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2021-22 Avery Award Winners
Congratulations to the Department of Sociology’s Avery Award winner for 2021-2022, Elizabeth Timple as well as to our two runners up Amy Modi and Bianca Gonzales.
Dr. Mark Paterson in Humanities Center book discussion event with Dr. Randall Halle
Sociology Associate Professor Mark Paterson will be discussing his most recent book, How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (University of Minnesota Press) in a '...
Doctoral student Seda Baykal has won a research grant from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Doctoral student Seda Baykal has won a research grant from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for her project "Faith and Reason in Higher Education: Ankara University School of...
PhD student Chie Togami presents "Community Voices: Pittsburgh, the United States Steel Corporation, and 120 years of extraction."
Join World History Center Graduate Student Assistant in Public History, Chie Togami, for a presentation and conversation about her three-part podcast series, "Extraction." The project and podcast...
Associate Professor Waverly Duck's "Tacit Racism" wins Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction’s 2021 Charles Horton Cooley Book Award.
2021 Ph.D. Candice Robinson accepts Assistant Professor position at University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Congratulations to Candice Robinson, an August 2021 Ph.D. graduate, who will begin a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Dan McClymonds, Ph.D candidate, wins SSSP student paper award
Sociology doctoral candidate Dan McClymonds has been awarded the student paper award for the 'Conflict, Action, and Social Change'...
Ph.D. student Kanoko Kamata featured in Dietrich School "Student Spotlight."
Kanoko Kamata, entering her third year in the Department of Sociology's PhD program, was featured in a recent Kenneth P....
Ph.D. student Joshua McDermott accepts Visiting Assistant Professor position at Utah State University.
Congratulations to Joshua McDermott for his offer of a visiting assistant professor position at Utah State University. Joshua will be beginning this fall.
It is energizing to see our...
Ph.D. candidate Basak Gemici receives ASA Honorable Mention
Ph.D. candidate Basak Gemici has received an Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association (ASA)...
Congratulations Professor Bloom on winning the "2021 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Social Movements"
Dr. Josh Bloom recieved the 2021 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Social Movements Award from the American Sociological Association, for his article ...
Student Debt and Affordable Housing: Exploring the Links
On Wednesday April 14,2021 we met to discuss student debt and affordable housing. We invite you to view our discussion at the following...
Anti-Asian Violence panel organized by Ph.D. student christina ong, video available
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asians and Asian Americans have been scapegoated as bringing and carrying disease across the country. This rhetoric is not new.
In a timely...
Ph.D. student Natalia Duarte wins prestigious ASA grant
One of Sociology's fourth year Ph.D. students, Natalia Duarte, has just won the 2020 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG). Her project, “...