Outlook I S ISSUE I 2005 Illinois Sociology Znaniecki Conference Draws International Speakers and Participants Florian Znaniecki was a Professor of Sociology at Illinois from 1940 to 1958. Though Professor Znaniecki was quite prolific in his scholarly career, his most famous contribution is his renowned immigration study (co-authored with W. I. Thomas), The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. In order to honor his legacy and to remain mindful of our own departmental history, we hosted The Znaniecki Conference and 6th Annual Transnational Workshop on April 21 and 22 of this year. These two days of panels and discussion were invigorating, lively, and even drew a few visitors from other university communities to our doorstep. Day 1 of the gathering was focused on Professor Znaniecki’s ideas and an extension of those ideas. Day 2 was a Transnational Workshop that remained in tune with the previous day’s proceedings by employing a theme of “Transmigration.” Therefore, we were able to observe some of the effects (direct and indirect) of Professor Znaniecki’s work not only in a historical sense, but in a contemporary one as well.

Our keynote speaker on Day 1, Professor Elzbieta Halas of the University of , opened up the days’ events with some thoughts on “ and Power.” Furthermore, Professor Halas was making a personal reconnection, as she had been a visiting scholar in our department during the 1980s. She remarked on how glad she was not only to be at the conference but also to be back in Urbana-Champaign, strolling on the Quad, and seeing old faces from her time here. Day 1 concluded with a reception of food and drink in the lobby of the Foreign Languages Building.

Professor Lily Ling of New School University opened up Day 2 for us. Her talk, “Terror and Desire in the Neoliberal Imperium,” led us into a day of presentations and discussions that would enlarge our understanding and images of the immigration experience. Professor Ling ended the conference and workshop with some concluding comments. The department was pleased to see an impressive turnout of attendees to both days of the gathering. Our goal is to certainly host more of these meetings in the future and to reach out to the university community and the wider local community as well. Therefore, we want faculty, students, locals, and alumni We are also a resource and in some respect a citizen to know that we represent that has much to offer as we do the work of Sociology. more than a department. Story by Adrian Cruz and Pictures by Jacques Tacq

Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign An Interview with Clark McPhail, Professor Emeritus

