The deadline is fast approaching for graduate students in British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon interested in applying for the 2019 Bullitt Environmental Fellowship.
The Foundation awards this two-year, $100,000 Fellowship annually to one graduate student who has overcome adversity, demonstrates strong leadership potential, and is focused on work to safeguard the natural environment by promoting responsible human activities and sustainable communities in the Emerald Corridor, stretching from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR.
Eligible candidates will have a strong academic record and a university faculty member who will nominate and recommend them. Students of color are highly encouraged to apply.
Please share this announcement widely and encourage qualified candidates to apply by April 26, 2019. Visit www.bullitt.org for more information.
Please join us for our upcoming Sociology Department Colloquium and Stice Lecture:
Afternoon Reception: 4:30 – 6 p.m. in Savery 245
Where The Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure
Professor Risman will discuss revisions to her theory of gender as a social structure that are offered in her 2018 book. New here is the argument that we must distinguish between material and cultural phenomenon because tracing whether culture or material opportunities change first is important to understand the pace and direction of the gender revolution.
With a sample gender diverse, and majority minority, Chicagoland Millennials, Dr. Risman provides unique insights into today’s young adults. Gender is definitely being reimagined by some, but not by all. Some in this sample are true believers that men and women are essentially different and should be so. Others are gender innovators, defying stereotypes themselves, and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices. Perhaps new to this generation are the gender rebels who go beyond rejecting sexism, to rejecting sex categories themselves, and often refusing to present their bodies within them, some claiming the new identity of genderqueer instead of man and woman. And finally there are those who are simply confused by all the changes around them. There is no one typical Millennial. These interviews show how dramatically gender still constrains life in America. Professor Risman concludes with a call for a fourth wave of feminism to eradicate not only sexism but also the gender structure itself.
Barbara J. Risman is a College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her works have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Raleigh News & Observer, CNN.com, and the Huffington Post. She is a former President of the Southern Sociological Society and former Vice President of the American Sociological Association. Awards include the 2011 American Sociological Assocation’s Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology and the 2005 Katherin Jocher Belle Boone Award from the Southern Sociological Society for lifetime contributions to the study of gender. She has also served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society.
How to Build Relationships with the Media
April 23rd at 4pm in Savery 409
The Washington Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, together with the SSN national office, invite you to join a hands-on workshop where participants will learn how to:
- respond when a journalist calls
- communicate their research in a clear and effective manner
- identify what reporters are looking for in interviews with scholars
- maintain media relationships
Anyone who is looking to do more media work and need advice on how to prepare for interviews and build relationships with members of the media is welcome. Conducted by Danielle Kim from the national Scholars Strategy Network office, this free workshop is great for all scholars, whether you’ve done media work before or are just starting to think about public engagement.
Come with questions about how to talk to reporters and walk away feeling ready for your next interview! All attendees will receive customized resources and tipsheets on engaging the media.
There will be a wine and cheese reception following the conclusion of the workshop at 5:30.
TO REGISTER, EMAIL scholarswashington@gmail.com
Morgan Hardy
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/morganhardy/
Although haggling over the prices of goods and services is an integral part of life for the world’s poor, little work has been done to extend bargaining models to a developing country context. We develop a theoretical model of bargaining that takes into account the initial endowment of the seller. Our model predicts that sellers with lower initial endowment will settle for a lower price. We test our model using data from a bargaining exercise over a real product, a child’s shirt, with garment making microenterprises in Ghana. Our data supports the major testable prediction from our model: sellers from poorer households agree to a lower price than rich sellers. This relationship is robust to controlling for a number of potentially confounding firm and owner characteristics, including firm size and product quality. Preliminary findings from a lab-in-the-field experiment, in which we randomly assign initial endowments in a bargaining game that mirrors the shirt exercise, appear to corroborate our results. We conclude that further exploration of this “need-bargaining” relationship is a key frontier in future bargaining research aimed at understanding the lives of the poor.
On Wednesday, April 17, join Jewish Studies graduate fellows Kerice Doten-Snitker and Berkay Gülen for lunchtime talks on using sociology to track anti-Semitism in medieval Europe, and understanding foreign policy makers in Israel through interviews.
Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 – 1:30pm
HUB 145 (map)
Please RSVP here: https://bit.ly/2Z2gE5V
Kerice Doten-Snitker, Sociology – “Jewish Expulsions in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire”
Berkay Gülen, International Studies – “Discussing Turkey-Israel Relations in Israel: Common Themes, Different Perspectives”
Faculty respondents: Liora Halperin, International Studies; Annegret Oehme, Germanics
Learn about the dynamics and political calculations behind expulsions of Jews from cities in medieval Europe — dramatic anti-Semitic actions that political elites used to bolster their own power— from the perspective of sociology; and what Israeli foreign policy makers think about Israel’s international relationships, especially with other Middle Eastern countries like Turkey, and the benefits and challenges of using interviews and qualitative methods in academic research.
Light lunch will be served.
Examine the past and present of Seattle’s homelessness crisis, and discuss solutions addressing this structural and systemic issue.
9:00am-3:30pm – 220 2nd Ave S, Seattle, WA, 98104
Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Seattle, WA
This one-day workshop just prior to the IAPHS Annual Conference will provide an orientation to the value of interdisciplinary collaboration, challenges inherent in interdisciplinary work, and skills and resources that facilitate interdisciplinary success in population health science. Workshop participants will engage with leading population health and interdisciplinary scholars in interactive group exercises and case studies with a focus on the combining the knowledge, theory, and methods of diverse fields to understand and address health disparities. View the provisional agenda here.
The workshop is open to scientists training and/or working in any field that contributes knowledge relevant to understanding the causes of health disparities at multiple levels of analysis (from the molecular to the societal and environmental) and/or the ways in which health disparities can be ameliorated. Students and early career scientists are especially encouraged to apply, but individuals at all career stages are welcome. Students must have completed at least two years of post-baccalaureate training in a discipline.
Applications will be accepted through May 5, 2019. Applicants will be notified by the end of June. Workshop enrollment is limited to facilitate the success of small-group activities.
Funding to defray travel costs will be available on a limited basis. Please contact Sue Bevan (sbevan@iaphs.org) with any questions.
This workshop is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Register Here
CSDE, in partnership with the Population Health Initiative and Urban@UW, is pleased to announce the launch of the University of Washington Data Collaborative (UWDC), a new data and administrative infrastructure for storing and accessing innovative data, and building collaborations across the campus community. This event will introduce UW researchers and administrators to the benefits of the initiative, describe the state-of-the-art computing system, and introduce some of the early partnerships. The program will feature comments by Anirban Basu (Pharmacy), Gregg Colburn (Built Environment), Sara Curran (CSDE), Brad Greer (UWIT), Mark Long (Public Policy), Ali Mokdad (Population Health Initiative & IHME), and Thaisa Way (Urban@UW). Appetizers and drinks will be served.
The UW College of the Environment, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion would like to invite you to join the celebrations towards Earth Day, by recognizing and honoring the voice of communities of color through the 2019 Environmental Justice Conference: In-Reach before Outreach.
WHEN: April 19, 2019; 1:00-5:00pm
WHERE: Maple Hall Great Room, University of Washington
DESCRIPTION: Global climate change is changing at a faster rate due, mainly to human activities, with observable effects on socio-ecological systems. The impact of these changes is expected to be catastrophic and now, more than ever, collaborative strategies are needed to mitigate and adapt to new environmental conditions.
The 2019 Environmental Justice Conference organized by the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the UW College of the Environment will focus on issues of equity and inclusive collaboration to confront climate disruption. The main goal of this conference is to reflect on our outreach strategies and look into community-based solutions. Participants will be able to engage with scholars from different disciplines as well as with local community leaders in a half-a-day program, including a panel-workshop in community engagement through participatory action research and a panel with experts in environmental coalition building.
Registration for the conference is open to all. If you plan on attending the conference, please RSVP Nicole David at nmd3@uw.edu or 206.221.6634.
Description. The NIH-funded project entitled The Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS) at the University of Utah (PI, Dr. Kim Korinek, Sociology) is currently recruiting a
postdoctoral fellow with expertise in health and aging research. The VHAS main foci are the collection and analysis of extensive survey, anthropometric and biomarker data in a
cohort of war survivors in order to disentangle lingering effects of exposure to the Vietnam War on old-age health and mortality. The project aims are to identify the specific life course
exposures to wartime stressors and pathways of influence into late adulthood health and wellbeing. The project also documents late life social and family relationships, migration in
the life course, and material conditions as they are linked to military service and war exposures in early-mid adulthood. The postdoctoral position is for one year. It is renewable
for a second and possibly third year contingent on excellent job performance and continued funding.