SOCIOLOGICAL ORIGINS
News and Announcements
News and Announcements
- Mary Jo Deegan, Professor of Sociology in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was
presented with the 2007 Harriet Martineau Sociological Society Award for her many
Contributions to the History of Early Women Sociologists. The award was presented in
ceremonies during the 2007 HMSS International Working Seminar at the National
University of Ireland, Maynooth
- Sociological Origins is honored to announce its selection and licensing for worldwide
electronic distribution as part of a new full-text Sociology database marketed by EBSCO
Publishing of Ipswich, Massachusetts, a leading provider of online databases for
academic libraries. Articles appearing in Sociological Origins will soon be identifiable via
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Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti,
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Moldova, Mongolia,
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South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, and
Zimbabwe. We are excited by this international development.
- On August 15, 2005, in ceremonies at the Centennial meeting of the American
Sociological Association (ASA) in Philadelphia, Michael R. Hill and Mary Jo Deegan
received the 2005 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the ASA Section on the
History of Sociology for their edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Social Ethics:
Sociology and the Future of Society (Praeger 2004). Read the press release [PDF
18KB]. Read the statement [PDF 16 KB] by the Award Selection Committee. Read a
student reporter's newspaper story [PDF 94 KB].
- Michael R. Hill recently completed the inaugural version of the Centennial Bibliography
on the History of American Sociology. This detailed compilation is now available via the
website of the American Sociological Association as a free PDF download.
- November 4, 2005: Celebrate the centenary of Nebraska's first Ph.D. in sociology.
Mary Jo Deegan and Miichael R. Hill will present a colloquium on the 1905 doctoral
work of Anderson William Clark. 12:30 P.M., Oldfather Hall, Room 707, on the city
campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For more information, contact:
mhill@sociological-origins.com Read the related press release. [PDF 330KB]
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