Sociology Department
6104 Silsby Hall, Room 111
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-2554
Fax: (603) 646-1228

Chair
Kathryn J. Lively
(Kathryn.J.Lively@Dartmouth.edu)

Department Administrator
Judy Danna
(Judy.Danna@Dartmouth.edu)

Department News

Thanks to an appointment by Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, Andrew Longhi '14, who is a double major ({1} Sociology modified with Women's and Gender Studies and {2} Government), now has a voice in policymaking in the Green Mountain State. Shumlin recently named Longhi to the Children and Family Council for Prevention Programs of Vermont. The 21-member advisory group meets monthly in the state capital of Montpelier, working to improve health for families, children, and communities.  This news was featured in Dartmouth Now.

Jason Houle, who is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be joining the Department as of July 1, 2013 as an Assistant Professor.

On December 21, CNN Opinion posted "Privacy worries go far beyond e-mails" by Denise Anthony.

Summer 2012: Kathryn Lively was a finalist for the 12th Annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. She received the nomination for the article "Equity, Emotion, and Household Division of Labor" co-written with Lala Steelman and Brian Powell and published in Social Psychology Quarterly.

Marc Dixon received the John M. Manley Huntington Award for Newly Tenured Faculty in June.

Visiting Assistant Professor Kristin Smith (13W, Women, Work and Family, Socy 61) has a new book, Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America, co-edited with Ann Tickamyer. It explores how rural families have coped with changes in the economy, and offers policy recommendations for addressing the challenges facing rural families and communities.

Marc Dixon was part of a November VPR's Vermont Edition in-depth discussion that explored the idea of how the middle class is defined in America.  This was featured in Dartmouth Now.

• Sandstrom, Kent, Kathryn J. Lively, Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine. 2013. "Interactionist Approaches to the Study of Emotion:  Emotion in Everyday Life." In Symbols, Selves, and Social Reality. 4th edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Lively, Kathryn J. 2013. "Social and Cultural Influences: Gender Effects on Emotion Labor at Work and at Home." In Alicia Grandey, James A. Diefendorff, and Deborah Rupp (Eds.). Emotional Labor in the 21st Century: Diverse Perspectives on Emotion Regulation at Work. New York, NY: Psychology Press/Routledge.
• Patsiurko, Natalka, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall. 2012. "Measuring Cultural Diversity: Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization in the OECD." Ethnic and Racial Studies 35(2)195-217.
• Dixon, Marc and Andrew W. Martin. 2012. "We Can't Win This on Our Own: Unions, Firms, and Mobilization of External Allies in Labor Disputes." American Sociological Review 77:946-969.
• Appari, Ajit, M. Eric Johnson, and Denise L. Anthony. 2012. "Meaningful Use of EHR Systems and Process Quality of Care: Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of US Acute-Care Hospitals." Health Services Research. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01448.x
• Appari, Ajit, Emily K Carian, M Eric Johnson, Denise L Anthony. 2011. "Medication administration quality and health information technology: a national study of US hospitals."  Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.  19 (3): 360-367. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000289
• Walton, Emily. 2012. "Resurgent Ethnicity among Asian Americans: Ethnic Neighborhood Context and Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 53: 378-394.
• Koji Ueno, Eric R. Wright, Matthew Gayman, and Janice McCabe. 2012. "Segregation in Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth's Personal Networks: Testing Structural Constraint, Choice Homophily, and Compartmentalization Hypotheses." Social Forces 90(3):971-991.
• Hollister, Matissa N. 2011. "Employer and Occupational Instability in Two Cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys" The Sociological Quarterly. 53(2): 238-263.
• Hollister, Matissa N. 2011. "Employment Stability in the U.S. Labor Market: Rhetoric vs. Reality." Annual Review of Sociology 37(1):305-324.
• Kail, Ben Lennox and Marc Dixon. 2011. "The Uneven Patterning of Welfare Benefits at the Twilight of AFDC: Assessing the Influence of Institutions, Race, and Citizen Preferences." The Sociological Quarterly 52:376-99.
• Nyweide, DJ, DL Anthony, CH Chang, D Goodman. 2011. "Seniors' Perceptions of Health Care Not Closely Associated with Physician Supply." Health Affairs 30 (2): 219-227.
• Janice McCabe. 2011. "Doing Multiculturalism: An Interactionist Analysis of the Practices of a Multicultural Sorority." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40(5):521-549.
• Janice McCabe, Emily Fairchild, Liz Grauerholz, Bernice Pescosolido, and Daniel Tope. 2011. "Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books: Patterns of Disparity in Titles and Central Characters." Gender & Society 25(2):197-226.
• Morgan, Glenn, John L. Campbell, Colin Crouch, Ove K. Pedersen, and Richard Whitley, editors. 2010. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.
• King, Deborah K. 2010. "Mom-in-Chief: Community Othermothering and Michelle Obama, The First Lady of the People's House," in Race in the Age of Obama, of the Research in Race and Ethnic Relations series, edited by Donald Cunnigen and Marino A. Bruce. UK: Emerald Group Publishing, Volume 16: 77-123.

2012 Sociology Prize Winners

The Sociology Department congratulates all graduating Majors and Minors.  Click here to see a list of our 2012 department prize winners announced at our annual luncheon in the Paganucci Lounge to honor our students.