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SPRING 2018 SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTERDEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY – SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALEA NOTE FROM THE CHAIRDear Alumni and Friends,a memorable one for ourI am happy to report thatthe SIUC Sociology departmentstudents. As you will see they aredoing a great job.has done a great job this yearI’d like to thank theand is looking forward to an evenfaculty, students, and staff forbetter future. The faculty andtheir contributions in keeping thegraduate students have beendepartment lively and relevant. Iquite productive: publishing inwould like to specifically thankjournals, writing books, presentingJudy Rose, our office manager,at national andand ChasityregionalShea, formeetings,serving on“The faculty andgraduate studentseditorial boards,have been quiteand contributingto committees.productive”Please seegetting usthrough theday and ourstudentworkers, JoeMcLaughlinbelow for the list of professionaland Jeremiah Beasley. I alsoaccomplishments. SIUC Sociologywant to thank Dr. Kristen Barbercontinues its tradition as aand Rebecca Bolinski for editingresearch-oriented, PhD grantingthis newsletter. Finally, I want todepartment with a nationalthank our alumni for yourreputation.generous monetary contributionsBelow you will seemessages from ourUndergraduate Director (JessicaHIGHLIGHTSFROM THEDEPARTMENT OFSOCIOLOGYDr. Barber earnedtenure and wasawarded sabbatical.Dr. Crowe works onmulti-departmentalgrant doing surveyresearch.Dr. Whaley receivedGraduate FacultyMentor Award ofExcellence.Derek Lehmanaccepted a tenuretrack job at TarletonState University.and your time in making ourprogram a success.Sincerely,Crowe) and Graduate Director(Rachel Whaley) about ourprograms and students. Thedirectors have been working hardWilliam F. Danaherto make the university experience2017-2018Thank you to Dr. WilliePearson, Jr., for yourcontinued support ofour department!
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleA WORD FROM THE GRADUATE DIRECTORThis has been anCeresola (Hartwick College), Kristi(Shuemaker) Phillis and Derekespecially exciting year in ourBrownfield (Northern University),Lehman, and one M.A. student,graduate program. Our graduateBill Lovekamp (Eastern IllinoisRebecca Bolinski, who will bestudents are presenting their workUniversity), Bob Jenkot, (Coastaljoining the Ph.D. program in theat regional and nationalCarolina University), Saiful Islamfall. Derek is heading to Tarletonconferences, garnering awards,(Minnesota State University,State University for a tenure trackengaging in professional serviceMankato), and Justin MartinAssistant Professor position.work, publishing their research,(University at Tennessee, Martin).Marcie is currently a Communitywinning fellowships, andDuring the 2017-2018 academicAdvocate for WellCare/Harmonyobtaining tenure-track andyear, graduate students gaveHealth Plans of Illinois andvisiting professor positions. In 2017,papers at conferences for theteaches part-time at Augustanatwo students were awarded theAmerican Society of Criminology,College. Our former M.A. studentDissertation Researchthe American SociologicalTony Silva, who attendedAssistantship (DRA) including,Association, the SouthernUniversity of Oregon for his PhD,Derek Lehman for his research,Sociological Society, and the SIUwas awarded a SPAN (SexualitiesGendered Horizontal and VerticalWomen, Gender, and SexualProject at Northwestern)Inequality: A Multilevel Analysis ofStudies Conference. Our ownPostdoctoral Scholar position forthe Effects of Religious ContextTrisha Crawshaw won first place2018-2020. We’re proud ofon Gender Attitudes, Women’sat the WGSS conference for hereveryone’s accomplishments.Positional Attainment, andpresentation, “As We ComeGendered ReligiousMarching:” Framing Amplificationcohort of 7 graduate students forparticipation,” and Debaleenaand Transformation through2018-2019. Two incoming studentsGhosh for her project,Songs and Poetry, co-authoredwere awarded the M.A. ResearchExperiences of Immigrant Facultywith our Chair, Dr. Bill Danaher.Fellowship, and one wasin the American Academy:Trisha also won the COLAawarded the Graduate Dean’sGender, Race and NationalOutstanding Graduate TeachingFellowship for the Ph.D. program.Origin in the Workplace. KoreyAward for Ph.D. students.Phelan, recently ABD, wasOur students continue toWe will have a newWe are excited to get to knowour new students!awarded the DRA for the 2018-be active researchers. Several2019 year for her project, Strainstudents have published in thegrateful for the support weand delinquency on Indianlast year, including Derek Lehmanreceive from alums and otherreservations: Applying an(with Dr. Sherkat), Clay Awsumbfriends. Your generous giftsintegrated general strain theory(with David Kauzlarich), Trishaenable our students to travel toto Indigenous youth.Crawshaw, and Yurinoconferences, fund research, andKawashima (with Dr. Niu, Dr.pay summer stipends, which helpM.A. and Ph.D. studentsHirudayaraj, and Dr. Sims). Manythese junior scholars to achieveattended the Midwestothers are working towardthe kinds of honors we are ableSociological Society meeting inpublication.to tell you about each year.In March 2018, 8 currentMinneapolis, and we met up withat least 6 alumni, including RyanWe expect to graduatetwo Ph.D. students, MarciePage 2Finally, we continue to beRachel Whaley, Ph.D.Graduate Director
