Weekly News, March 28, 2025

• Anna Church will be beginning the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Cornell Population Center at Cornell University in the Fall of 2025. Congrats Anna! Anna has also been accepted into the 11th Annual Berkeley Workshop on Formal Demography that will take place at the University of California, Berkeley in June 2025.
• Congratulations to Candice Crutchfield who has been awarded the Graduate Student Award for Diversity Enhancement from the College of Arts and Sciences!
• Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira has received the Outreach and Engagement Community Engaged Scholar Award for her outstanding achievement in producing engaged scholarship and community impact!
• We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Alec Rhodes, 2023 OSU Sociology PhD, has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. He will move there in August 2025 after completing his postdoctoral scholar position at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Sociology of sport research by newly minted PhD's from the department, Dr. Mariah Warner and Dr. James Tompsett, was recently published, written up by OSU News, and distributed widely. Warner analyzed the prevalence of sports-related mistreatment and its determinants. Tompsett concluded his series of mixed-methods studies on who plays, persists, and stands out in high school sports. Their research was conducted in collaboration with Professor Chris Knoester.
• As part of a lecture series sponsored by the German Consulate, and numerous German research organizations, Claudia Buchmann will be giving Transatlantic Tandem Talk with Marita Jacob of the University of Cologne titled "Rising Above or Lagging Behind? Inequality in Higher Education in the U.S. and Germany". This event will be held virtually at 12 p.m. on March 26. 
• Eric Schoon was featured on the ASC Voices of Excellence podcast, where he talked about his work on legitimacy, ethnographic fieldwork, and regression modeling.
• Laura Dugan was interviewed for an article in the Ohio Capital Journal, titled "What to make of Ohio candidates invoking Jan. 6 conspiracy theories?"

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