Assistant Professor Micki McGee comments on the rise of digital humanities for Inside Higher Education

Assistant Professor Micki McGee was quoted in a story on “The Promise of Digital Humanities” in Inside Higher Ed on September 28, 2001.

Professor Jeanne Flavin speaks out on reproductive and social justice

Professor Jeanne Flavin

Professor Jeanne Flavin's article “On Reproductive Justice and the Importance of Listening to People with Whom We Disagree” appeared the September-October 2011 edition of Footnotes, a publication of the American Sociological Association. Professor Flavin also gave a plenary talk at Fordham's Graduate School of Social Services "Pedagogy, Human Rights, and Social Justice" conference on September 19th entitled "Why We (Still) Can't Wait: The Everyday Pursuit of Social Justice."

David Woods (Ph.D. 2009) is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Connecticut State University. David’s dissertation, a work in urban sociology, was based on his participation in neighborhood and city groups in the rebuilding of lower Manhattan after 9/11. His book on this topic, Democracy Deferred: Civic Leadership after 9/11, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in spring 2012.

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez's co-authored volume published in new Chinese edition

Professor Clara E. Rodriguez’s co-authored book, The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century, was published in Chinese by Stanford University Press and Renmin Press, 2011.

Professor Emily Rosenbaum continues health and housing research with MacArthur Foundation support

Professor Emily Rosenbaum is in the second of three years of funding from the MacArthur Foundation’s program, “How Housing Matters.” With co-principal investigator Earle Chambers of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she is fielding a survey in the south and west Bronx aimed at understanding how receiving rental housing subsidies may influence the cardiovascular health of low-income Latinos. The project has employed many Fordham College at Rose Hill undergraduates as interns, providing them with the opportunity to learn about social science research firsthand, and – often with funding from the FCRH Dean’s office – to conduct their own research on the connection between housing/neighborhoods and health.

Professor Rosenbaum is also a member of the Russell Sage Foundation’s US2010 project, the Foundation’s decennial research program for Census 2010. Her contribution to the project consists of three inter-related projects: an analysis of trends and differentials in home ownership during the 2000s, with a particular emphasis on the differential effects of the recession and housing market crisis; an analysis of trends and differentials in housing and neighborhood quality since 2000; and an analysis of the housing careers of birth cohorts from 1970 to 2010.

Associate Professor Evelyn Bush continues publishing on religion, gender, and the public sphere

Dr. Evelyn Bush

Associate Professor Evelyn Bush’s article, “Explaining Religious Market Failure: A Gendered Critique of the Religious Economies Model,” was published in Sociological Theory, Vol. 28, Issue 3 (Sept. 2010): 247–354. Her book chapter, “Religious Freedom and Transnational Religion: An Economic Approach,” was published in Religious Actors in the Public Sphere, eds. Jeffrey Haynes and Anja Henning.

 With the assistance of two Fordham graduate students, Dr. Bush recently completed the construction of a dataset of international religious human rights NGOs, which is soon to be published in the online Association of Religion Data Archives (www.arda.com).

Dr. Bush is currently on sabbatical, completing the second year of a three-year research project housed at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, with co-principal investigators Jeremy Carrette and Hugh Miall). The project, entitled Religious NGOs at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, was awarded a £500,000 grant from the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Assistant Professor Heather Gautney and Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg received a grant for $6,900 from the American Sociological Association

Assistant Professor Heather Gautney and Associate Professor Chris Rhomberg received a grant for $6,900 from the American Sociological Association’s Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, supported by the ASA and the National Science Foundation. The grant, announced in September 2011, will go to support their research project entitled “Beyond the Media Capital: Flexible Specialization and De-agglomeration in the U.S. Film Industry.”

Assistant Professor Orit Avishai's analysis of breastfeeding published in recent anthology

Assistant Professor Orit Avishai's chapter on “Managing the Lactating Body: Breastfeeding in the Age of Anxiety,” appeared in the volume Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices: A Cross Cultural Perspective, edited by Pranee Liamputtong (Springer, 2011).