Department of Sociology

Sociology Seniors Garner Honors

 Derek Dangerfield has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for next year. He has just completed researching and writing a senior thesis which explored whether social support might reduce the level of repeat infections among those with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). His work next year in Malaysia will continue on that subject, as he explores cultural attitudes in that nation toward STDs.

 Tanisha Humphrey was recipient of this year’s “Beyond the Gates” award, conferred at the LGBTQ Center’s annual Lavender Graduation. Among her many public efforts on and off-campus, this past year she served as Leadership Intern at the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which seeks to increase the number of LGBT Candidates Elected to federal and local positions; she will join Victory next year full-time as a Programming Associate.

Lauren Reese   Ryan Zimmerman

Lauren Reese and Ryan Zimmerman are the only 2012 Georgetown inductees into Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society. Due to the high class-rank threshold needed to qualify for membership, it has become ferociously difficult to gain entry into this honorary society. AKD’s Greek initials begin words meaning “to study humankind for the purpose of service,” and the faculty can attest that both Ryan and Lauren have wedded service to impressive scholarship throughout their years on the hilltop. Lauren capped off her Georgetown career with a senior thesis written dually for both Sociology and the Justice and Peace Studies Program, “Digital Tools and Direct Actions: An Analysis of the Role of the Internet in the Nonviolent Strategies of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.” Her efforts have already justified two presentations based on her research at scholarly conferences. Ryan ends his undergraduate career with a flourish, crafting the longest, and perhaps the most complex, senior thesis ever submitted to the department, “The Rhetor and the (Social) Medium: The Effect of Social Media on Political Rhetoric.”

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