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Shana Gadarian Political Science
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro Economics
Colin Moore Political Science
Maria Rendon Sociology

News

Eric McDaniel (Cohort 15) is the co-recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award (with co-author Christopher Ellison) from the Western Political Science Association for their June 2008 Political Research Quarterly Article: "God’s Party? Race, Religion, and Partisanship over Time".

Rene Almeling (Cohort 15) has received an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Viviana Zelizer Award from the American Sociology Association's Section on Economic Sociology for her article "Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Donation, Sperm Donation, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material".

Helen Marrow (Cohort 15) has received the 2008 American Sociological Association Dissertation Award for the best PhD dissertation for the calendar year for, "Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South."

Tim Büthe (Cohort 14) has published, "The Globalization of Health and Safety Standards: Delegation of Regulatory Authority in the SPS Agreement of the 1994 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization" in Law and Contemporary Problems.

Robert Mickey (Cohort 13) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

Tony Chen (Cohort 12) has received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.

Seminar Series

Health and Social Science Research Seminar

Fall 2006

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August 29: Robert Anderson
"What Do We Get for Our Health Expenditures?"
August 31: No Meeting due to APSA Convention
September 5: Jonah Levy
"US Health Care and Social Protection"
September 7: Karen Albright
"Introduction and Inequalities I: Community Effects on Health"
September 12: Robert Anderson
"Markets and Market Failure in Health Care"
September 14: Jonah Levy
"US Health Care Reform in Comparative Perspective"
September 19: Joshua Guetzkow
"Inequalities II: Race and the Delivery of Health Services; and Mental Health Care and Social Control"
September 21: Enrico Moretti
"Biology as Destiny?"
September 22: Second Year Scholar Presentations
September 26: Sharon Kaufman
"Anthropology and the Culture of Medicine"
September 28: Taeku Lee
"Public Opinion and Health Care "