "“Little Gay Gandhi’s: Providing a Safe Space and Empowering Sexual Minorities.”
Tristine Baccam ('09) had her paper, "'That Synergy of People': The Significance of Collective Identity and Framing in a Gay-Straight Coalition" accepted for publication in the undergraduate sociology journal, Sociological Insight.
Eryn Snyder ('09) was selected as the 2009 female Pirate Anchor Award winner.
Nicole Powell ('09) won Third Place in the 2009 Undergraduate Paper Competition at Alpha Kappa Delta (national sociolology honors society)
Nicole Powell ('09) was awarded the 2009 Odum Award for Best Undergraduate Paper at the Southern Sociological Society.
Nicole Powell ('09) received the 2009 Frank E. Luksa award in sociology.
Noah Bickford ('09) received the 2009 Gwen Kennedy Neville Award in anthropology.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FACULTY!
Dr. Melissa Johnson won the 2009 Mundy Award for exemplary University service.
Dr. Maria Lowe has a new 2009 publication titled "Sowing the Seeds of Discontent: Tougaloo College's Social Science Forums as a Prefigurative Movement Free Space, 1952-1964," The Journal of Black Studies. 39: 865-887.
Dr. Maria Lowe won the 2009 SU Teaching Award.
At the 2009 meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, Dr. Edward L. Kain was selected as the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. Read more about the award here.
Dr. Melissa Johnson (with Emily Niemeyer in Chemisty) published an article based on their collaborative research project in Matamoros. The June 2008 article is titled "Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," Human Ecology, 36:371-382.
Dr. Edward L. Kain has two pieces published in the 2008 book Sociology Through Active Learning. One is titled "An Introduction to an Important Source for Basic Quantitative Sociological Data" and the other is "Global Stratification."
The Austin American-Statesman ran an op-ed piece on March 7, 2008 written by Dr. Dan Hilliard and two of his students. Read the piece online here.
Dr. Maria Lowe has a new 2008 publication titled “An Unseen Hand: The Role of Sociology Professor Ernst Borinski in Mississippi’s Struggle for Racial Integration in the 1950s and 1960s.” Leadership 4:27-47.