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleA LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIESFrom presenting at professional meetings to putting together their own conference, our sociologyundergraduates have been very productive this year. In honor of Women’s History month, theUndergraduate Sociology Club hosted a panel of presentations from several women faculty andgraduate students in the sociology department. Presenters included Dr. Rachel Bridges Whaley, who gavea talk on “Gender Subjectivities Quantified: Understanding Views of Our Gendered Selves,” and Ipresented on “The Impact of Shale Development on Farmers: How the Size and Location of Farms Matter.”Three doctoral graduate students also presented: Neeraja Kolloju with her talk, “’My Dick, My Choice’:Men’s Retort to Feminism via YouTube,” Trisha Crawshaw presented “‘As We come Marching:’ FramingAmplification and Transformation Through Songs and Poetry,” and Annie Johnson presented “‘Cardio?Bitch I Lift:’ Transcending Gender Boundaries Through CrossFit.” The talk was well attended, and theUndergraduate Sociology Club has plans to make this an annual tradition.One of our majors, Baylee Hudgens, presented her own work at this year’s Illinois SociologicalAssociation conference. Her paper, “The Social Problems Process Model and the Pro-Choice Movement,”was awarded 3rd place in the freshman/sophomore level student competition. Congrats to Baylee for thisgreat achievement! This year we had four students who received the Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr., AcademicExcellence in Sociology Award: Baylee Hudgens, Jessica Liberman, Shane Jordon, Elicia Hanley. Thefollowing students were inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta national sociology honor society: BayleeHudgens, Shane Jordan, Kaitlynn Miner, Elicia Hanley, Jessica Liberman, and Elena Cruz.In other news, despite lower enrollment for the entire university, we have retained roughly the samenumber of majors (40) in the Sociology department for the past 5 years. While I would always like to see thisnumber be higher, I am happy that the department’s recruiting and retention efforts have been successfulin keeping us at a healthy number of majors.Jessica Crowe, Ph.D., Undergraduate DirectorNEW SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN SOCIOLOGYJ. MARK WEHRLE DISSERTATION SCHOLARSHIPIN SOCIOLOGYThis scholarship will be awarded annually to agraduate student(s) in Sociology in support ofdissertation research on social and/or economicjustice for disadvantaged populations. The WehrleDissertation Scholarship will support graduatestudents at the end of their studies, helping them tofinish their dissertations in a timely manner.J. Mark WehrlePage 3
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleFACULTY WORKKristen Barber, Associate ProfessorPublications:Barber, Kristen and Tristan Bridges. 2017. “Marketing Manhood in a ‘Post-Feminist’ Age” Contexts16(2): 36-41.Reprinted in: Forthcoming, Men’s Lives, 10th ed, edited by Michael S. Kimmel and MichaelA. Messner. Cambridge, U.K.: Oxford University Press.Kretschmer, Kelsy and Kristen Barber. 2018. “Men at the March: Feminist Movement Boundaries andMen’s Participation in Take Back the Night and SlutWalk.” Mobilization 21(3): 283-300.Reprinted in: Forthcoming, Men’s Lives, 10th ed, edited by Michael S. Kimmel and MichaelA. Messner. Cambridge, U.K.: Oxford University Press.Presentations:Barber, Kristen. “The Women Who Make Men Possible: Heteromasculine Privilege in the Men’sGrooming Industry” Presented at the Annual American Men’s Studies Association, Minneapolis,March 2018.In the Media:Barber talks about how shifts in gender relations inform men’s commercial grooming on NPR’sMarketplace, “New Barbershops Cash in on Male Grooming Trends,” with Sam Harnett, January 16,2018.Barber talks about masculinity and class in The New York Times: “What’s the Deal with that Guy’sFluffy Hair?” by Thomas Viciguerra, December 7, 2017.Barber’s book, Styling Masculinity, is featured in the Naturally Curly post on, “10 Books That WillChange the Way You Think About Hair,” by Chelsea Johnson, October 31, 2017.Barber talks about manhood’s incompatibility with touch in MEL Magazine’s article on “CuddleParties and the Death of Platonic Male Touch,” by C. Brian Smith, August 24, 2017.KQUED San Francisco Public Radio interviews Barber about the rise of hipster barbershops: “IsMasculine Anxiety Fueling the Rise of Nostalgic Barbershops?” by Sam Harnett, August 23, 2017.Journalist Kyle Hagerty mentions Barber’s book in the Forbes.com article, “Barbershops are Backand Bucking Retail Trends,” July 6, 2017.MEL Magazine covers Barber and Bridges’ Contexts publication in “The Rise of ‘Ironic Masculinity’ inAdvertising,” by C. Brian Smith, July 6, 2017.Dr. Barber is the editor of the Culture Section of Contexts and she is on the editorial boards of Gender andSociety and Men and Masculinities.William Danaher, Professor, Department ChairPublications:Danaher, William F. and Marc Dixon. 