Katie Billings was awarded the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) Student Award for 2024, recognizing the work of notable quality, potential, and/or likely impact on the field, completed by a student in the population health sciences. Katie was also awarded a Graduate School Summer 2024 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and successfully defended her dissertation in August, titled, "Surviving Suicide."
Ashley Garner defended her second comps, on her paper on home health care agencies.
Venus Green was awarded a Graduate School Summer 2024 Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
Salomi Jacob is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Dr. Charles Mark Scholarship in Global Sociology.
Peter Kent-Stoll is the recipient of the 2024 Andersen Graduate Enrichment Award for Research on Inequality.
Shuyin Liu, alongside Laurel Smith-Doerr and Joya Misra, published in Inside Higher Ed, based on research conducted within the UMass ADVANCE program, "COVID's Lasting Impacts on Faculty Inclusion."
Danielle McCarthy's article in Social Science & Medicine is in press. “Gendered anti-blackness, maternal health & chattel slavery: OB/Gyn knowledge as a determinant of death of black women.” Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 353.
MD Sabur successfully defended his dissertation in August, titled, "Migration, Remittances, and Social Change: Class, Gender, and Religion in Rural Bangladesh."
Ember Skye Kane-Lee presented research in June on how employers, organizations and public policy makers can address barriers to hiring that internationally educated immigrant professionals experience. This research was presented at The Boston Foundation and has resulted in a television interview with Spectrum News of Worchester, and publication in Sampan Newspaper, New England's only Bilingual (English/Chinese) paper. Ember is also the second author on an article, " I don't believe that I have been wanted:" Processes of Overinclusion and Exclusion in Racialized and Gendered Organizations," recently published in the Journal of Social Problems, with Joya Misra and Laurel Smith-Doerr.
Aaron Yates was a recipient of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project's Summer 2024 Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Additionally, his dissertation proposal, titled "Haunting Silences; Du Boisian Reflections on the Development of American Sociology," has been approved by his committee, and he is now ABD.