Graduate Program Sociology

"Finding a major I loved enhanced my Cornell education more than I could have imagined." In addition to being chosen as on of the College of Arts and Sciences Extraordinary Seniors Lynch also recently won a Writing in the Majors Prize from the John S. Knight Institute for her essay "The Making of the Philadelphia Badlands." The essay was written for Professor Kendra Bischoff's course, Sociology 3380: Urban Inequality. Lynch also won the Robert Wertheimer Award which honors the coninuing contributions of former sociology major Robert Wertherimer and is for the best thesis outside the field of social psychology. Lynch's thesis is entitled "The Optional Buy Out and The Imperative Buy In: A Comparison of Teachers' Perceptions of Parent Involvement in Socioeconomically Advantaged Vversus Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Schools."