Dr. Balkwell served as the discussant at one of the flagship sessions of the recent Social Structure and Emotions Conference, organized by Professors Dawn Robinson and Jody Clay-Warner, which drew 100 or more of the top scholars in sociology to the University of Georgia's campus.
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Noteworthy
- Jennifer McMahon-Howard has been awarded a Dissertation Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for her research on United States rape laws.
- Kimberly Kelly and Heather Macpherson Parrott have received Dissertation Completion Awards from the Graduate School.
- Jennifer McMahon-Howard has been named an American Dissertation Fellow by the American Association of University Women.
- Joyce Bell has been selected for the 2008-2010 class of Lilly Teaching Fellows.
- Jim Coverdill was awarded the prestigious Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship in 2008.
- Patricia Richards won the University of Georgia's Richard B. Russell Teaching Award in 2008.
- Woody Beck won the First-Year Seminar Outstanding Instructor Award in 2008.
- Linda Grant won the Graduate School Oustanding Mentoring Award for the Social and Behavorial Sciences in 2008.
- Linda Renzulli has won a M.G. Michael Award, which recognizes new initiatives in scholarship, from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia in 2008.
- Ron Simons has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to continue his longitudinal study of African-American families (the Family and Community Health Study or FACHS).
- Dawn Robinson and Jody Clay-Warner have been awarded a $717,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their research on emotional segues (“DHB Testing a Dynamic Theory of Social Emotion Using Infrared Imaging”)
- Linda Grant is the 2007 co-recipient of the Sociologists for Women in Society’s Feminist Mentoring Award. This award recognizes Linda’s years of service to the discipline and to her role in making the discipline a more hospitable place for women.
- Joyce Bell's article, "Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of 'Happy Talk'," was published in the December 2007 issue of the /American Sociological Review/.
