2021 Newsletter

Welcome from the Chair

I am delighted to introduce our 2021 newsletter as the Chair of the Department of Sociology. After successfully guiding us through the many challenges of 2020, Ryan King has accepted the position of …

Sociology Advisory Board Spotlights

In 2015, the Ohio State Department of Sociology established a Sociology Advisory Board to find new ways to connect to our large, diverse alumni community and to tap their enormous talents to help…

Faculty Spotlight

Sarah Hayford, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies Please tell us about the main research question you are trying to answer. We want to know how children are affected when…

New Faculty Profiles

The Department of Sociology added two new assistant faculty members in 2020: Dr. Anthony Johnson, and Dr. Lauren Valentino.

Graduate Student Spotlight

Our department boasts approximately 65 graduate students. In this newsletter issue we are spotlighting two Sociology Graduate Students: Melissa Alcaraz, PhD and Luther Young, PhD Candidate.

Graduate Placements

2020 PhD Graduate Placements Laura DeMarco Department of Sociology and Anthropology North Carolina State University Assistant Professor Scott Duxbury Department of Sociology University of…

Undergraduate Student Spotlight

Jacob Caponi is an Ohio State undergraduate alum and current sociology graduate student at University of Michigan. Why did you decide to attend Ohio State?  I had no idea…

Alumni Spotlights

Alumni of the department of sociology work in a wide variety of fields, in this issue we are spotlighting two: Dr. Yue Qian and Dr. Matt Stearmer.

Sociology Award Winners

Sadé Lindsay won the Graduate Research Fellowship and Grant from the National Institute of Justice, the Benjamin Steiner Excellence in Corrections Paper Award from American Society of Criminology…

OSU Sociology COVID-19 Research

Professor Chris Browning and colleagues received two rapid-response grants (National Science Foundation RAPID and a National Institute on Drug Abuse supplement) to collect mobility, COVID-19 and…