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Awards, Prizes, and Fellowships
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
Research and Teaching Jobs
Awards, Prizes, and Fellowships
Bryson, Stephanie
Fellowships for University-Based Doctoral Candidates and Faculty for Investigator-Initiated Research in Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003-05 ($25,000, 2 years), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau.
Hardman, Emilie(with Brandeis student Josh Russell)
Hewlett Pluralism Alliance Grant, Spring 2004.
Freidin, Betina
Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Brandeis Graduate Division, 2006-07.
National Science Foundation Award, 2006-07.
Jacobson, Heather
Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Brandeis Graduate Division, 2004-05.
Alumni Scholar, Brandeis University, 2004-05.
Provost Dissertation Award, Brandeis University, 2004-05.
Kolker, Emily
Susan G. Komen Dissertation Grant; Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation ($30,000); term: 2 years.
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Young Writer's Award from the journal Sociology of Health and Illness, 2005
Kulick, Rachel
Spencer Foundation Fellow, 2004-05.
Spencer Foundation Fellow, 2007-08.
Lovejoy, Meg
Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Brandeis Graduate Division, 2005-06.
Berkowitz Prize 2007.
University Prize Instructorship 2007.
Provost dissertation expense award 2005; 2006.
Potter, Deborah
Heller Alumni Grant ($2000).
Thomas, Hannah
Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development from September 2007 to September 2008 ($13,500).
Werner, Karen
Goddard Faculty Development Grant.
Zoltanski, Jennifer
Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Brandeis Graduate Division, 2004-05.
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$450.00 award in support of dissertation work, Brandeis University, Provost Office.
Recent Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
Angell, Alison
Presented her work on expectant fatherhood at the Eastern Sociological Society meeting, Spring 2003.
Bryson, Stephanie A.
Constructing the Good Enough Family: Child Welfare Decision-Making in the ASFA Era. Invited address, Children's Bureau, CAPTA (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act) Research Grantee's Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2004.
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"Satisfactory Accommodations: Cleanliness, Culture, and Compromise in the Fort Totten Field Matron Program, 1913-1915," to be presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, 2004.
Duffy, Mignon
"The Racialization of Low-Wage Care: Not Just for Women," to be presented at Carework Conference, 2004.
Freidin, Betina
"Performing Expertise and Producing Bodily Sensations: The Case of Acupuncture Treatment," to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, 2004.
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"Analyzing the Quality of Family Planning Services in Buenos Aires: Convergence and Discrepancy between Users' and Experts' Views." To be presented at the XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, October 2004 (in collaboration with Marcela Cerrutti).
Jacobson, Heather
"Choosing Russia, Choosing China: An Analysis of Factors Involved in the Parental Choice of Adoptive Country." Reproductive Disruptions: Childlessness, Adoption, and Other Reproductive Complexities Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2005.
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"Parental Perspectives and Strategies for Birth Culture Engagement in International Adoptive Families." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2004.
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Gendered Obligations? Kin Contact within Cross-National Families." North Central Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 2004.
Kolker, Emily
"Framing as a Cultural Resource in Health Social Movements: Funding Activism and The Breast Cancer Movement in the U.S., 1990-93." Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, 2004.
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"Inheriting Inequality: Genetic Risk, Kinship, and the
Inheritance of Social Inequality." Society for the Study of
Social Problems annual meeting, 2004.
Lovejoy, Meg
"Lovejoy, M. & Stone, P. "Sidetracked: Professional Women's Career Interruption and Redirection." American Sociological Association, Montrealm Quebec, Canada Aug. 2006.
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Lovejoy, M. "Bodily Subjectivity: Mapping A New Perspective on Women's Body Experience." American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, Aug, 19, 2003.
Osnowitz, Debra
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"Control and Contingency in a Mobile Workforce," . Eastern Sociological Society meetings, 2004.
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Organized panels for Society for the Study of Social
Problems on Labor and Social Policy: Wages and Work; and
Regulation and Change, 2004.
Phillips, Benjamin T
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"Contexts for Mobilization: Community Connections and Klan Presence in North Carolina, 1964-66." Accepted for presentation at the 2004 meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Stults,Cheryl
"Demedicalization and Risk Scare on the Utilization of Hormone Replacement Therapy," American Sociological Annual; Meeting, August 2005.
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"The Commercialization and Commodification of Menopause," Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, August 2005
Werner, Karen
"A Pragmatist Sociology," in panel on "Teaching Innovations," to be presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems meetings, 2004.
Research and Teaching Jobs
Bryson, Stephanie
Project Coordinator/ Adjunct Instructor, Office of Child Welfare Research and Development, University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare.
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Visiting Lecturer, School of Social Work, Smith College, Summer 2004.
Freidin, Betina
Co-investigator of the study for the World Health Organization, "Assessing Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Buenos Aires: From Users' Perspective to Standardized Measures," 2003-04.
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Research Assistant of the Project "Lynn Neighborhood
Asthma Study" at the Public Health School of Harvard
University, June-August 2004, PI: Stefan Timmermans.
Jacobson, Heather
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology,
Lasell College, 2003.
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University Prize Instructorship, Brandeis University,
fall, 2003.
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Lecturer, "Principles of Sociology," Emerson College,
Summer, 2003.
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Research Assistant for Professor Peter Conrad, 2003- 04.
Kolker, Emily
University Prize Instructorship, Brandeis
University, Spring 2003.
Phillips, Benjamin
Research Associate, Cohen Center for Modern
Jewish Studies.
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Research Fellow, North American Jewish Data Bank.
Potter, Debbie
Project Director, Human Services Research
Institute, Cambridge, MA.