April: DSOC faculty member Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue was quoted in a New York Times article on Nigeria's rapid rise in population.
Dr. Marygold Walsh-Dilley received the Philip Taietz Prize for most outstanding paper presented at a scholarly meeting for the year 2011.
Ashon Bradford received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award for 2011-2012.
Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd, by DSOC staff member Mary Jordan & Joyce Hatch, with Ronald E. Ostman, editor, has been awarded the 2012 Gold Medal Award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for the Best Regional Non-Fiction, U.S. North-East.
Gonzales et al - Effect of Tribal Language Use on Colorectal Cancer Screening Among American Indians
"Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK" co-edited by Mark Shucksmith, David L. Brown, Sally Shortall, Mildred Warner and Jo Vergunst. Routledge. This book includes chapters by DSoc department members David Brown, Max Pfeffer, Pilar Parra, Nina Glasgow, Mildred Warner, Steven Wolfe, Chuck Geisler, Richard Steadman, and Megan Swindal.
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Shelley Feldman
Professor
My research goals are to better understand broad processes of global social change, especially as these processes are reflected in particular national contexts and among particular social groups. This leads to two parallel but distinct areas of research. The first explores questions of development,... Read Shelley Feldman's full profile
Emme Edmunds (far right) was recently awarded a fellowship for the summer 2012 at the World Health Organization. Read more about Emme here.
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Junior Ajay Kailas plans to study medicine after graduation. Read more about Ajay here.
Phil McMichael, incoming faculty member Rachel Bezner Kerr, and DSOC alumna Hannah Wittman will all be presenting at Food (In)Security-Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Chicago in May.
Steven Wolf gave a talk in the Yale Forestry Forum, "Construction of working forests in the Adirondacks: What can contemporary experiences tell us about institutional complementarity, hybridity and stickiness?"
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue gave a seminar at Duke University's Population Research Institute (DuPri) focusing on the demography of inequality, specifically new conceptual links between demographic trends and macro-level inequality.
Institute for the Social Sciences
Announces the New 2012-2015 Theme Project:
Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy, & Livelihoods on the Ground
The Institute for the Social Sciences is pleased to announce the just-selected 2012-2015 theme project, "Contested Global Landscapes: Property, Governance, Economy and Livelihoods on the Ground." This project is co-led by Charles Geisler and Wendy Wolford, both from Development Sociology, and thus far includes the following Cornell faculty: Nancy Chau, Applied Economics and Management, and Paul Nadasdy, Anthropology and American Indian Studies. PDF here.
The Land Deal Politics Initiative
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Academic Conference
GLOBAL LAND GRABBING II
October 17 – 19, 2012
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
More info here.
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Photo of Emme Edmunds provided by E. Edmunds. Photo of AJ Kailas provided by AJ Kailas. Photo of Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue by David Hawshurst/Wilson Center. Photo of Hannah McDermott by ILR News Center. Photos of Marygold Walsh-Dilley and Ashon Bradford by L. Johnson.
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