Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Scholarships. The American Council of Learned Societies announces a major new scholarship program to help young scholars complete their dissertations and advance their postdoctoral research. The inaugural competition for Mellon/ACLS Thesis Completion Scholarships is held in 20062007 and is open to graduate students writing dissertations in the humanities and related social sciences. This program aims to promote the timely completion of the PhD. The first Mellon/ACLS scholarship competition for recent PhD graduates will be held in 20072008. Eligibility for these 25 awards is limited to researchers who have had thesis completion awards (or who have placed well in this scholarship competition) and who have completed their thesis within the timeframe specified in their initial scholarship application. Recipients have up to two years from the date of the award to receive a scholarship. For more information, see www.acls.org/ecf.htm. The literature on humanitarian interventions is based on political events and debates rather than theoretical arguments. Is it legitimate to intervene violently to protect people and keep them alive? If so, what is the action level? Who should intervene? How can such interventions succeed and what can go wrong? The answers to these questions are firmly grounded in enduring intellectual positions on moral obligation, international law, State sovereignty and human rights.
They range from the strict prohibition of intervention to the promotion of measures. The literature also leads to new debates about the appropriate roles of international organizations and non-state actors in international affairs. Christopher Winship of Harvard pointed out the distinction sociologists make between certain general facts and truths: “If you were to tell a sociologist that he misunderstood a certain fact, he would say, `Well, it doesn`t matter, what`s important is that it`s true in a broader sense.` We can talk about a work of fiction as true or not – how would real people actually act like that? – And I think sociologists and ethnographers use it. Albert John Reiss, Jr., was born on December 9, 1922 in Cascade, WI. He interrupted his studies at Marquette University to serve as a meteorologist in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He made his way through the doctoral program in sociology at the University of Chicago and worked on a number of studies on probation, juvenile delinquency and neighborhoods, and taught at the university. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1949, he was promoted to assistant professor and moved to Vanderbilt University in 1952 as chair of the sociology department. He left Vanderbilt in 1959 and went to the University of Iowa and from there to the University of Wisconsin, before accepting the chair of sociology at the University of Michigan in 1961, where he conducted his fieldwork on policing. If Lubet had set a trap for Goffman by accusing him of a crime, it worked: with his response, Goffman seemed to confirm that she had disguised the story to make it more dramatic. And at least in this case, she seemed to have done it more for narrative effect than to obscure the identity of her subjects.
If she had observed a mourning ritual practiced by the group she was writing about, why didn`t she describe it that way? As Lubet put it in a follow-up article in The New Republic, “Goffman essentially admits that she embellished and exaggerated her account of a crucial episode, which should make even the most sympathetic readers doubt her word.” Nancy J. Davis of DePauw University was quoted in a May 13 Toronto Star article about her research with Indiana University`s Robert V. Robinson in the American Sociological Review in April. His research has focused on religious orthodoxy in Islamic countries. David R. Segal of the University of Maryland was quoted in The Record for his research on the decline of military enlistment among high school graduates. It was published in the New York Times on February 5 about today`s military recruiting mission and on February 9. He was quoted in February about his research with Mady W.
Segal on increasing conscription among Hispanics. He was quoted in the San Antonio Express News on February 6 about the success of the Texas National Guard in achieving its enlistment goals. He was quoted in the Scripps-Howard newspapers on February 16 on military conscription rules regarding hairstyles, cosmetics and jewelry. He was quoted in the Knight-Ridder newspapers on February 28 and interviewed on CBS News about polling results showing that most U.S. troops supported withdrawal from Iraq within the year. He was quoted in the Baltimore Sun on March 2 about the transition from military service to college. He was interviewed in the Washington Post on March 7 about rejected applications to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. It was published in The New York Times on March 12 and published in The New York Times on March 13.
He was quoted in the Boston Globe as saying that a vast majority of young American men did not meet minimum standards for military service. And he was interviewed in late March by Michigan Radio, Tokyo Broadcast System and teleSUR about his research on military work. I left the conversation with the feeling that there were indeed factual inaccuracies during On the Run. However, they are not the product of the kind of fraud we are used to in publishing scandals, and it would be unfair to say that they place Goffman in the company of fabulists like Stephen Glass or data cookers like Michael LaCour. This is because most of what I call “inaccuracies” were introduced in On the Run because the conventions of sociological ethnography required them. In keeping with the methodological protocols of her chosen discipline, which generally require researchers to grant complete anonymity to their subjects, Goffman altered the details and coded the facts to prevent readers from inflicting the identities of the people she was writing about. In doing so, she made it almost impossible to revise her book. Joseph De Angelis of Ohio University and Aaron Kupchik of Arizona State University published their research on the impact of police surveillance on the attitudes of citizens and officials, published in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News articles on April 19, 2006.