Recent Graduate Student Accomplishments
2011-2 Graduate Student Publications
Sage, Rayna Amber, and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson. 2012. “Extending and Expanding Parenthood: Parental Support to Young Adult Children.” Sociology Compass 6(3):256–270.
Knight, Kyle W. and Eugene A. Rosa. 2012. “Household Dynamics and Fuelwood Consumption in Developing Countries: A Cross-National Analysis.” Population and Environment, 33(4):365-378.
Knight, Kyle W. and Benjamin L. Messer. 2012. “Environmental Concern in Cross-National Perspective: The Effects of Affluence, Environmental Degradation, and World Society.” Social Science Quarterly, 93(2):521-537.
Knight, Kyle W. and Eugene A. Rosa. 2012. “The Environmental Efficiency of Well-Being: A Cross-National Analysis.” Social Science Research, 40:931-949.
2012 Graduate Student Awards
Sage, Rayna Amber. 2011-2012. Employment and Training Research Paper Program. U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. $16,000.
Anderson, Annika. Gordon D. and Izola P. Morgan Graduate Fellowship.
http://libarts.wsu.edu/soc/scholarships/MorganGraduateFellowship.html
Thorp, Leah. WSU Global Case Competition, First Place. http://ip.wsu.edu/global/GCC.html
Thorp, Leah. WSU Sociology Department Joseph R. DeMartini Travel Grant.
http://libarts.wsu.edu/soc/scholarships/DeMartiniTravelGrant.html
Fitzgerald, Ashley Colby. 2012 Susan and Sarah Dolan Memorial Scholarship. http://libarts.wsu.edu/soc/scholarships/DolanScholarship.html
Fitzgerald, Ashley Colby. 2012 Best First Year Award.
2012 Graduate Student Presentations
Pacific Sociological Association
Collazo, Jose. “The Impact of Tourism on Mexico and the State of Oaxaca: From
Displacement to Autonomy.”
Collazo, Jose. “Authors Meet Reviewers: Cultural Resistance in the 21st Century.”
Hao, Feng. “How to Choose Your Graduate program in the U.S.”
Hao, Feng. “Ecological Degradation and the Spatial Distribution of China`s
Environmental Movement Organizations.”
Harris, Elizabeth. “The Effects of Children’s Labor Force Participation on Segmented
Assimilation Pathways.”
Makino, Yusuke. "Relational Inequality in Organizations: A Study of Job Satisfaction for
White Workers"
Torcaso, Bekah. "Shadow Mobilization: An Analysis of Biotechnology and the
Alternative-Agriculture Movement".
Sage, Rayna. “When the Only Work is Women’s Work: Changing Rural Opportunities.”.
Knight, Kyle W. “Environmental Space, International Equity, and the Environmental Efficiency of Well-Being: A Cross-National Panel Study”
American Sociological Association
Fussell, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Harris. “Housing Loss and Recovery After Hurricane
Katrina”
Hao, Feng.“Ecological Degradation and the Spatial Distribution of China`s
Environmental Movement Organizations.”
Hao, Feng. “Rationality and Irrationality: Theoretical Examination on the Treadmill of
Production.”
Trimble, Lindsey and Elizabeth Harris. “The Effect of Parental Status on Women and
Men’s Perceptions of Sex Discrimination at Work.”
Ilhan, Ali and Scott Frickel. "Persistence Among Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: a
Longitudinal Study."
Kremer, Joseph. "The Gendered Nature of Environmental Crime.”
Edwards, Michelle. “An Approach to Science Education: A Lesser Known Contribution of George Herbert Mead.”
Knight, Kyle W. “The Ecological Footprint and Life Expectancy: A Cross-National Analysis of the Environmental Efficiency of Well-Being.”
Rural Sociological Society
Sage, Rayna and Jennifer Sherman. “There Are No Jobs Here”: Opportunity Structures, Moral Judgment, and Educational Trajectories in the Rural Northwest.
Other Academic Conferences
Knight, Kyle W., Eugene A. Rosa, and Juliet B. Schor. 2011. “Work Hours, Consumption, and Climate Change: A Cross-National Panel Analysis of OECD Countries, 1970-2007.” Presented at Capitalism on Trial: A Conference in Honor of Thomas E. Weisskopf. Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, October 1.