Richard Pitt has been elected to a three year term (2007-2010) on the Executive Board of the American Men’s Studies Association, the national organization for the study of men and masculinities.

Richard Lloyd has been awarded a 2007 Chancellor's Award in recognition of his book Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City.

Jennifer C. Lena was quoted in the July 9, 2007 issue of Billboard Magazine on the lack of commercial, feminist rappers in contemporary music.

Richard Pitt visited the Indiana University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Scholar. While there, he lectured on images of bisexuality in the media, spoke as a panelist in a discussion on “the intersection of race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, and violence,” and guest lectured in sociology of masculinity and sociology of gender courses.

Jennifer Lena gave a recent talk at the Nashville Public Library--part of the "Thinking Outside of the (Lunch) Box" Series, co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the Nashville Public Library. Click here to see a video of her talk.

Katharine Donato is featured in an article in the Vanderbilt Register.

Shaul Kelner and his Tourism, Culture & Place class were featured in an article in The Tennessean on 3/15/07. Go to: The Tennessean.

Richard Pitt is quoted in the January 2007 issue of Details Magazine in a feature article titled “Meet The New Bachelor” where he discussed the impact of divorce on the 21st century American bachelor.

Laura Carpenter  is featured in an article in the Vanderbilt Register. They discuss what she wrote in the recently published Journal of Aging Studies. 

Richard Lloyd has been appointed to the Editorial Board of City and Community.

Richard Pitt was quoted in the July 23, 2006 issue of The Tennessean in an article on family reunions.

Laura Carpenter 's newly published book entitled Virginity Lost gets reviewed. Click here to read review.

Dan Cornfield visited Cardiff University as a Montague Burton Fellow. He conducted a faculty seminar on historical and contemporary realignments of the U.S. labor movement and a doctoral seminar on scholarly peer review and publishing, March 2006.

Richard Lloyd has been named co-editor (with Joshua Gamson) of the culture reviews section of Contexts (the ASA journal).

Shaul Kelner received a 2006 CAS Venture Fund Grant for Creativity in Curricular and Pedagogical Approaches. With it, he plans to develop a field-trip based course that uses tours of the Nashville area to teach the Sociology of Tourism.

Richard Lloyd's book, Neo Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City, appeared in November, 2005. For a sampling of reviews, go to Salon; In These Times; Nashville Scene; Chicago Reader; Chicago Journal, Eye Weekly, and City Magazine. There are podcasts of Richard's interviews with Carol Coletta on "Smart City," and with Steve Edwards on Chicago Public Radio's "Eight Forty-Eight." This book has also been selected as one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books for 2006. The full list can be viewed here.

Larry Isaac has been elected President-Elect of the Southern Sociological Society; he will be President-elect for 2006-2007 and then President in 2007-2008.

Jennifer Lena is quoted during an interview giving her perspective on rap music in another newspaper article in the Richmond Times Dispatch after a high school student was brutally and fatally stabbed at a hotel dance party in January, 2006. Afterwards, many have implicated that rap music had influenced the murder.

Jennifer Lena is cited in The New York Times in the "Education Life" column in January, 2006, where the author presents many current "Pop Ph.D.'s" and their dissertation research and title.

Jennifer Lena gave a lecture at the University of Georgia in December entitled "Voyeurism, Authenticity and the Gaze: Rap Music Videos as Cultural Tourism." Read article in their student newspaper, Red and Black, which "wraps" it up.

Richard Peterson, professor emeritus, has been attributed with the most cited piece from Annual Reviews in econmics and business regarding his research. Click here for more information.

Sydney Halpern was awarded the Viseltear Prize by the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association for her 2004 book Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research. The book explores the formal and informal rules governing medical research before and after federal regulations on human research testing were implemented in the 1960s. The association awards the prize annually for the outstanding book or other scholarly contribution to the history of public health in America.

Vanderbilt sociology professors Bruce Barry, Sydney Halpern, Larry Isaac, and Ronnie Steinberg are members of the international editorial board of the scholarly quarterly Work and Occupations. The journal is edited by Vanderbilt sociology professor Dan Cornfield.

Gary Jensen received the Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Award in Spring 2005. This award was created to honor Chancellor Wyatt upon his retirement in 2000. This award is given each year and is intended to recognize accomplishments that span multiple academic disciplines. 

Holly McCammon received a National Science Foundation Grant for 2004-2006 for her project entitled, "Dismantling the Patriarchal State:  Women's Rights Activism, 19th-Century Married Women's Property Acts, and 20th-Century Jury Rights Laws."

Tony Brown has received a two-year grant (2003-2005) from the National Institute of Health to study "Communication Patterns In Medical Encounters: Investigating Quality of Care and Health Disparities."

Metropolitan Government of Nashville recently released the final report of the 2002-03 Immigrant Community Assessment, a needs assessment of African, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and refugees in Nashville and policy recommendations for addressing these needs. The Assessment was conducted by Dan Cornfield, several Vanderbilt sociology faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates, and colleagues at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Law School, Peabody College, Medical School, Meharry Medical College, and Tennessee State University. Click here for the press release and click here for a complete pdf copy of the final report of the Immigrant Community Assessment.

Holly McCammon received an American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2003-2004. The title of her research project is "Women's Rights Activism and the Dismantling of the Patriarchal State."

Walter R. Gove was chosen by the Medical Section of the American Sociological Association to receive the 2003 Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Sociology.