Written in Stone Monthly Newsletter of Purdue Sociology

February 2019

Publications Richards, Elizabeth A., Patricia A. Thomas, Anna K.

Forster, Zachary Hass. 2018. “A Longitudinal Examination of the Impact of Major Life Events on Physical Activity.” Health Education & Behavior.

Reynolds, Jeremy E., Ashleigh Elain McKinzie. 2018. “Riding the Waves of Work and Life: Explaining Long-Term Experiences with Work Hour Mismatches”. Social Forces.

Marshall, Joey and Daniel V. A. Olson (equal co-authorship). 2018. “Is ‘Spiritual but not Reli-gious’ a Replacement for Religion or Just One Step on the Path Between Religion and Non-Religion?” Review of Religious Research.

Headworth, Spencer. 2019. "Getting to Know You: Welfare Fraud Investigation and the Appropria-tion of Social Ties." American Sociological Review.

Suitor, J. Jill, Megan Gilligan, Marissa Rurka, Yifei Hou, and Gulcin Con. 2019. “Social Gerontology Theories: Past, Present, and Future.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Sociology Calendar Events

2/1 Christina Diaz Colloquium – 3pm BRWN 4102

Refreshments following in 1869 Tap Room

2/3-5 Graduate Student Recruitment Event

2/4 Faculty vs Graduate Student Bake-Off

2/11 Brian Uzzi Colloquium – 1pm KRAN Auditorium

Reception following in PMU Anniversary Rm 304

3/1 John Robinson Colloquium -3pm STEW 202

Refreshments following in 1869 Tap Room

3/11- 16 SPRING VACATION – No Classes

Distinguished Professor of Sociology

February Birthdays

Rob Frase 2/5

Soon Seok Park 2/15

Jenean Cox 2/18

Candy Lawson 2/20

Trent Mize 2/21

Rich Hogan 2/25

Dr. J. Jill Suitor was appointed Distinguished

Professor of Sociology on December 7, 2018. The

presentation was made by Provost Jay Akridge.

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Honors

Christie Sennott was invited to join the edito-rial board for the journal Gender & Socie-ty for a 3 year term.

Lindsay Hamm was awarded a $75,000 In-structional Innovation proposal grant. The project title is "Increasing Undergraduates Students' Engagement in Large Lecture Courses through Automated Grading."

Jean Beaman was awarded a CLA Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences grant in the amount of $36,589 for her project, “State of Emergency: Black Lives and State Violence in France.”

Robert Perrucci received news that his book, The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream, will be translated and published into Chinese.

The Winter Recognition Event was held December 6, 2018 at

the Lafayette Brewing Company. We celebrated the past

year and enjoyed food and had a good time.

-photos courtesy Patti Thomas

Kelly Tharp Palmer and Zak Palmer

welcomed their son, Avi Benjamin

Palmer on 1/23/19. He weighed 6

lbs. and 13 oz.

Karen Studebaker has a new

grandson, Jacob Ethan Szabela,

who was born 1/17/19. He

weighed 8 lbs. and 10 oz.