Clark McPhail was born and raised South Carolina from 1966 to 1969, in Oklahoma City. His father was a the department there decided to do blue-collar worker for the telephone more than sign petitions in support company though he worked other [of the civil rights movement.] jobs as well. His mother was a The governor of South Carolina stay-at-home mom. Professor encouraged me to carry out a study McPhail holds a Bachelor’s degree of the gatherings of protesters. So from Nazarene College, a Master’s I spent about two, three months in Degree from the University of the library ransacking journals and Oklahoma, and earned his Ph.D. card files because I was certain that at Michigan State. Before joining someplace there would be a recipe the Sociology faculty in 1969 at for a method of how to observe Illinois, he held positions at Beloit and record what people do in College in Wisconsin and at the crowds. Guess what? There wasn’t University of South Carolina. Today, one. So, for two or three months, Professor McPhail is retired and Sociological Imagination] can we [McPhail and his research retains the position of Emeritus transform our thinking. Has assistants] looked at films, we went Professor. He remains actively sociology done this for you? to train stations, airports, student involved in his research agenda of CM: It’s all a function of what unions, parks, a couple of anti-war studying collective action. As we kind of training you’ve had. [In demonstrations in Atlanta. We chatted in a campus area coffee sociology] we look at things from really began to develop a sense of shop this past summer, the good a number of different perspectives what goes on in crowds. I identified professor informed us that his and you realize that things are not the actors and what they did— research was really about the “life quite as simple as people may have anything that people did with or course of temporary gatherings.” led you to believe. So, I was drawn in relation to one another whether Indeed, this is a vital area of to sociology because I thought it was holding hands or singing or interest in Sociology and other it was a way of addressing social talking or chanting or marching. disciplines as well. The study of problems. The more I studied social gatherings is something that sociology the more I found out AC: So, if you were describing what can be insightful and helpful for all that some people can study things you do to a layperson with some of us, regardless of which direction to understand how they work. If basic education in sociology, would our jobs or interests take us. We you understand how things work you say that you study crowds? see these “temporary gatherings” then you can make them happen or CM: No, I would tell them that I in protests for and against the Iraq keep them from happening. I didn’t study the life course of temporary War, the clustering of football fans know that people could actually get gatherings. Crowds neither or desperate people in a domed paid money for doing this. describe nor explain anything. football stadium in New Orleans, So, if you talk about “temporary or perhaps in a small meeting of AC: What was the Department of gatherings,” which is [Erving] people on the Quad. And it is these Sociology here at Illinois like when Goffman’s term, the life course is kinds of matters, among others, that you arrived in 1969? the assembling process that brings Professor McPhail makes us think CM: That was during the anti-War people together. And similarly the about as we learned about his life movement. Everything was pretty dispersion process—the process that and his work in the department of laid-back. Sociology junior faculty takes people from the gathering Sociology. offices were located in a building back to where they come from. A catty--corner from a bar called fundamental sociological question AC: You transferred from a small Trino’s [now Espresso Royale in is: how is social order possible? college in Oklahoma to Nazarene Urbana]. Trino’s was a place where How do people fit their acts College in Pasadena, California in we held classes, we held office together to do things collectively 1958. That must have been quite a hours, and we even held meetings that can’t be accomplished by shift for you. of the faculty. people acting alone? CM: Oh, yeah, it was mind blowing. AC: How did you start down the AC: In your decades of doing AC: Legendary sociologists like road of studying collective action? research on “temporary gatherings,” C. Wright Mills [author of The CM: When I was at the University of continued Our Alumni This is a partial listing (since early 1990s) is there one thing that you always were repeatedly going in stopping see? cars, pulling people out, beating Jennifer Harris Requejo: postdoc, Population CM: Yeah, alternating and varied them up. Although, on occasion Research Center, UT of Texas, Austin individual and collective behavior. rescuing them and taking them to Olga Geling: Assistant Professor of Social It’s a kaleidoscope, not a blanket. the sidelines. But there was a great & Behavioral Health , Department variety of behavior going on in that of Public Health Sciences & Epidemiology, AC: So, the L.A. riots in 1992, would gathering at that intersection. University of Hawaii at Manoa. that be considered a temporary (Spencer) De Li: moved from Florida gathering? AC: Is your wife also a professor? State University to Westat CM: Oh, yeah, everybody was not CM: No, she was a stay-at-home Alin Ceobanu: Assistant Professor, doing the same thing [during those mom until the kids were in middle Department of Sociology & Center for European riots]. There was a great variety school. Then she worked at the Studies, University of Florida of behavior going on. As many as university as a secretary for a Cloe Bird: Associate Behavioral Scientist, Labor 100 people are at one intersection number of years. Then she went & Population divion and the Frederick Pardee and they’re gesturing, they’re back to graduate school herself in Graduate School, RAND laughing, they’re talking amongst Early Childhood Education and had David Schweingruber: Assistant Professor, themselves. And there’s about a second career for ten years as a Department of Sociology, Iowa State University half a dozen, maybe ten guys that kindergarten teacher. Story and Picture by Adrian Cruz Nancy Berns: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Drake University

Yang Cai: Associate Professor of Sociology, This is a partial listing Grants and Awards Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, Caldwell College

Stevens, Gillian. 2004--2006 Principal Investigator. “Trajectories of English Acquisition Leslie King: Assistant Professor, Department of among US Immigrants.” NIH, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Sociology,Smith College ($147,000). Gillian Stevens also received the “Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography” from the ASA Section on the Sociology of Population for Marwin Spiller: Assistant Professor, Department the book “America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity” (with Frank D. Bean) 2004. of Sociology, University of Maine

