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Section 1: AWARDS AND HONORS BY MEMBERS
Section 1: AWARDS AND HONORS BY MEMBERS
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Book Award
Book Award
Cé Sangalli, L. (2024). Migrants from Sudan in Germany and Jordan. Göttinger Beiträge Zur Soziologischen Biographieforschung. https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2024-2653
This book offers a transnational comparison of Sudanese diasporas and different generations of migrants in Germany and Jordan. It provides an empirically based framework to study the power dynamics that Sudanese individuals and groupings experience as they construct their life, family, and collective histories. This notion of autobiographical constructions shows that belonging among Sudanese migrants and their descendants is linked not only to their experiences and processes of remembering, but also to sociohistorical power inequalities and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge. This approach provides empirical insights into how different versions of the sociohistorical constructed past interrelate with experiences of violence.
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
Elena Chernyak, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been selected for a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the Slovak Republic for the 2026–27 academic year.
Chernyak will conduct a research project, “From Arrival to Inclusion: Migration and Integration in the U.S. and Slovakia,” hosted at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. The project examines how immigration policies, institutions, community programs, and public attitudes influence the integration of migrants and refugees after their arrival. Through comparative qualitative research in New York State and Slovakia, including interviews, policy analysis, and field observations, she will document migrants lived experiences across housing, employment, healthcare, education, belonging, and identity. The research will compare institutional responses and everyday integration experiences, identifying barriers, support networks, and adaptive strategies that shape newcomers’ long-term inclusion in different national and local contexts.
Lifetime Recognition -- Festschrift
Lifetime Recognition -- Festschrift
https://blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziologie/entry/kolloquium-zur-verabschiedung-von-professor
A colloquium in honor of Professor Thomas Faist’s retirement was held on April 17, 2026, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). The event brought together more than 90 participants from around the world to recognize Professor Faist’s long-standing scholarly contributions to the fields of trans nationalization, citizenship, and migration studies, beginning in the 1990s and continuing to shape contemporary research.
In addition to substantive questions and research findings, numerous presentations also reflected personal memories of unexpected and inspiring encounters. A draft of the Festschrift (commemorative volume), which will be published next year as a special issue of the journal “Ethnic & Racial Studies,” was also presented.
On behalf of those present, a participant from Ghana presented Thomas Faist with a chieftain's robe. The group “Religimuz” provided musical highlights in such an engaging manner that a spontaneous conversation arose between the musicians and the audience at the end of the event.
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