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Kammi Schmeer awarded NIH $659,000 Five Year Career Development grant
Kammi Schmeer, Associate Professor of Sociology, was recently awarded a $659,000 K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Development for her project titled…
New Book by Tim Bartley and colleagues
Tim Bartley, Associate Professor of Sociology, is the author of a new book, Looking Behind the Label: Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer , co-authored with Sebastian Koos,…
Matt Moffitt awarded!
Matt Moffitt received recognition for his valuable work in the Department of Sociology. Dean David Manderscheid and the Arts and Sciences Staff Advisory Council (SAC) surprised Matt…
Randy Hodson, our colleague and friend, recently passed
The Department of Sociology mourns the recent passing of our colleague, Randy Hodson, on February 26th. He will be sorely missed. We hope that Randy’s many exemplary intellectual contributions to…
Graduate student receives award!
Jill Yavorsky has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Graduate Student Paper Award on the Study of Gender by the Sociologists for Women in Society-South (SWS-South). Jill's paper…
Corinne Reczek awarded grant.
Corinne Reczek, Assistant Professor of Sociology was awarded an NICHD grant to study the relationship between same-sex family structure and child health. She will use the National Health…
New Book by William Brustein and Louisa Roberts
Williams Brustein, Vice Provost, Office of Academic Affairs and Louisa Roberts, Sociology graduate student are equal authors of the forthcoming book, The Socialism of Fools? The Leftist…
Sherry Turkle to speak in November!
The department warmly welcomes Sherry Turkle for her presentation "The Flight from Conversation", co-sponsored with the Humanities Institute in November as part of the Provost's Discovery Themes…
3 Faculty Positions now open
The Department of Sociology welcomes applications for 3 faculty positions in Data Analytics in the areas of Health, Population and Environment, and Social Networks. Applications are due by…