2017. “Framing the Field: The Case of the 1969 CharlestonHospital Worker’s Strike” Mobilization 22(4):417-434.Presentations:Danaher, William and Trisha Crashaw. “Framing the Women's Movement: Framing amplificationand transformation through songs and poetry”. Presented in the session, Role of Social Media andSocial Movements at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, New Orleans, April 2018.Page 4
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleFACULTY WORK, CONT.Darren Sherkat, ProfessorPublications:Sherkat, Darren E. and Derek Lehman. 2018. “Bad Samaritans: Religion and Anti-Immigrant and AntiMuslim Sentiment in the United States” Forthcoming, Social Science Quarterly.Sherkat, Darren E. 2017. “Politics, Religion, and Confidence in Science.” Politics and Religion. 10:137160.Sherkat, Darren E. 2017. “Intersecting Identities and Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the UnitedStates.” Social Currents. 4:380-400.Dr. Sherkat is on the editorial boards of Social Science Research, Sociology of Religion, Social Currents, andJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion.Chris Wienke, Associate ProfessorPresentations:Wienke, Chris. “Accounting for Serial Marriage and Cohabitation: An Exploration of the BiographicalStories of Men and Women who have been Married or Lived with a Partner Three or More Times.”Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA, April 2018.DR. WHALEY SELECTED FOR GRADUATE FACULTY MENTORAWARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTSDr. Whaley is in her 7th year as Director ofGraduate Studies. She was awarded theGraduate Faculty Mentor Award of Excellence in2018 for the College of Liberal Arts andapproved to continue a second year as the MSSChair of the Status of Women in the ProfessionCommittee. At the last meeting, Whaleyorganized two workshops: one on being anacademic and one on mentoring with specialattention to the challenges women face, inaddition to presenting both current research withgraduate student Trisha Crawshaw and on theteaching of gender as a social construction.Whaley published a paper in SociologicalPerspectives with former MA student Tony Silva in2017 (online first) and is currently working on twopapers with other graduate students. With ateam from SIU, Whaley submitted a grant titled“Increasing Participation and Opportunities forWomen Entrepreneurs and Researchers atSouthern Illinois University (IPOWERS)” to theNational Science Foundation.[Cite your source here.]Page 5
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleGRADUATE STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTSRebecca Bolinski, MA StudentPresentations:Bolinski, Rebecca. “Media Framing of Drug Crises in the United States”. Presented in the session,Media Frames and Social Issues at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Minneapolis,March 2018.Trisha Crawshaw, Ph.D. StudentPublications:Crawshaw, Trisha. (forthcoming). “Truth, Justice, Boobs: Gender in the Comic Book Community”.Advanced Gender Research. 26.Crawshaw, Trisha. (2017). “Girls Rock the Stage and Smash the Patriarchy”. Contexts. 16(3): 60-62.Presentations:Crawshaw, Trisha and Rachel Whaley. “Gender Subjectivities Quantified: Understanding Views of OurGendered Selves”. Presented in the session, Gender Roles, Gendered Culture and GenderSubjectivities at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, March 2018.Crawshaw, Trisha. “You Might Need a Cat and Other Things I Learned in Grad School”. Presented ona professionalization panel at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, March2018.Crawshaw, Trisha. “As We Come Marching: Framing Amplification and Transformation Through Songsand Poetry”. Presented on Women Researchers Panel at Undergraduate Sociology Club WomenResearchers in Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 2018.Crawshaw, Trisha. “As We Come Marching: Framing Amplification and Transformation Through Songsand Poetry”. Presented at the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Conference, Southern Illinois University,Carbondale, March 2018.Awards:College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduate Instructor.First Place at the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Conference at Southern Illinois University,Carbondale.Debaleena Ghosh, Ph.D. StudentPresentations:Ghosh, Debaleena and Kristen Barber. “Cultural Tokenism: The Effects of Gender, Race, and Ethnicityfor Immigrant Women at Work”. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American SociologicalAssociation, Montreal, Canada, 2017.Annie Johnson, Ph.D. StudentPresentations:Johnson, Annie. “I’m Not Trying to be a Boy:” Redefining Femininity at CrossFit”. Presented at theWomen, Gender, and Sexuality Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 2018.Page 6
