Fabio Rojas is Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology at

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. He is the author of several sociological books, and starting with the first issue (Winter Issue) of 2018, he will be the co-editor of ''

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'' magazine with

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. Rojas has also made contributions to ''

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'', and has been interviewed and appeared on

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, and '' Vox'' magazine.

Career

Rojas graduated from the

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with a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2003 and began teaching as a professor of sociology at Indiana University – Bloomington. He is the author of ''From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline'' (2007, The

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) and ''Theory for the Working Sociologist'' (2017,

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). With Michael T. Heaney, he is a co-author of ''Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11'' (2015,

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), which won the APSA's 2016 Leon J. Epstein award for the study of political parties and organizations. He is also the author of an e-book titled ''Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure'' (2011). Starting in the Summer of 2017, he will be co-editor of the magazine '' Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds'', a publication of the

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. The first editions that will be printed under his leadership will be the Winter 2018 issue, which will be released in February 2018. Overall, his research addresses organizational behavior,

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s, higher education, computer modeling,

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, social theory, and

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Awards

Rojas has received numerous awards for his research work and publications. In 2002, he co-wrote an article with Kirby D. Schroeder titled "A Game Theoretic Model of Sexually Transmitted Disease Epidemics" and this won the 2003 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award by the ASA in Mathematical Sociology. His book Party in the Streets was selected as a Choice Top 25 Outstanding Academic Book for 2015 by the

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and also received the APSA Political Organizations and Parties Section's Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award in 2016.

Public work

Rojas has had his research featured in mass media as well. He wrote an article which discusses the role

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could play in predicting elections, which was published in ''The Washington Post'' on August 11, 2013. Furthermore, this article was mentioned in a CSPAN segment that aired on August 17 of the same year, and the following day he made an appearance on CSPAN to discuss the article. He has also written for ''The New York Times''. and been interviewed by ''Vox'' magazine.

References

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