Department News

November 21, 2014
Graduate Student Angela Onwuachi-Willig has been selected to receive the Association of American Law Schools Minority Groups Section’s highest honor for senior faculty...
October 21, 2014
Graduate student Thomas Crosbie has accepted a position as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Research on Military Organization in the Sociology Department of the...
October 18, 2014
Graduate student Elizabeth Roberto has been awarded the 2014 James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems for her research on the...
October 13, 2014
This Tuesday (October 14) we look forward to hosting distinguished scholar Kristin Luker, who will deliver a talk titled “Abortion, Contraception, and the Neoliberal Moment...
October 9, 2014
Professor Andrew Papachristos was on the National Public Radio daily program Morning Edition today in a segment covering his research on networks and gun violence in Chicago...
October 8, 2014
Professor Rene Almeling was a guest on New York City Public Radio’s Brian Lehrer Show last week. She took calls from listeners about the recent “wrongful birth” lawsuit...
September 27, 2014
Grad student Michael Sierra-Arévalo was interviewed by Newsweek for a new piece on American gun deaths. In it, he talks about the difficulties researchers face when they try...
September 22, 2014
Professor Andrew Papachristos published an op-ed in the Washington Post this weekend on crime and inequality. In it, he argues that “America’s haves and have-nots are divided...
September 9, 2014
Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer Nicholas Hoover Wilson and his colleague Damon Mayrl have been awarded an American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of...
September 7, 2014
Professor Jeffrey Alexander has been named this year’s Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar. He will visit 8 colleges and universities this academic year, spending...