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• David A. Lopez, 1996, was promoted to full professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), in August 2009. He came to CSUN after time as an assistant professor at CSUN (2000-2005) and tenured and promoted to associate professor in 2006. He gives a shout out to Dr. Steve Gold for the help Dr. Gold has given him in his development as a scholar and professor.
  

• Dr. Tom Dietz is quoted in the cover article on social science research on climate change in the popular magazine Seed. Click on the link http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the last experiment/
  

• Dr. Lawrence Busch was elected member of the Academie d'Agriculture de France, 2009. For details in English (click here) Dr. Busch also received an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Lisbon which will be awarded to him in April, 2009.
  
  
• Linda Kalof’s recent book, Cultural History of Animals has been named by Choice as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008.
  
  
• Jualynne Dodson has been selected as the first recipient of an Excellence in Diversity award at MSU for Excellence in Advancing Global Competency. She will receive the award on March 25 at 4pm in the Clara Bell Smith Center. Please come and applaud this honor.
  
  
• Sandy Marquart-Pyatt has all but accepted our offer (we are still negotiating a bit). So we have now recruited Zachary Neal, Isabel Ayala and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt and they will start next August. If you have a chance-please send them an email or note welcoming them to the faculty.
  
  
• Dr. Jualynne Dodson and THE AFRICAN ATLANTIC RESEARCH TEAM - Professor Jualynne E. Dodson directs the African Atlantic Research Team of MSU's Sociology Department. For the 2008 calendar year, the team continued its excellence in academics research, writing, and professional presentations. Some important milestones included (click here)
  
  
• Dr. Aaron M. McCright (Lyman Briggs College, Department of Sociology) has received Michigan State University?s 2009 Teacher-Scholar Award.This award is given annually to six members of the MSU faculty from the ranks of instructor, assistant professor and associate professor who early in their careers have earned the respect of students and colleagues for their devotion to and skill in teaching. The essential purpose of the award is to provide recognition to the best teachers who have served at MSU for seven years or less.Dr. McCright is the fifth Sociology Department faculty member to receive this award since 1969, and he is the first since 1976.
  
  
• Tammy Spangler has been recognized as an MSU staff member that has been supportive of a non-traditional student. She has been recognized on the Family Resource Center website and has received a certificate to the MSU Dairy Story. As further acknowledgement of her support as well as others of the staff and faculty of MSU, the Family Resource Center will honor Tammy and her peers at the Kellogg Center on October 19th, 2008.
  
  
  ACADEMIC PUBS
  
  
• Hilliker, L., 2008. The Reporting of Grief by One Newspaper of Record for the U.S.: The New York Times. Omega-Journal of Death and Dying, Baywood Publishing Company, Vol. 57, Issue 3, 261-278. (R)
  
  
• Maxine Baca Zinn
  
  Maxine Baca Zinn (with D. Stanley Eitzen). GLOBALIZATION: THE TRANSOFRMATION OF SOCIAL WORLDS, Second Edition. Wadsworth (2009).
  
  Maxine Baca Zinn (with D. Stanley Eitzen and Kelly Eitzen Smith). SOCIAL PROBLEMS, 11th edition. Allyn & Bacon (2009).
  
  
• Tom Dietz, Rockwood, Larry L., Ronald E. Stewart. 2008. "Foundations of Environmental Sustainability: the Coevolution of Science and Policy." Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  

• Zhang, Zhenmei, Danan Gu and Mark D. Hayward. 2008. “Early-life Influences on Cognitive Impairment among Chinese Oldest-Old.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 63: S25-S33.
  
  
• Craig Harris

C. K. Harris, Knight, A.J., M.R. Worosz, M.K. Lapinski-Lafaive, T.A. Ten Eyck, E.C.D. Todd, L.D. Bourquin, T. Dietz, and P.B. Thompson. 2008 (forthcoming). Consumer perceptions of the food safety system: Implications for food safety educators and policy makers. Food Protection Trends, vol 28(3).

C. K. Harris, Worosz, M.R., A.J. Knight, and D.S Conner. 2008 (forthcoming). Barriers to sustainability in the specialty red meat sector. Southern Rural Sociology, vol 22(3).

