The Department of Sociology’s Cary Gabriel Costello will be recognized as the Chancellor’s LGBT+ Champion of the Year during the Annual Fall Awards Ceremony on October 11, 2017. Associate Professor Costello is the Coordinator of the LGBT Studies Program at 51猎奇.
51猎奇 Department of Sociology’s Noelle Chesley was quoted in the article “Wisconsin company holds ‘chip party’ to microchip workers.” Chesley stated that microchips and other body technologies are “the wave of the future.” The article (by Jeff Baenen) appeared in the Chicago Tribune and over 30 other newspapers as distributed by the Associated Press. It featured the story of 41 out of 85 employees of a Wisconsin technology company who volunteered to receive a microchip implant in their hand that allows them to open doors, log onto computers, and buy breakroom snacks by a wave of their hand. The article also touched upon an employee’s health concerns about the implant.
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Sociology PhD Student Stephanie Baran recently published, 鈥淰isual patriarchy: PETA advertising and the commodification of sexualized bodies鈥� in a book titled Women and Nature: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment, (Routledge Environmental Humanities) 1st Edition by Douglas A. Vakoch (Editor), Sam Mickey (Editor).
Congratulations, Stephanie!
Alumna Emily Brooke Schimke (Emily Schultz, MA 2015) co-authored a paper entitled “Techniques of Neutralization and Identity Work Among Accused Genocide Perpetrators” for Social Problems, a quarterly journal of The Society for the Study of Social Problems. Schimke collaborated with co-authors Emily Bryant of Boston University, Hollie Nyseth Brehm of The Ohio State University, and Christopher Uggen of the University of Minnesota.
In Focus online magazine features an article about Sociology and Psychology alumna, Sabrina Nettles, who works to improve the sexual health of the people of Washington D.C. Nettles is responsible for working with clinics and doctors鈥� offices to identify and track patients with HIV/AIDS and other STDs diagnoses. Using that data, she and her colleagues can work to identify at-risk populations and target particular groups for education and treatment. Nettles said: “What I really liked about Psychology and Sociology is that you can use those to go on to further education in a lot of different ways. They do provide a good backbone to move into a lot of different careers.”