McConnell, Eileen Diaz. 2005 “The State of Hispanic Housing in the .” Stefan Timmerman: Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA Institute of Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame and Nueva Esperanza, Inc.($17,000, PI). Reports stemming from the funding: 2005 McConnell, Eileen Diaz. “No Place Like Home: Maria Niza Lincuanan-Galela: Associate The State of Hispanic Housing in , Los Angeles, and , 2003.”Research Professor of Sociology, Kent State University, report funded by Esperanza USA, McConnell, Eileen Diaz. “The Roof Over Our Heads: Trumbull Hispanic Housing in the United States.” Brief funded by Esperanza USA, June 2005. Emily Ignacio: Assistant Professor of Sociology, POSTER, WINIFRED, 2005 “Ethnography of the University Program, University of Illinois, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Course Development Award ($4,000). 2005 – Paper Award, Governing the Global Workplace Washington at Tacoma Symposium, University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Industrial Relations Center, and the Carlson School of Management ($5,000). Eri Fujieda: Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College SWICEGOOD, GRAY NIH 2001-2006 grant for “Immigration and changes in US Fertility” ($758,000). Aya Ezawa: Visiting Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, MARSHALL, ANNA received a research board grant for 2004-5 from UIUC “The Controversial Swathmore College of Lawyers and Legal Strategies in the Environmental Justice Movement.” Book in print Anne Herda-Rapp: Assistant Professor of Confronting Sexual Harassment The Law and Politics of Everyday Life Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Marathon Anna-Maria Marshall Series: Law, Justice and Power, 2005. County

Jung, Moon- Kie had a fellowship with the UIUC Center for Democracy in a Multiracial M. Casey Condon: Adjunct Professor of in 2004-5. Sociology, Portland State University

Zerai, Assata 2003--2004 fellowship at the National Development and Research Institutes. Marcia Bellas: Professor, Department of In addition Dr. Zerai received a 2003-4 fellowship from the UIUC Center for Democracy in a Sociology, University of Cincinnati Multiracial Society. Ken Gu: State Department of Education, Rhode Ishizawa, Hiromi received an ASA Children & Youth section award, 2005 and the UIUC Island Znaniecki Paper Award, 2005. Khalida Malik: Programme Manager, The United Grbic, Douglas , 2005 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Sociology: Nations World Food Programme The Beslow Graduate Paper Award From the Head’s Desk

Welcome to the Fall 2005 issue of the discipline. To further reflect on Sociological Outlook, which, after his legacy, the Department hosted a hibernation of a few years, has an academic conference in his restarted with renewed energy. honor on April 21, 2005 in tandem It has been over a year since I with our Transnational Seminar (see assumed the headship duties in the Adrian Cruz’s report for a detailed Department of Sociology. While coverage of the latter of the two the economic situation in the State successful events). of Illinois hasn’t been supportive in the past several years, with the Nostalgia seems to linger on this current fiscal year being flat again, year. In September, Professor I must say that I am fortunate to Rita Simon, a former member and visit our homepage at http://www. be blessed with the rich tradition head of the Department, now of soc.uiuc.edu. Collectively, they of the Department (which includes American University, visited the represent our strength in the everyone of you) and with the campus and gave a series of talks. four areas of Social Dynamics and support of our faculty, students and (Being a 20-year resident in Urbana Structure, Race, Class and Gender, staff. from the early 60s to the early 80s, and Technology, and she even went by her old house on Transnational Studies. To celebrate this rich sociological Busey.) Clark McPhail, Professor heritage of the department, we Emeritus but still active in research, Before writing in this column this held a Znaniecki Day on September whom many of you may remember, time next year, I would like to hear 10, 2004, to commemorate the 50th is the recipient of the 2005 George from you. Please share with us your anniversary of Florian Znaniecki’s Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime whereabouts, recent activities, and Presidential Address at the Achievement from the Society for memorable events as I am sure your American Sociological Association the Studies of Symbolic Interaction fellow alumni would like to hear annual meeting (right here in (see report in the newsletter). Well, about you. Because Fall 2007 will Lincoln Hall Theater!). Florian the faculty composition today is mark the Department’s centennial was an illustrious Illinois sociology rather different from the time when for which we will be planning a professor in the Department from you were here. Space limit doesn’t reunion, we would also like to hear 1940 to 1958 when he died, leaving allow an individual introduction your suggestions for a successful a tremendous intellectual legacy to of them. So I encourage you to event. For now, have a wonderful year! Tim Liao DUGS Update by Kimberly Kendall Welcome to the Department Newsletter. Appearing each Fall semester, this newsletter will include developments, innovations and events within the Sociology Department. It is intended as a partial record of the academic pursuits, intellectual debates and indeed with which sociologists here at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Sociology Department are engaged, as well as a space of acknowledgement for the many awards and other successes of those within that community. This is an exciting time for our undergraduate program. We are currently serving more than 500 undergraduates as majors minors with faculty and instructors who are consistently named on the University’s List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by their Students. The Spring 2005 list included a record number of our excellent teachers with a grand total of 14! In addition, our Department continues to be well regarded in the profession for the quality of research published by its members. You can find specific award and publication information in the “Grants and Awards” section of this newsletter. You will also find an interesting feature profile on a recent undgraduate Durant Bunch. He is one of the many undergraduate success stories we have. And, we hope you take the opportunity to tell us YOUR story by contacting us. Please take a moment to send us the information indicated on the back page and contact me directly by emailing [email protected] if you would like to be featured in future newsletters. Albert Einstein said it best, “Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations.” DGS Review