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleGRADUATE STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, CONT.Yurino Kawashima, Ph.D. StudentPublications:McDaniel, J. T., Black, E. R., Kawashima, Y., & Koran, J. (forthcoming). “Military families and exposureto morally injurious events: Modeling generational trends in employment outcomes andcriminal behavior”. In J. T. McDaniel, E. R. Seamone, & S. N. Xenakis (Eds.), Preventing andTreating the Invisible Wounds of War: Combat Trauma and Psychological Injury (in press), NewYork, NY: Oxford University Press.Niu, Y., Hirudayaraj, M., Sims, C., & Kawashima, Y. 2018. “Lookism in the Chinese nursing industry: Acontent analysis of online recruitment advertisements". Journal of Asia-Pacific Business. 9(2): 1-18Derek Lehman, Ph.D. StudentTenure Track Job:Dr. Lehman will be joining Tarleton State University as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Coordinatorof the Pre-Ministry concentration within Sociology.Publications:Sherkat, Darren E. and Derek Lehman. 2018. "Bad Samaritans: Religion and Anti-Immigrant and AntiMuslim Sentiment in the United States" Forthcoming, Social Science QuarterlyPresentation:Lehman, Derek "Religious Contexts and Women's Material Attainment". Presented in Younger Scholarsin the Sociology of Religion Conference at the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at theUniveristy of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 2018.GRAD STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: KENDRA POSPISILPresentation:My researchPospisil,focuseson howmainstreamculturalideasof the Presentedfat body in the session, Gender Roles, GenderKendra.“EmotionallyDressingtheFat Body”.and GenderDiscriminationthe MidwestSociologicalmay shape Options,the formationand performanceofatwomen'sgenderedselves.Society Annual Meetings, Minneapolis,March 2018.I am concerned with how this formation of self—and how women feelabout their bodies—shapes the emotional and aesthetic labor of workersin plus size retail stores. Also, I ask: how do these workers’ interactions withcustomers impact their own bodies? And do the workers confront issues ofsizeism while working in a store dedicated to plus size women, beauty,and fashion? I am critically examining the intersecting impact of raceand perceptions of health. My future goal is to conduct a mixed methodsanalysis using ethnographic observation, online ethnography, qualitativeinterviews, and demographic based surveys. I have IRB approval andhave begun collecting preliminary data. My preliminary findings suggestthat the company, management, and customers all expect retail workersto perform a certain level of emotional and aesthetic labor. Additionally,online analysis demonstrates that although body positive language isused, the mainstream pressure to have an hourglass shape highlighting asmall waist and curves in the “right places” persists in the marketing ofplus size companies that otherwise promote of body positivity. I lookforward to continuing exploring this as well as related topics.Page 7
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleSNAPSHOTS FROM CONFERENCE MEETINGSRecent alums and current students get together at the2018 Midwest Sociological Society ConferenceFrom Left to Right: Trisha Crawshaw, Dr. Ryan Ceresola,Derek Lehman, Dr. Rachel Whaley, Dr. Kristi Brownfield,Becki Tuxhorn, and Annie JohnsonDr. Barber presents her work at the 2018American Men’s Studies AssociationConferenceDr. Barber serves on a panel at the 2018 American Men’sStudies Association Conference. From Left to Right: TristanBridges, Brandon A. Jackson, Kristen Barber, and EdwardFloresRecent graduate Dr. Saiful Islam, with Dr. Rachel Whaley,Trisha Crawshaw, and Annie Johnson at the 2018 MSSConferenceSIUC Alumni Dr. Bill Lovekamp, Dr. Saiful Islam, and Dr.Bob Jenkot at the 2018 MSS ConferencePage 8
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleHAPPENINGS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE SOCIOLOGY CLUBUNDERGRADUATEACCOMPLISHMENTSThis past November, the Clubattended the Illinois SociologicalAssociation Conference in Decatur,IL, where our treasurer, BayleeHudgens, placed 3rd in theirundergraduate paper competition.In March, we hosted our first annualWomen Researchers in Sociologyevent, in honor of women’s historymonth. In April, we were active in thestudent elections taking place,hosting additional debates for notonly the Undergraduate StudentGovernment presidential candidates,but also the SIUC student trustee.Three of our club members arerecipients of the Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr.,Undergraduate students at the 2017 Illinois Sociological AssociationConferenceFrom Left to Right: Kaitlyn Miner, Kathryn Barbour, Baylee Hudgens,and Jessica LibermanAcademic Excellence in Sociologyscholarship (Baylee Hudgens,Kaitlynn Miner, and JessicaLiberman). Club member Elena Cruzpresented at this year’s WGSSconference on "Transitions andTransformations"; she presented herresearch "Performing Otherness: AnAdrian Piper Discussion" with fellowstudent Elizabeth Fahey. The Clubalso volunteered at the conference,directing traffic and assistingevaluators.Jessica Liberman, PresidentUndergraduate Sociology ClubBaylee Hudgens wins 3rd place in the undergraduatepaper competition at the 2017 Illinois SociologicalAssociation ConferencePage 9
