Counting deaths the world doesn’t record, partnering with refugees in Columbus, mapping every terrorist attack since 1970 – sociology’s reach runs from Franklin County to the…
Nima Dahir is an OSU alum who returned home to join the sociology faculty. She studies how Somali immigrants in Columbus navigate race, identity, and neighborhoods, and has launched a research-practice partnership with Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS).
Laura Dugan co-created the Global Terrorism Database, the world’s most comprehensive record of terrorist attacks since 1970.
Chris Browning’s AHDC study maps adolescent development in Franklin County – the department’s most locally grounded major project.
Townsand Price-Spratlen’s work on addiction recovery and resilience guides opioid-crisis response through community ethnography.
Douglas Downey’s How Schools Really Matter reshapes education-policy debate nationally and internationally.
Sam Clark leads the openVA Team developing verbal-autopsy methods and software used to establish cause of death for people in countries without vital-statistics systems.