Mona Khneisser is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Mona won the Middle East Studies Association graduate student paper on her paper titled "Cracks & Leaks of Water Infrastructure in Lebanon: The 'Making & Unmaking' of Hydrogeologies, Historical Subjectivities & Political Imaginaries". Please join us in...

Graduate student, Nehal Elmeligy's, paper "Airing Egypt's Dirty Laundry: BuSSy's Storytelling as Feminist Social Change," has been selected for this year's Graduate Student Paper Award for the Section on the Sociology of Emotions. To read the full paper, click here. Abstract: "In this paper, I examine...

Please join us in congratulating Jessennya Hernandez, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who was elected to serve on the council of the Sexualities section of ASA as the student representative for the upcoming year. She will also continue to serve on her elected role as the graduate student representative on the Race, Class, Gender...

Miguel Avalos-Beslow Graduate Paper Award The Beslow Graduate Paper Award is for a relevant paper on any sociological subject/area.      Hany Zayed-Douglas F. Barnes Scholarship A Scholarship for student whose research relates to development issues, with preference given to development in underdeveloped countries—to which Barnes...

Cassidy Marcum-Best Undergraduate Award Student Paper Award The Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award recognizes outstanding achievement in a Sociology student’s research and writing abilities.  Stephania Izaguirre-Highest GPA Award This award acknowledges the Senior in Sociology who has attained the Highest Overall Grade Point Average....

Jessennya has been awarded the Sociologists for Women in Society's (SWS), the Social Actions Initiative Awards for her proposal and work titled: “Feed the Block: Political Education and Community Empowerment." Jessennya is a co-founder of the grassroots mutual aid collective "Feed the Block," based in Southern California, that have created spaces and networks for BIPOC communities who are...

Five students from the University of Illinois--Kaitlin Ratcliff, Cheyenne Petersen, Dustin Epstein, Julia Illecki, Rusi Dong and Kaitlin Pericak--were honored for their presentation on access to mental health resources for student-athletes at power five universities. Congratulations students! For the full article click...

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Po-Chia Tseng, for receiving an Honorable Mention in the HRI Prizes for Research in the Humanities for best graduate student research for his paper titled, “Subordinated agency: Negotiating the biomedicalization of masculinity among gay men living with HIV” administered by the U of I's Humanity Research Institute. Po-Chia Tseng's research...