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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
at Michigan State University
Riva Denny New Post-Doc Position
July 17, 2019
Riva Denny (PhD, 2018,) has accepted a new post-doctoral position at the University of Michigan! Starting in the Fall, She will begin her work with the School for Environment and Sustainability.
PhD Student Anna Wilcoxson Article Published
July 17, 2019
PhD student Anna Wilcoxson’s article, “Dignity Strategies in a Neoliberal Workfare Kitchen Training Program,” was published in the Wiley Online Library. The article uses ethnographic research to better understand dynamics and expectations within welfare-to-work training programs.
July 16, 2019
Dr. Shikha Bista (2018 Sociology PhD) has been named a Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston, TX. She will join the MDACC Cancer Prevention Research Training Program (CPRTP) in fall 2019. During her two-year postdoctoral fellowship, she will work closely with prominent scholars, Dr. Surendra Shastri and Dr. Sanjay Shete, in the Department of Health Disparities Research.
PhD Student Kayleigh Ward Receives Prestigious Fulbright Grant
MSU Sociology Doctoral Student Kayleigh Ward has received a Fulbright Japan Grant to support completion of her dissertation fieldwork in Japan during the 2019-2020 academic year. She successfully defended her dissertation proposal on May 6th, and will spend much of this summer preparing for her funded fieldwork.
Professor Stef Shuster Published in Social Science & Medicine
On March 3, Social Science & Medicine published Stef Shuster's article titled "Performing Informed Consent in Transgender Medicine."
