Weekly News, March 6, 2026

• Nima Dahir has been selected to receive the 2026 Alma H. Young Emerging Scholar Award from the Urban Affairs Association. Congratulations, Nima!

   

• Congratulations to Anthony Johnson who has been selected to receive the 2026 Carlos J. Vallejo Emerging Scholar Award from the Multicultural/Multiethnic Education Special Interest Group (SIG) at the American Educational Research Association. 

   

• Eric Schoon won the ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching, and service of mid-career faculty at the time of review for promotion to professor and is selected by the college promotion and tenure faculty review committee. Way to go, Eric!

   

• Tiffany Huang's article, "Translating Authentic Selves into Authentic Applications: Private College Consulting and Selective College Admissions" received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Emerging Scholar award from the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Social Science Caucus.

   

• Jack Wippell and Dana Haynie published an article on gun laws and school shootings in Social Science and Medicine.

   

• Jack Wippell and Hollie Nzitatira  published a paper on how sibling relationships shape engagement in genocidal violence in Criminology.

   

• Eric Schoon published "Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage" in Sociological Methods & Research.

   

• Steve Lopez has an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch, published Feb 13,defending the slogan "No One is Illegal on Stolen Land" as deeply patriotic.