Professor; Director of Graduate Studies Faculty Profile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (205) 934-0825
The William Cockerham Paper Award was founded in honor of Professor William Cockerham, a longtime professor of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It honors his many contributions to the Department and to the discipline of medical sociology, and to encourage the research of graduate students. The William Cockerham Paper Award is awarded to the UAB Medical Sociology graduate student with the best paper in the area of medical sociology.
2024: Dee Ferguson, "Gendered Sexual Behaviors: Unintended Pregnancies and Sexually-Transmitted Infections"
2024 Honorable Mention: Monir Hossain, "Adolescents' Life Stressors and Mental Health Trajectories in Young Adulthood: Findings from the NLSY97 Cohort."
2023: Joshua Lewis, "A Demonstration of the Successful Aging of Black Women from Midlife to Late Life"
2023: Lu Tian, "Family Members' Education and Cognitive Functioning among Older Adults: Investigating the Mediating Role of Health Behaviors"
2022: Clifford Ross, "Labor Union Membership Tenure and Midlife Health: A Gendered Perspective"
2021: Alejandra Colón López, "Gendering Trust in General Surgery Training: The Association with Postgraduate Year, Prior Experience in the Operating Room, and Gender"
2020: Brie Scrivner, "Experiences of Movement in a Body-Inclusive Space"
2019: Shane D. Burns, "Disability Uncertainty among Medical Students in Peru: An Abductive Analysis"
2018: Fabrice S. Julien, "How Ethnic Self-Identification Informs the Association between Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptomatology in Caribbean Children"
2018 Honorable Mention: Jessica Valles, "Familial Support and Mental Health Service Use: Differences among First- and Second-Generation Asian American and Latino Older Adults"
Sociology Graduate Program Scholarship
The Sociology Graduate Program Scholarship was founded through a generous gift from Ms. Caroline O. Pardo and family for the purpose of creating a scholarship in sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This scholarship is used to provide financial assistance to deserving graduate students in UAB's Department of Sociology. It is awarded to a UAB Medical Sociology graduate student who has successfully defended their thesis proposal or dissertation proposal during the 12 months prior to the scholarship application due date.
2024: Andria Cimino, "Recognizing Patients in Places: A Multilevel Analysis of Severe Heat-Related Illness Risk in Birmingham, AL"
2023: Joshua Lewis, "A Demonstration of the Successful Aging of Black Women from Midlife to Late Life"
2021: Mercedes Tarasovich, "Barriers to Suicide Prevention/Postvention Among Suicide Attempt Survivors"
2020: Stephanie Kirkland, "The Framing of Drug Use by Congress from 1968 to 2018"
2019: Roman Johnson, "Examining the Role of Neighborhood Deprivation in the Association of Mammography Adherence and Facility Equity among Racial/Ethnic Groups"
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
The Outstanding Graduate Student Award is awarded annually to the UAB Medical Sociology graduate student who has displayed excellence in research, teaching, scholarship, and service during their time in the PhD program. The selection is made by the Graduate Committee during the annual student performance evaluation process.
Professor; Director of Graduate Studies Faculty Profile This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (205) 934-0825