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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, Hiram…
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 yesterday with…
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 is entitled …
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 Interview…
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 Origins of…
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…
Claudia Buchmann quoted in a U.S. News and World Report article.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/09/22/is-the-college-admissions-bubble-about-to-burst