September 2019

Awards 

Professor Joachim Savelsberg (Sociology) has received two awards from the Society for the Study of Social Problems: The 2019 Lee Founders Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes "devotion to the ideas of the founders of this Society, and especially to the humanistic tradition of sociology," as well as the 2019 Bi-annual Lifetime Achievement Award, Division of Crime & Juvenile Delinquency.

Grants & Fellowships

PhD candidate Lei Zhang (American Studies) has received the Hildegard & Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies. Zhang will examine the Estonian American National Council and the Joint Baltic American National Council records in the Immigration History Research Center Archive.