Sociology Graduate Program
Graduate Student Achievements
November, 2010
Travis Linnemann won an NSF Dissertation Research Award for his proposal, “Pushed to the Margins: Methamphetamine, Crime, and Inequality.” Linnemann also won the Doctoral Dissertation Research Award from the Rural Sociological Society (2010).
Ryan Alexander was awarded a research grant from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers for the project: “Pathways: Examining Onset, Persistence, and Desistence of Child Sexual Abuse among Sexually Violent Predators” (2010).
Kara Dillard’s essay “Reassessing the difference critique of deliberative democracy” was recognized as one of the top papers in the Feminist and Womens Studies Division at the 2010 National Communication Association conference, San Francisco, CA. Dillard also won the Graduate Award for Leadership and Service (2010) presented by the K-State Alumni Association.
Ryan Button was awarded the Outstanding GTA of the Year (2010), by the Golden Key International Honour Society.
Sarah Beach was awarded a Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship from the K-State Graduate School, 2010.
Egbert Zavala recently published “Emotional Abuse and Controlling Behaviors in Heterosexual Relationships: The Role of Employment and Alcohol Use for Women and their Partners” in Sociological Spectrum 30(5): 526-549; and “Deviant Lifestyles and the Reporting of Victimization to Police” in the Journal of Family Violence 25(1): 23-31, both published in 2010.
Notable Job Placements in 2010
Ben Bolender (PhD, 2010) is now a Social Demographer and Statistician at the US Census Bureau.
Terrie Becerra (PhD, 2010) is now a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Human Dimensions of Rangeland Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University.
Sarjo Sanneh Patrick (PhD, 2009) is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology at Benedict College in Columbia, SC.
Ryan Alexander (ABD, PhD expected 2011) will begin a tenure-track Assistant Professor
position at Wichita State University in January 2011.