Department of Sociology

President's Research Fellowship

Ph.D. student Mark Salvaggio was awarded a President's Research Fellowship for this year to complete his dissertation on travel and tourism development in Central America. He has collected data by backpacking through Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Crystal Jackson

Crystal Jackson, Ph.D. student, is studying the growing field of the political economy of commercial sexuality. Her dissertation Violating Sex: Narratives of Identity, Labor, & Rights in the U.S. Sex Workers Rights Movement uses theories of collective identity, social movement, and the political economy of sex to analyze how sex worker rights activists conceptualize their activism.
Honorees

The 2012 College of Liberal Arts Honors Convocation, Department of Sociology Honorees.
Summer Project

Professor Robert Futrell and Ph.D. student Mark Salvaggio visited Kazakhstan this summer to work with U.S. and Kazakh students, scholars, and citizens to study lingering social, political, and ecological effects of the Nevada Test Site and the Polygon region in northeastern Kazakhstan.

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