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Social Sciences Commencement Awards 2007

5/11/2007

Student Awards

Anthropology Department

  • Outstanding Senior in Archaeology: Abigail Chipps Smith

Economics Department

  • Gaston V. Rimlinger Economics Essay Prize: Ying Shi
  • Omicron Delta Epsilon Society: Sabina Bharwani, Carrie Anne Fossum, Daniel Harrington Jaqua, Sara Michelle Zampierin
  • Honor Students: Sabina Bharwani, Clint Casey Corcoran, Ying Shi

Managerial Studies

  • H. Russell Pitman Award: Sara Michelle Zampierin, Ting Wang

Mathematical Economic Analysis

  • Honor Students: Jason Louis Goldman, John Richard Horstman, Zachary Aaron Epstein, Smita Das, Sara Michelle Zampierin, Carrie Anne Fossum, Cameron Duncan Day, Clarence Chi-Chung Yung, Kirstin Doyle-Cooney

Political Science Department

  • John Gardner Award (Best Dissertation): Valentin L. Krustev
  • Alan Sace Award (Best Dissertation): Greg Vonhamme, Juan Pablo Micozzi

Policy Studies

  • Joseph Cooper Prize: Smita Das

Psychology Deparment

  • Laughery Award: Wen Zhou
  • Honors in Psychology: Natalie Wolfson, Evan Ross
  • John W. Brelsford Award: Jessica Kelly, Evan Ross
  • William C. Howell Award: Natalie Wolfson

Sociology Department

  • Beth Shapiro Award: Amber Todora
  • Weber-Durkeim Prize: Diane Wu, Philip Redman
  • Walter-Helen Hall Prize (Best Paper): Tatum Clinton-Selin, Amber Todora (long essay)
  
     
     
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E. Long
Elizabeth Long
Professor of Sociology and Department Chair
 
 
 
 

Elizabeth Long majored in History at Stanford University, and worked for several years in publishing for Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in New York City. She completed her doctorate at Brandeis University in 1979, teaching Women's Studies and doing administrative work at Wellesley College and M.I.T. during graduate school. She joined the faculty at Rice University in 1978.

Professor Long has published in the fields of cultural sociology, sociology of gender, the sociology of knowledge, qualitative sociology, and contemporary sociological theory, as well as in the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, cultural studies, and woman's studies. Her most recent book is Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served on several Editorial Boards. At Rice University, she has won several teaching awards, including the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Julia Miles Chance Award for teaching excellence and gender sensitivity. Her ongoing projects include an article about an African American women's book club associated with the N.A.A.C.P. that met in Houston from 1949 into the 1970's; a study of the uses of field research and the concept of culture in the Chicago School of Sociology; a study of the varieties of women's activism in the late 20th and early 21st century; and a piece on Merleau Ponty's relevance for feminist rethinking of the body.