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Associate Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons recently published an essay, "Political Elites and the Culture of Social Movements," in Sociology Compass (Culture Section, Vol. 3, May 2009), an online journal that publishes peer-reviewed survey articles that address current research. The article synthesizes scholarship that directly and indirectly addresses the question of how political elites impact the culture of social movements, and vice versa.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons participated in an invited panel on anti-civil rights violence in the south at the Southern Political Science Association Meetings, Jan. 8-10, in New Orleans. The interdisciplinary panel brought together scholars from law, political science and sociology to discuss their work on white violence against civil rights activists and black southerners during the civil rights era.

Jenny Irons, assistant professor of sociology, recently attended the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston, July 31-August 4. Irons served as a panelist at a professional workshop, "Succeeding at a Liberal Arts College." She also served as a discussant for a set of five papers at a session titled, "Social, Cultural, and Organizational Contexts of Collective Behavior."