The Catholic University of America

Fall 2012 Sociology News and Events

Department Brown Bags

 

February 21. Dr. Orlando Tizon "Torture and Human Rights"

April 2. Dr. Paul Sullins "Catholic Social Thought and Catholic Sociology"

 

Graduate Student/Faculty Coffee & Tea Socials (5:00-6:30 pm)

February 21

April 2

 

Recent Research

Sandra Hanson
The American Dream in the 21st Century (Temple University Press, 2011), edited with John White, and Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls in Science Education (Temple University Press, 2009). Professor Hanson is currently working on her forthcoming book investigating the attitudes and experiences of Latinos and their quest for the American Dream.
 
Paul Sullins
Catholic Social Thought: American Reflections on the Compendium. With Anthony Blasi, eds. (Lexington Press:  October, 2008) and "American Catholics and Same Sex Marriages"  Catholic Social Science Review 15 (2010): 97-123. "The Meaning and Means of a Catholic Intellectual Culture"  Studies in Catholic Higher Education, Spring 2010.
Enrique S. Pumar
Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis (Sage, 2009) edited with Howard Lune and Ross Koppel and Hispanic Migration and Urban Development. ( Emerald Publishers, October 2012). “Educational Attainment in a High Performing School District: The Relative Significance of Class.” with Adam Sitsis. Theory in Action. 5. 3. July 2012.  "The Plural of Anecdote is not Data:  Teaching Law Students Basic Survey Methodology to Improve Access to Justice in Unemployment Insurance Appeals." with Faith Mullen. UDC Law, Fall 2012.
 
Judith Perez-Caro

"Residential Patterns and an Overview of Segregation and Discrimination in the Greater Washington DC Metropolitan" Region in Enrique S. Pumar ed. Hispanic Migration and Urban Development. London. Emerald Publishing. 2012.

Book Reviews: Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America by Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory (Routledge, 2010). Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER).

Research Awards

Professors Enrique S. Pumar, Shavaun Walls, and Lynn M. Mayer were awarded Catholic Community Partnership for Better Early Childhood Development Grant from the Better Way Foundation.

Professor James Loewen is the 2012 recipient of the ASA’s Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award. His life and work embody the spirit and intellect of the pioneering African American scholar-activists for whom the Award is named. Each year the Award recognizes outstanding achievement in research, teaching, and service to community, with a particular focus on scholars who work in the areas of human rights and social justice. It is reserved for those whose social activism, community efforts, and contributions to the building and development of institutions and programs are exceptionally noteworthy, and special consideration is given to those whose work emphasizes African American or similarly disadvantaged racial/ethnic populations that have experienced historical racial discrimination. The Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award is one of the highest honors the ASA bestows upon its members.

Professor Paul Sullins traveled to Accra to direct the Ghana Summer Institute of Catholic Social Thought last July 9-13. The Ghana program comprised an intensive one-week program faithful to magisterial teaching with a pedagogy moving from principle to application.

Professor Sandra Hanson was awarded her second Fulbright.  The award involves an exchange with Leipzig University in the Spring of 2012.  

Professor Enrique S. Pumar was awarded a grant from the Smithsonian Latino Center to Coordinate Phase 2 of the Latino DC History Project.  The Latino DC History Project documents the footprint of the Latino population in the Washington Metropolitan region.

Professor Daniel Martinez is the Principle Investigator, Data Manager and Chief Data Analyst of the Migrant Border Crossing Study founded by the Ford Foundation Mexico.  This project will survey over 1,200 migrants in multiple cities along the Southwestern border to study the intersections between unauthorized migration and cartel violence and the impact of enforcement efforts on families.

 

Conferences and Lecture Series

Dr. Gary LaFree, University of Maryland, "Countering Myths about Terrorism." December 3, 2012.

The Hispanic Presence in the Washington Metropolitan Region Conference. April 19, 2010.

First Annual Che-Fu Lee Lecture Series: The Department of Sociology hosted the First Annual Che-Fu Lee Lecture Series by Dr. Melvin Kohn, Professor of Sociology at John Hopkins University, "Class, Stratification, and Personality Under Conditions of Apparent Social Stability and of Radical Social Change: A Comparison of the United States, Japan, Poland and Ukraine." March 23, 2010.

 

 

Summer Institute of Catholic Social Thought

The Catholic University of America and the Society of Catholic Social Scientists (SCSS) present the Fifth Annual Summer Institute of Catholic Social Thought to be held June 4 through 8 at CUA.
 
The aim of the Summer Catholic Social Thought (CST) Institute is to provide Catholic faculty and graduate students in the social sciences and related disciplines a basic grounding and application of Catholic social thought in order to help them incorporate the academic social sciences into a Catholic worldview.
The Institute is conducted by the Society of Catholic Social Scientists (SCSS) and The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education of the Cardinal Newman Society. This year's Summer Institute is directed by the Rev. Dr. Paul Sullins, Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America, and editor of Catholic Social Thought: American Responses to the Compendium (Rowman and Littlefield 2008).
 
For more information about the Summer Institute, contact Rev. Dr. Paul Sullins, sullins(at)cua.edu