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Sociology alumnus Eboo Patel recieves the 2024 LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award and a feature in LAS News
Even before receiving his BA in Sociology in 1996, Eboo Patel found his niche as a community leader on the University of Illinois campus by serving as an RA and leading a volunteer student organization. After graduation, he funneled his civic interests into founding the organization Interfaith...
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Jazmin Olivas featured in LAS News for her work with C-U immigrant communities
Congratulations to Sociology senior Jazmin Olivas, who has been featured in LAS News for her award-winning work with The Immigration Project. Having started as a volunteer, she now works full-time as the point person for new clients, helping them...
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Sociology PhD Student Mabubeh Moqadam Published in "Gender and Development"
The Department of Sociology extends our congratulations to fourth-year PhD student Mabubeh Moqadam, who recently published her paper, "A Decolonial Feminist Inquiry into Women’s Agency in the Urban Landscape in 19th-Century Iran," in the current issue of Gender and Development....
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Sociology Instructors on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Spring 2024)
Results for the Spring 2024 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent have been released by CITL. Please join us in congratulating the faculty and TAs who made this semester's list! Faculty Jose Atiles Osoria Brian Dill Christina Kamis Anna-Maria Marshall Brittney Miles Ghassan...
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Check out Dr. Ilana Redstone's feature by the News Bureau
A new feature by the Illinois News Bureau highlights Dr. Ilana Redstone's upcoming book about interrogating our own certainty. The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More — and How We Can Judge Others Less releases on September 2 from Pitchstone Publishing....
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Incoming Doctoral Student Kass Gonzalez Recieves Two Accolades in SPI
Kass Gonzalez, an incoming doctoral student in the Sociology department, recently received two accolades for her work during the Summer Predoctoral Institute (SPI) program. Kass was presented with the Outstanding Scholar Award by SPI, and her research during the program was ranked 2nd place in the...

Socius

The Department of Sociology proudly houses Socius, the American Sociological Association’s only open access online journal that publishes peer-reviewed high-quality research of a wide range of topics as rapidly as possible.

Editorial team:
Editor: Tim F. Liao
Managing Editor: Gretchin Gifford
Editorial Associates: Miguel Arturo Avalos & Kassandra Gonzalez

Recently published papers can be viewed at the journal’s website.

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Ghassan Moussawi

Faculty Spotlight: Ghassan Moussawi named Conrad Humanities Scholar

Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars and Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professors. Angela Calcaterra, Teri Chettiar, Irvin Hunt, and Ghassan Moussawi have each been honored as Conrad Humanities Scholars. The Conrad Humanities Scholars award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years. The awards are funded by a gift from the late Arlys Conrad (AB, ’44, education).

Nehal Elmeligh

Publication Spotlight: Nehal Elmeligy received Honorable Mention for the 2023 Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Society

Nehal Elmeligy, a Sociology PhD candidate, has been awarded the Honorable Mention for the 2023 Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Society for her article “Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storyelling as Feminist Social Change.”