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Sociology alumna Lin O'Neill featured as one of D Magazine's Dallas 500
4/10/19
Lin O’Neill was the first woman to be a corporate officer at Continental Airlines. Overseeing several thousand employees, she led its inflight services division through a reorganization. As a consultant, she has worked with both Fortune 100 companies and entrepreneurs. “Sometimes processes need to be re-evaluated,” she has written. O'Neill earned her bachelor's degree in sociology at Texas Woman’s University.
Associate professor Jessica Gullion, PhD, receives ICQI Honorable Mention book award
3/25/19
TWU associate professor of sociology Jessica Gullion, Ph.D., has been awarded Honourable Mention for her book, Diffractive Ethnography. The 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry grants this award annually to a member of the qualitative and ethnographic community who has published the English-language book that best represents an important contribution to qualitative inquiry.
TWU sociology alumna Morgan Villavaso awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in Malaysia
3/22/19
Morgan Villavaso, who graduated from Texas Woman’s University in fall 2018 with a degree in sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to teach English in Malaysia in early 2020.
Villavaso becomes TWU’s sixth student to be selected to participate in the Fulbright program, which is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange initiative. About 1,200 students from across the country are selected each year to participate in the program and are chosen based on their academic merit and leadership abilities.
“I have chosen Malaysia because immersion in a richly multicultural society with a culture quite different from my own will prepare me for my international career goals,” Villavaso said.
Sociology professor Mahmoud Sadri featured in Asia Times article about censorship in Iranian cinema
3/4/19
Mahmoud Sadri, a professor of sociology at the Texas Woman’s University, agrees with the idea that restrictions enabled Iranian cinema to make progress and establish a strong international reputation.
“The old adage that art thrives under repression and censorship may have something to do with this phenomenon. The most iconic example of this situation is the flowering 19th-century literature during the two consecutive repressive tsarist and Bolshevik regimes in Russia,” he told Asia Times.