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Social Movements

Event Start: February 02, 2021 08:15 PM

Event End: February 02, 2021 09:45 PM

Event Details:

Social Movements workshops will be held on Zoom from 12:15-1:45 on Tuesdays for the Winter 2021 quarter. The workshop is open to all faculty and graduate students. The Zoom link will be circulated to the listserv before each meeting and available on the department calendar. To be added to the listserv, please email njoseph@ucsb.edu or join socialmovements@soc.ucsb.edu on Google Groups.

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Maria Charles: Inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (2020)

Award Recipient: Maria Charles Award Date: December 30, 2020

Inducted into the AAAS for distinguished contributions to the comparative study of gender segregation. (2020)

France Winddance Twine: 2020 Co-recipient of the ASA Distinguished Career Award

Award Recipient: France Winddance Twine Award Date: August 23, 2020

2020 Co-recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, and Class Section’s DIstinguished Career Award.

Rujun Yang: 2020 Young Scholar Award of the China Times Cultural Foundation

Award Recipient: Rujun Yang Award Date: October 07, 2020

This annual award is granted to doctoral candidates in North America whose research focuses on Chinese society and culture.

Avery F. Gordon: Awarded 2020 ASA Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize

Award Recipient: Avery F. Gordon Award Date: November 01, 2020

This award recognizes the outstanding achievement of an individual who has dedicated a lifetime of work to the mission and values of American studies.

Professional Development

Talking with Terrorists:

The Methodology of Worldview Analysis

Professional Development

Playing the ‘Politics of Sexuality’

Professional Development

Event Start: April 28, 2021 07:00 PM

Event End: April 28, 2021 08:30 PM

Hannah Wohl, Assistant Professor, UCSB

What is Creativity? How Contemporary

Artists Judge Their Work.In this event, come listen to Hannah Wohl discuss her ongoing research around creativity and contemporary art.

Part of the Professional Development Colloquium Series