I took over the responsibilities of Gainesville, FL) being Director of Graduate Studies Xavier Escandell, “Contextual from the capable hands of Dr. David Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Hopping this summer. He left the Regional Differences in Southern graduate program in great shape. Europe” (Assistant Professor, The recently entering graduate University of Northern Iowa, Cedar classes are marked by geographic Falls, IA) diversity with students coming from Maxim Koupovykh, “The around the world — China, Japan, Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Turkey, Korea — and from across the Intellectual History of the Tartu United States. The entering students School of Semiotics?” (Research are also diverse with respect to Associate, Swarthmore College, PA) their academic backgrounds: they Institutes of Health, the Center for Jong-Young Kim, “Hybrid hold undergraduate degrees (and Migration Studies at the University Modernity: The Scientific in some cases, graduate degrees) in of California at San Diego, as well as construction of Korean Medicine in English, Biology, Neurophysiology, the UIUC Graduate College. a Global Age” (Seoul, Korea) Journalism and Political Science. Diane Muehl, “An Analysis of Our graduate courses and Even better, our most recent Medicare: How well is it serving specialties in Race and Inequality, PhD graduates are moving into it’s constituencies?” (Assistant Social Dynamics, Transnational postdoctoral and professorial Professor, State University of New Studies, and Science & Technology positions in academe and into York, Canton NY) have been enriched by the wealth professional research positions. Amit Prasad, “ of of experience brought in by our In 2004 and early 2005, the Technoscience: A Study of Magnetic new graduate students. department awarded doctoral Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research degrees to the students listed in the United States and India” Our more senior graduate students, below. Their names, titles of (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of who are engaged in the preparation their dissertations and academic New Mexico, Albuquerque NM) or completion of their dissertation positions are: MaryAlice Wu, “A Comparison research are doing particularly Alin Ceobanu. “Public of Certified Nurse-Midwives in Two well. They have been successful Sentiment on Immigrants and Locations, the Freestanding Birth in earning prestigious predoctoral Immigration Policies in Central and Center and the Hospital” (Computer fellowships and awards from Eastern Europe: A Cross-National Instruction Specialist, University of institutions such as the National Multilevel Analysis” (Assistant Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL) Professor, University of Florida, Gillian Stevens Lincoln Hall Links

