Kathleen Blee and Peter Simi provided an Expert Report and testimony in the landmark civil case Sines v. Kessler. The trial resulted in a more than $25 million judgment against the individuals and organizations who planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA. Both the report and testimony relied heavily on sociological research and key sociological constructs such as front and backstage behavior.
Glenn Bracey, Villanova University, and Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University, are quoted in the preface to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.
Andrew Cognard-Black, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, was named a lifetime Fellow of the National Collegiate Honors Council.
Theodoros Fouskas was elected as an assistant professor at the Department of Public Health Policy of the University of West Attica (Greece) in the field of sociology, with an emphasis on migration and public health.
Kenneth Sebastian León, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was awarded the 2021 Young Career Award by the American Society of Criminology, Division on White Collar and Corporate Crime.
Mary Rose, University of Texas-Austin, was promoted to full professor in its Department of Sociology.
Chris Smith, University of Toronto, and Sharon Oselin, University of California-Riverside, received a two-year grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada) for their new project Vice for Sale: Illicit Markets and Neighbourhood Change.
Tara Sutton, Mississippi State University, was selected as the New Scholar Award recipient for the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.
Dikla Yogev, University of Toronto, was awarded the Richard Ericson Paper Award 2021 for her article “Social Capital Transformation and Social Control: What Can We Learn from the Changing Style in Communication between Religious Communities and the Police during COVID-19,” published on August 14, 2021, in Policing and Society.