Department of Sociology – Southern Illinois University CarbondaleBROWN BAGS IN SOCIOLOGYAlfred Frankowski – Wednesday, February 14, 2018“State Memory, Lynching Histories, and Mourning”Later this year, the museum, From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration will open in Montgomery, Alabamaand it will be our nation’s first comprehensive memorial to the history of American anti-black violence. Thememorial, For Peace and Justice will be our nation’s first memorial to the history of lynching. In thispresentation, I will explore how these memorials force us to confront tensions between the politics ofmemory and present state violence in unique ways. This paper will explore and challenge the relation ofstate memory to anti-black violence as not only a mode of reconciliation but also as a reconfiguration ofthe political through a sense of mourning.Adia Harvey Wingfield – Wednesday, February 28, 2018“New Economy, New Inequalities: Race and Health Care Work in a Neoliberal Era”Adia Harvey Wingfield joined Washington University as Professor of Sociology in the fall of 2015. She was onthe sociology faculty of Georgia State University from 2006 through 2015. Professor Wingfield received aPh.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. She specializes in research that examines the waysintersections of race, gender, and class affect social processes at work. In particular, she is an expert onthe workplace experiences of minority workers in predominantly white professional settings, andspecifically on black male professionals in occupations where they are in the minority. Dr. Wingfield haslectured internationally on her research in this area, and her research has been published in numerouspeer-reviewed journals including Social Problems, Gender & Society, Qualitative Sociology, and AmericanBehavioral Scientist. She is the author of several books, most recently the award-winning No More InvisibleMan: Race and Gender in Men's Work (Temple University Press). Professor Wingfield teaches classes onrace, gender, social theory, and work, that encourage students to wrestle with the ways that intersectionsof race, gender, and class are institutionalized in various social spheres like media, the workplace, schools,and in public spaces.Derek Lehman, SIUC Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate – Wednesday, April 11, 2018“Navigating Academic Interviews”Derek Lehman recently secured an Assistant Professor position at Tarleton State University. In this talk, hewill discuss what current graduate students can expect on the job market. Lehman uses both his Zoomand on-campus interviews as a sort of case study of interviewing for a teaching intensive tenure-trackposition. Along with reviewing the timeline for the process, from first contact to contract negotiations,Lehman will provide the questions he was asked by the search committee and suggest a few strategies forpreparing for interviews, like reviewing the university’s mission statement and strategic action plan.Overall, attendees will receive real-world examples they can use in preparation for their own interviews.Lisa Young – Friday, April 27, 2018“The Medical Activism of Gwendolyn Brooks; Or, The Social Afterlife of the Restrictive Covenant”This talk investigates the “health politics” and medical activism of Black women writers and journalists whoframed restrictive covenants as environmentally hazardous agents in the lives of Black residents. Itanalyzes how the legacy of the restrictive covenant expanded outside of urban areas in the North andWest by giving way to discriminatory institutions such as predatory health insurance policies, theprivatization of city water services, and the modern-day surveillance state. In particular, it reframesGwendolyn Brooks’ novel, Maud Martha (1940), as a response to covenants, water restrictions, andracialized beliefs about the Black body as a contagion prone to spreading diseases.Page 10
fall. Derek is heading to Tarleton State University for a tenure track Assistant Professor position. Marcie is currently a Community Advocate for WellCare/Harmony Health Plans of Illinois and teaches part-time at Augustana College. Our former M.A. student Tony Silva, who attended University of Oregon for his PhD, was awarded a SPAN (Sexualities
