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March 14, 2014
Professor Andrew Papachristos spoke with CNN as part of their Chicagoland coverage about what he calls the “crime gap” in that city and how to tackle it. Check out the story...
March 13, 2014
This weekend Professor Ron Eyerman will show artwork from his books and on themes of cultural trauma and the arts in New York City at 120 Park Avenue and 42nd Street, just...
March 7, 2014
This spring, Professor Rene Almeling was invited to deliver the Gray/Wawro Lecture in Gender, Health and Well-Being at Rice University, where she was also awarded the 2014...
March 3, 2014
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein’s series of lectures in Iran has been covered by the Washington Post, who describes his visit as a sign that Iranian authorities are...
March 1, 2014
Graduate student Jensen Sass, together with coauthor John Dryzek at the Australian National University, has a new article out in the journal Political Theory. In it, Sass and...
February 27, 2014
Professor Elijah Anderson will give a lecture as the keynote speaker of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society’s Speaker Symposia. His talk,...
February 26, 2014
A new issue of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology is out now! The journal, housed in our department, aims to provide a space where cultural sociologists can follow...
February 25, 2014
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker just published a new article on Albanian Kosovars in Little Italy in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. In it, she develops the concept...
February 24, 2014
Recent graduate Samuel Nelson and Professor Philip Gorski have a new article out in the journal International Sociology, titled “Conditions of religious belonging:...
January 21, 2014
Professor Marcus Anthony Hunter has published a new op-ed in the Washington Post. In it he reviews voting rights in the U.S. since 1965, considers the way forward, and argues...