Sociology Club Meet and Greet
Please join us on Friday, November 13, 2009, for the Sociology Club Meet and Greet. Students and faculty are welcome to come and interact outside of the classroom. There will be food at the meet and greet, so please...
Published: November 13, 2009 in Sociology
Sociology Club Bake Sale!!!!
Please come out to the University Center on Thursday, November 12, for some yummy baked goods. Proceeds from the bake sale will go to support the UMD Sociology Club.
The bake sale will run most of the day. Please...
Published: November 12, 2009 in Sociology
Dow Chemical's Knowledge Factories: Action Anthropology against Michigan's Company Town Culture
Author: Brian McKenna
Anthropology in Action, Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 2009 pp. 39-50(12)
ABSTRACT: The article describes my efforts as a public anthropologist/journalist in addressing
the official culture...
Published: October 27, 2009 in Anthropology
Guest Speaker: Diversity in the Workplace Class
Tammy Klugh, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Kelly Services in Troy, Michigan spoke to Marie Waung's (PSYC/WGST 3955) Diversity in the Workplace Class. The students learned how having a...
Published: October 21, 2009 in Psychology
Darwin Anniversary Colloquium: Fall 2009 events
2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. UM-Dearborn is marking those anniversaries with a series of events and exhibits on...
Published: October 13, 2009 in Behavioral Sciences
Sociology professor receives grants for her research on how non-traditional students experience college
Pamela Aronson, assistant professor of sociology, has received two grants for her project: "Breaking Barriers or Locked Out? How Non-Traditional Students Experience College." Funded by a $10,000 grant...
Published: September 14, 2009 in Sociology
Anthropology professor takes Pluralism Project to Malaysia
Associate Professor of Anthropology Claude Jacobs and his colleague Bill McNeece have been invited to be part of a panel discussion and to display UM-Dearborn's Pluralism Project photographs at an international conference on...
Published: August 31, 2009 in Anthropology
Professor Lempert receives Feminist Activism Award for 2009
Congratulations to Sociology Professor Lora Lempert, who received the Feminist Activism Award for 2009 from the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) on August 8 at their annual meeting in San Francisco.
This award recognizes...
Published: August 31, 2009 in Sociology
Nancy Wrobel receives promotion from U-M regents
The University of Michigan Regents approved the promotion of Nancy Wrobel at their May 2009 meeting. Wrobel was promoted from associate professor, with tenure, to professor of psychology, with tenure, in the College of...
Published: August 31, 2009 in Psychology
Department welcomes new anthropology professor, Megan Moore
The anthropology faculty would like to welcome to Megan Moore – new assistant professor of anthropology – to their staff. Moore earned her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, her...
Published: August 14, 2009 in Anthropology
Sociology Professor reports on Substance Abuse and Slow-Motion Disasters
Published in The Sociological Quarterly, 50 (2), Spring 2009.
Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
In this article, I focus on problem substance use as one outcome of an underlying, "slow-motion disaster"...
Published: June 5, 2009 in Sociology
Professor Draus examines the relationship between sexual behavior and crack cocaine use
The Game Turns on You: Crack, Sex, Gender, and Power in Small-Town Ohio
Published: May 11, 2009 in Sociology