CRGE Director Bonnie Thornton Dill Elected Vice
President of the American Sociological Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
College Park, MD -- Dr. Bonnie Thornton
Dill, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity,
has been elected Vice President-Elect of the American
Sociological Association (ASA). Dr. Dill
will serve one year as Elect and will then assume office at the
end of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the ASA.
There were 10,942 members eligible to vote
in the 2005 election, the largest number in nine years. Of those
eligible, 4,422 members cast votes, constituting a 40.41 percent
response rate, the largest number of voters and the highest response
rate in more than 20 years, according to the ASA. For a full list
of winners, see this announcement on
the ASA's Web page.
"We extend our warmest congratulations to
the newly elected officers and committee members, and thank everyone
who served the Association by running for office and by voting
in this election," said a spokesperson for ASA.
Dr. Dill, who also serves as a professor
and chair of the Department
of Women's Studies at the University
of Maryland, has been the director of CRGE since its inception
more than five years ago. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in
1979 from New
York University and has been actively involved
in the greater sociology community for decades.
For more information, please contact Patrick
Grzanka, Communications Coordinator by email (pgrzanka@umd.edu)
or phone at 301.405.5223.
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