Dan Knudsen, Geography and director of the International Studies Program, has been named one of the recipients of the 2009 John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Programs and Studies.

Gerald Wright, Political Science, received the award for the best paper on state politics presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Co-authored with Elizabeth Rigby of the University of Houston, the awarded paper was entitled, “State Parties, Polarization, and Representation of the Poor.”

Phaedra Pezzulloand Jennifer Meta Robinson, Communication and Culture, have received one of the first Sustainability Course Development Fellowships from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs. Pezzullo and Robinson’s course, “Communicating Sustainability,” is developed in the context of a broader plan on “Teaching Sustainability and Environmental Literacy in the Humanities.” The course will focus on analyzing and understanding how both verbal and non-verbal communication forms are used by individuals and organizations to express humans’ relationship with the natural environment and the role of rhetoric in shaping the sustainability movement.

Yeidy M. Rivero, Communication and Culture, was invited to be a visiting resident scholar at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2009.

The Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design recently opened its new Interior/Design Studies studio in the Smith Research Center.

Gerhard Glomm, Economics, presented the keynote lecture for the fourth annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, organized in December by the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, India.

Kim Huynh, Economics, continues his research program to understand firm dynamics and the role of financial frictions on small, young, and private firms in Canada. His research has been supported by Statistics-Canada Research Fellowship and two research grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Grant one, valued at $79,200CDN, is to support research, while grant two is for $40,000CDN and is used to support data development and fund workshops."

Edward G. Carmines, Warner O. Chapman Professor of Political Science and Rudy Professor of Political Science, presented the Herman B. Wells Distinguished Lecture entitled “Critical Moments in the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign” at the annual dinner and meeting of the Society for the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University on November 7, 2008.

Art Alderson, Sociology, was elected to the Sociological Research Association, an honor society of scholars in the field of sociology.

Elizabeth Armstrong, Sociology, was named a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Tim Bartley, Sociology, received a “Global Standards in Domestic Contexts: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ in Practice,” grant from the American Sociological Association/ National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline in 2008. He also received a Sustainability Course Development Fellowship from the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University.

Steve Bernard, Sociology, received the Outstanding Article Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sex and Gender for “Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?”

Clem Brooks, Sociology, received a “Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe” grant from the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation in 2008. He also received Honorable Mention honors for the Best Book Award from the Political Sociology section of the American Sociological Association for his book, Why Welfare States Persist.

Tim Hallett, Sociology, received the Best Paper Award at the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research, held at the Graduate School of Management of the University of California Davis.

J. Scott Long, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Statistics and the Associate Vice Provost for Research, delivered the 2007-2008 WST Distinguished Lecture at The Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology. The lecture was entitled “From Scarcity to Visibility: The Changing Presence and Participation of Women in Science.

Jane McLeod, Sociology, was awarded Best Publication (with Danielle Fettes) by the American Sociological Association’s Section on the Sociology of Mental Health. She was also the keynote speaker at the 11th International Conference on Social Stress Research, 2008.

Eliza Pavalko, Sociology, was inducted into the Sociological Research Association, and was elected chair of the American Sociological Association’s  Section on Aging and the Life Course.

Bernice Pescosolido, Sociology, was named to the International Advisory Board on Stigma and Discrimination, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 2008-2009. She delivered the keynote address, “The Stigma of Mental Illness in Global Context: First Findings from the SGC-MHS,” to the Fourth International Stigma Conference in London in January, and also delivered an lecture entitled, “Stigma: Lessons and New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness,” for the NIH Behavioral and Social Science Research Lecture Series in February.

Brian Powell was named Rudy Professor of Sociology in 2008, and received a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership Award from the Office of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties for 2008-09.

Fabio Rojas, Sociology, is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan in  Ann Arbor, 2008-2010.

Quincy Stewart, Sociology, received a 2009 IU Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund Award for "Social Research on Race: Fresh Voices, Seasoned Veterans."

Pamela Walters, Sociology, received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2008-09.

Martin Weinberg, Sociology, received a 2008 Kinsey Award for Distinguished Contributions to Sexual Science, conferred by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.