C. K. Harris, Worosz, M.R., and A.J. Knight. 2008 (forthcoming). Resilience in the red meat sector: The role of food safety policy. Agriculture and Human Values, vol 25(2). (DOI : 10.1007/s10460-008-9127-z)

C. K. Harris, A. J. Knight, M.R. Worosz, E.C.D. Todd, and L.D. Bourquin. 2008. Listeria in raw milk soft cheese: A case study of risk governance in the United States using the IRGC framework. Pp. 179-220 in Global Risk Governance: Concept and Practice Using the IRGC Framework, edited by O. Renn and K. Walker: Springer Press. (ISBN: 978-1-4020-6798-3)

C.K. Harris, Todd, E.C.D., A.J., Knight, and M.R. Worosz. 2007. Spinach and the media: How we learn about a major outbreak. Food Protection Trends, vol 27(5): 314-321.

OUTREACH PUB

Craig K. Harris and Worosz, M.R. 2007. What is food Safety? Cover story, Pp 6-9 in Inside the Bag. National Food Safety and Toxicology Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

ACAEMIC PRESENTATIONS

C. K. Harris, Todd, E., A. Knight, and M.R. Worosz. 2007. Risk Communication: The Spinach Outbreak and the Media. Poster to be presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Risk Analysis, San Antonio, TX, 09 – 12 Dec.

C. K. Harris, Worosz, M.R. and A.J. Knight. 2007 Resilience in the Red Meat Sector: The Role of Food Safety Policy. Invited paper presented during the special thematic sessions of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food Research Interest Group, “Charting Fault Lines in Agriculture and Food Systems: What Can We Contribute?” during the annual meetings of the Rural Sociology Society, Santa Clara, CA, 02 – 05 Aug.

Harris, C.K., A.J. Knight, and M.R. Worosz. 2007. The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Perceptions of Food Safety Among U.S. Consumers. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Association for Food Protection,Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 08 11 Jul.

C.K. Harris, Knight A.J., M.R. Worosz, E.C.D Todd and L.D. Bourquin. 2007. The International Risk Governance Framework as Applied to Listeria monocytogenes in Raw Milk Soft Cheese.Poster presented at the annual meetings of the International Association for Food Protection, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 08 – 11 July.

C.K. Harris, Worosz, M.R., A.J. Knight, and D.S Conner. 2007. Regulatory Barriers to Sustainability in the Specialty Red Meat Sector. Selected paper presented at the special session on Sustainable Agriculture and Quality of Life during the joint session of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association and the Southern Rural Sociological Association at the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists in Mobile, AL 04 – 06 Feb.

RSH GRANT

C.K. Harris, Worosz, M.R., A.J. Knight, and D. Conner. 2007. Constraints to Red Meat Entrepreneurship. Michigan State University, Community Vitality Program, Full Grant ($45,000).

• Vladimir Shlapentokh

Books:

The Quality of Sociological Information: Validity, Representativness and Prognostic Potential, Moscow: Zentr Sozialnogo Prognozirovania, 2006 (in Russian).

Contemporary Russia as a Feudal Society: A New Perspective on the Post-Soviet Era, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Articles:

“China in the Russian Mind Today: Ambivalence and Defeatism. Russia’s De-democratization,” Europe-Asia Studies, No. 1, 2007.

“Hatred of Others: The Kremlin Powerful But Rrisky Weapon,” World Affairs, No 1, 2007.

“The Hushing Up of the Public Names As An Indicator of Authoritarianism,” http://www.conflictmanagement.ru/ ( in Russian).

• Deborah Lowry received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship through the MSU "GenCen" (Center for Gender in Global Context") for the 2007-2008 academic year.
  
  
• Lawrence Busch recently published: L Busch, 2007. “Performing the Economy, Performing Science: From Neoclassical to Supply Chain Models in the Agrifood Sector,” Economy and Society 36 (3): 439-468. In addition, he has another article in press: . Busch, L. 2008. “Nanotechnologies, Food, and Agriculture: Next Big Thing or Flash in the Pan?” Agriculture and Human Values, forthcoming.

Busch also published two papers with former and current graduate students Maki Hatanaka and David Holt, respectively:

Holt, D.; T. Reid, and L. Busch. 2007. “Les Normes dans l’Agriculture Contemporaine: Du Droit Positif à l’Etat Evaluateur et Auditeur,” Déméter 13: 89-115.

