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Sociology Department News

John Weidner 2009 Scholarship & Award for Altruism

The Butler Student Sociology Association has formed the Butler University Chapter of the John Weidner Foundation for Altruism and will present two annual scholarships in the spring, honoring TWO Butler students for acts of altruism. One scholar will be awarded $1500 and the other around $1300.

For more information: The John Weidner Foundation for Altruism

Student Sociology Association

SSA's next volunteering opportunity takes place at Second Starts http://www.secondstarts.org/ on Saturday, February 28th beginning at 11am. All are welcome to attend. Please email Alicia Wojciechowski for carpooling information awojciec@butler.edu.

For more information: Student Sociology Association

Other News

Katie Hegarty, majoring in Sociology, taking the Spring 2007 Semester to study abroad in Rome.

Katie Hegarty at the Vatican

Congratulations to Our 2008 Graduates!

The 2007-2008 Sociology Department Award Winners!

Amanda Gates Redman - Recipient of the Jane Addams Award, given to the student who best demonstrates the relationship between sociological thought and service.
Joshua Heath Muller - Recipient of the W.E.B. Dubois Award, given to the student who has best demonstrated the application of sociology to further cultural understanding and social justice.
Lani Nicole Warner - Recipient of the Emile Durkheim Award, given to the student who has best demonstrated the important link between social theory and empirical research.
Katherine Courtney Hegarty - Recipient of the C. Wright Mills Award, given to the student who has best demonstrated the application of sociological imagination to social issues.
Elisa Anne Liszewski - Recipient of the Edwin H. Sutherland Award, given to the student who has best displayed an aptitude for criminology.
Margaret Clifford Hermanek and Elizabeth Ann Wilmers - Recipients of the Richard E. Martin Memorial Scholarship Award.
Lisa Marguerite Fehsenfeld - Recipient of the C. McGaughey Award in Urban Affairs.

Class of 2008, what are your post-graduate plans?

Please send an email to the Sociology Department Secretary, Stacy Elkin, with your updates: selkin@butler.edu

A message to the Sociology Department from Julie Kselman '07

Hi all,

I wanted to let you all know that I was accepted into the Master of Social Work program at George Mason University in Virginia. I will be starting in the fall, and choosing a concentration in community growth and organizing. After seven months of low level case management work, I am ready to be back in school, learning, and not spending my days filing Medicaid paperwork! I just wanted to let you know my good news, and thank you very much for all of your support during my four years at Butler. My undergraduate studies in Sociology at Butler prepared me very well for graduate school. The classes I took with all of you have given me the confidence to further my education.

Thank you for all that you have done for me, and all that you do for other students!
Julie Kselman

Jenna Melton '07 - Jenna is pursuing her Masters Degree at Indiana University
Melissa Sauer '07 - Melissa will pursue a summer job and hopefully attend Indiana University Law School in the fall.
Lauren Schnabl '07 - Lauren hopes to head to Scotland or New Zealand to work on her Masters in Social Work with a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship.
John Harbor '07 - John plans on joining the workforce in Indy.
Brooklyn Rogers '07 - Brooklyn is heading to New Jersey to work in Early Childhood Education for Teach for America.
Ashley Brown '07 - Ashley's plan is to work for a law firm in Indy for one year and then on to law school.
Liz Burrow '07 - Liz plans on joining the workforce.
Karen Montgomery '07 - Karen is working for The College Network, an educational publishing company.
Joseph Elliot Payne '07 - Elliot plans on working for the Marion County Communications Corrections department for a year or two and go on to law school, hopefully at the University of Kentucky.
Krystal Hendrix '07 - Krystal plans on staying in Indy to pursue a full-time position. She is currently an assistant coach at Perry Meridian High School.
Melissa Wickens '07 - Melissa will be joining City Year Cleveland for 10 months.