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Volume: 49
Issue: 3

Accomplishments

Andréa Becker, The Graduate Center, CUNY, was selected by The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Institute for Citizens and Scholars as one of its Dissertation Fellows in Women’s Studies for 2021. Her dissertation is titled “‘I Just Wanted It Gone’: Examining ‘Wanted’ Hysterectomies through Two Gendered Case Studies.”

Professor Mauro F. Guillén, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed the next director of Cambridge Judge Business School beginning on September 1, 2021.

Shirley A. Jackson, Portland State University, was elected vice president-elect of the Pacific Sociological Association for 2021–2022, andpresident-elect of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for 2021–2022.

Marta Tienda, Princeton University, has been named one of Phi Beta Kappa’s 2021–2022 visiting scholars. These scholars travel to more than 100 colleges and universities each year, immersing themselves in the academic life of each institution.

Celso Villegas, Kenyon College, has been appointed the Book Review Essays Editor for the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, is the only sociologist among 184 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded a 2021 fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her work focuses on nationalism, religion, and memory.