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Office of Inclusion and Excellence Workshop

Associate professor and Chair of the Gerontology Committee, Margaret Ralston, led an Office of Inclusion and Excellence Workshop on generational differences and the workplace.

September 27, 2024
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PhD Students Present The Inside Scoop on Teaching

PhD students Heather-Ann Layth, Megan Phillips, and Bria Young led a Brown Bag session on teaching for Sociology students and faculty on Friday, September 13th.

September 16, 2024
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Why Gen X Parents Are Afraid of the Wrong Types of Crime

Dr. Nicole Rader’s research featured in Psychology Today in her Op-Ed, “Why Gen X Parents are Afraid of the Wrong Types of Crime.”

September 9, 2024
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Dr. Hagerman receives ASA award

The American Sociological Association's Section on Children and Youth presented Dr. Margaret Hagerman with a Distinguished Early Career Award at the annual ASA meetings in Montréal.

September 6, 2024
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Diego Thompson was awarded the “Best Rural Sociology Paper”

At the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting Diego Thompson was awarded the “Best Rural Sociology Paper” for his paper “’Keeping things under the rug: Racial dynamics in the context of large immigration raids in Mississippi,” published in Rural Sociology in 2023. This paper was selected from all articles published in Rural Sociology last year. Rural Sociology is the flagship journal for the Rural Sociological Society.

July 29, 2024
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Dr. Margaret Hagerman’s new book, Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump’s America was published by NYU Press this past May.

This research examines how children learn about racism and politics in contemporary American society.

July 17, 2024
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Dr. Margaret Hagerman’s research was featured in New York Magazine

July 17, 2024
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Heather-Ann Layth Earns Honorable Mention From The American Sociological Association Section On Teaching And Learning In Sociology

Heather-Ann Layth has earned an honorable mention for her submission to the 2024 Graduate Student Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award.

June 7, 2024
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Ashley Melcherts Won One Of The Humanities Summer Support Program Awards

Mississippi State University’s Institute for the Humanities announces the inaugural Summer Support Scholars recipients—each receiving $1000 for extended summer research, simultaneously allowing the Institute to highlight graduate research at the land-grant university.

June 7, 2024
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Hostile Masculinity, Male Peer Support for Violence, and Problematic Anger: Linking Childhood Abuse to Men's Partner Violence Perpetration

Tara Sutton has a article at Violence Against Women that was published May 6, 2024.

May 8, 2024
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Undergraduate Research Symposium

Three undergraduate students, working with Dr. David May and Dr. Stacy Haynes, presented posters at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 11th.

May 3, 2024
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Making Country Cool: A Comparative Study of Peloton Instructors' Use of Country and Hip-Hop Music

Emma Huner one of our undergraduates presented research at the Mississippi State undergraduate research symposium on Thursday, April 11, 2024.

April 24, 2024