Hatanaka, M. and L. Busch. 2008. “Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System: An Objective or Socially Mediated Governance Mechanism?” Sociologia Ruralis, forthcoming.

• Dr. Carl Taylor will be receiving the Crystal Apple Award from the Department of Education. The Crystal Apple Award is a way to honor an educator as being representative of excellence and commitment. Read more on the Crystal Apple Award

• Linda Kalof has recently published her 6 volume edited series, A Cultural History of Animals.  I also edited Volume 1 in the series, A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity.  See the publisher's website:
  
  http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=A%20Cultural%20History%20of%20Animals
  
  
• Dr. Cliff Broman has written the following for publication: Broman, C.L. 2007. “Perceived discrimination and alcohol use among black and white college students”. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, in press; Broman, C.L. et al. 2007.  “Prevalence of DSM-IV substance use disorders among African-Americans and Caribbean Blacks in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health, in press.
  
  
• The poster, "Deliberation Lite: How Does Feedback Influence Public Climate Change Policy?," , created by David Bidwell and Rachel Shwom was selected for honorable mention in the Social Sciences category at the 2007 AAAS Student Poster Competition.
  
  They will be recognized in the 20 April issue of Science and on the
  Annual Meeting website at www.aaasmeeting.org. In addition, an award
  certificate will be sent to both David and Rachel.
  
  The department thanks them for their participation in the 2007 AAAS Student Poster
  Competition, and congratulations them on their achievement!
  
  Four papers are to be presented at the North Central Sociological Association annual meetings in Chicago, April 4-7, 2007: “Towards Inclusive Learning: Engaging Undergraduates through Research”, Brendan Mullan (Michigan State University); Sociology and On-line Education: Tips for Successful Implementation, Brendan Mullan and Colleen Wilson (Michigan State Universit); “The Southern Cone of America and the Migration to the Untied States: A Migration Systems Analysis”, Cristian A. Dona-Reveco (Michigan State University); Modernity, Post Modernity and Globalization: Toward a Sociodemography of the Current Era, Cristian A. Dona-Reveco (Michigan State University)
  
  Dr. Mullan also presented a paper on “Migration, Gender, and Local Economic Development: Evidence from an Albanian Case Study,” at a special conference on Gender, Borders and Migration since 1850, hosted by the University of Leiden in Holland in January 2007.

• Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald have just published "The Animals Reader, An Annotated Athology of Classic and Contemporary Essays on Animals and Society"
  Linda Kalof and Lori Baralt's chapter on "The Sociology of Femininity"
  appears in The Handbook of 21st Century Sociology.

• UNIVERSITIES IN THE AGE OF CORPORATE SCIENCE by Alan Rudy, Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Bradley T. Shaw, Toby Ten Eyck, Craig Harris and Lawrence Busch, Temple Univeristy Press, January 28, 2007. This book takes an in-depth look at the $25 million contract signed in 1998 between the University of California-Berkeley and the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis. The book takes the reader through the intricacies of both university financing and public relations, as well as the unique position of UC-Berkeley within both the University of California system and higher education.

• Nawyn, Stephanie J. 2007. Welcoming the Stranger: Constructing an Interfaith Ethic of Refuge. In P. Hondagneu-Sotelo (ed.) "Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants." New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

• Lawrence Busch was recently appointed as a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

• "In the Company of the Lone Terrorist: Socio-cultural Influences On and By McVeigh, Kaczynski, and Rudolph", by Bernard Finifter, an abstract for presentation to the Conference on the Study of Radicalism, Kellogg Conference Center, Michigan State University, January 25-27, 2007.

• The Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards (IFAS) has a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the social and ethical dimensions of nanotechnology in food and agriculture. Further information about this project may be obtained through the IFAS website:

http://ifas.msu.edu/index.htm.A recent MSU press release (http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2749/content.htm) highlighted one of the project outputs -- a special issue of the journal Practicing Anthropology (Vol. 28, #2, Spring '06) devoted entirely to 'Nanotechnology in Society.' The journal, co-edited by Dr. John Stone, IFAS Researcher and co-principal investigator on the agrifood nanotechnology grant, is the first-of-its-kind social science journal in North America to devote an entire issue to the topic, and illustrates the increasing importance of societal issues in nanotechnology research and development. The special issue journal is accessible at: http://www.ifas.msu.edu/downloads/Practicing_Anthropology.pdf.

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