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Department of Sociology of Northern Illinois University

2006 Annual Student Awards and Recognition

Dean's Award: Steven Kazmierczak

Waldo J. Burchard Award: Jacob Frank

James L. Massey Social Justice Award:

Joseph Gulino

Frances Rowe Katz Awards:

Michael Barton Mishel Filisha

Jacob Frank   Courtney Kintz

Will Mingus   Michael Slavik

Joshua Stone   Jin You

David P. Street Awards:

Christopher Weaver       Christopher Janovsky

2006 Student Paper Competition Winners

Undergraduate 100-200 Level:                                       

FIRST: John Scherrer "Great is Our Sin: The Mis-measure of Race "

Undergraduate 300-400 Level:

FIRST: Curtis Disher "African-American Women as Victims of Powerlessness"

SECOND: Matthew Cousineau "Antagoism, Exploitation, and Paternalism: Sociological Paradigms of Inequality in the American Automobile Industry"

THIRD: Kathryn Chilplis "Media and Violence: Effects on Individuals Throughout the Life Course"

Graduate Level:

FIRST: Will Mingus "The Music Man on Salesmen and Politicians: Creating a Populism of Fear"

SECOND: Michael Barton "Changes in Rural Americans Society"

THIRD:Rebecca Ludens "The Realities of Deinstitutionalization: Societal Reactions and Family Response"