NewsAlice Rossi, Harriet Martineau Professor of Sociology emerita, died peacefully on November 3. Read more Michelle Budig and Joya Misra were finalists for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Read More. Laura Heston published a book review in the December 2009 issue of Sociological Forum. The review is called "Mail-Order Husbands" and it is a review of Ericka Johnson's book Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance (2007). Aurora Vergara-Figueroa had two of her papers accepted for publication. One (in Bellagio-Italy) on a book edited by the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium that is part of the south Asia Hub and based in BRAC University in Bangladesh. The second paper in Chiapas-Mexico on a project led by Hampshire College. Millie Thayer's book, Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil, was released by Routledge Press. Rob Faulkner and Howard Becker's monograph, " 'Do You Know...?' The Jazz Repertoire in Action" was released by the University of Chicago Press.
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