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Durant Bunch II is a recent I did not want to take the Graduate in the Department offer. Still, to this date, I try of Sociology completing his to contact this employer and degree in May of 2005. Here we have a solid relationship is his story. but there’s just not any room to bring me on board. So, the most challenging part of I recently graduated from with that said, persistence my first “real job” is to change the University in May 2005 as well as following through my attitude and think of the with a BA in Sociology after when opportunities present job as a career and not just a working hard for five years themselves is the key to part time job that I can quit to finish my degree. Upon landing a job. any time I feel. Also, to those the end of my semester at the of you worried about salary, University, I attended many Now, I am currently working typically expect to earn an career fairs and I was able to as an Admissions Advisor average of $30,000/year for get a vast amount of contacts for an online University an entry level position as it from various employers whom that actually contacted was the toughest thing for I stayed in contact with. A me via monster.com. I am me to swallow throughout lot of doors opened up and responsible for interviewing, my job search. Many of the some of them closed along assessing and enrolling positions that are paying the way, but because of my students into our accelerated more in the entry level are persistence in hounding my degree programs. For a sales and you have to work contacts, I was able to land change I don’t have to worry extra hard just to advance. In quite a few interviews. One about bringing my work conclusion, I would suggest huge corporation was really (homework) home with me or students coming out of school impressed with me as a have to worry about studying to expect the above salary candidate for their position and cramming for exams, and to more so concentrate and gave me a deadline to but instead I have to treat on stability within a get back with them. However, this position as a career and company and not necessarily I was a day late and gave really be consistent with my compensation and to be them the impression that professionalism. Probably persistent in your search. Summer Interns in Costa Rica 2005

Devastating mudslide destroys three homes in Baha De Meco: refugee village.

Undergrads Danielle Borost and Cynthia Chapman brave the rainy season The Mighty active Volcano Arenal with smiles in La Fortuna Graduate Feature Profile

It is very hard to greatly from the guidance of California at San Diego condense in a few paragraphs of a dedicated dissertation not only was an outstanding everything that I have advisor and committee as institution placed in an idyllic learned and experienced well as the generous funding setting but also at CCIS I during my six years living in from various centers and met many researchers from Urbana-Champaign. During institutions (such as the different disciplines interested these years I have not only European Union Center, in immigration who greatly completed my Ph.D and got Center of Iberian and Latin helped me think through my ready for the job market but American Studies and project. more importantly I met the the Graduate College at I have recently woman who was to become the University of Illinois accepted a tenure track my wife, built a community at Urbana--Champaign as position as an assistant of life-long friends, and even well as from the Center for professor at the University improved my tennis forehand. Comparative Immigration of Northern Iowa. I am My interest in Sociology Studies at the University of particularly excited by began at the University of California, San Diego). UIUC the position because the Barcelona through a very also gave me the opportunity University hosts a research innovative and stimulating to come into contact with center called the Iowa Center program. During my great researchers and social for Immigrant Leadership and undergraduate education in scientists such as the ones Integration with which I am Spain I learned the value of working at ATLAS (Applies becoming actively involved. I sharing ideas with scholars Technologies for Learning in am beginning a new research and colleagues from all the Arts and Sciences at UIUC) project on attitudes towards over the world. I came to who became among my best immigration in the Midwest as appreciate this even more friends. I see many parallels with the when I began the doctoral The UIUC sociology situation in Southern Europe. program here at UIUC. program also encouraged me In addition to this new project The program gave me the to continue my education and comes what I expect will be opportunity to come into establish contacts abroad. I the most challenging one: contact with a very global followed Tim Liao to England my wife and I are eagerly epistemic community formed and spent some time in expecting our first child in by an internationally diverse Essex learning Hierarchical early January. body of faculty and graduate Linear Modeling. I also by Xavier Escandell students. UIUC has been an spent time in Italy at the ideal setting to undertake European University Institute my research thanks to this in Florence and the Juan dynamic and stimulating March Institute in Madrid, intellectual community. My institutions that helped research project focused on enormously with the data the institutional, economic collection for my dissertation. and demographic forces Lastly, the pre-doctoral behind the changing dissertation fellowship at attitudes towards new CCIS allowed me the luxury migrants in the context of to work full-time on my Southern Europe. I benefited dissertation. The University We Would Like To Know About You We would like to know about your current activities and the developments in your life and career that you would like to share with others in future editions of this newsletter. You may include pictures for use in future issues. Also, if you know of someone who would like the newletter and is not receiving it, please send us their address.

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