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...

Congratulations to Sociology Professor Kevin Leicht on being awarded a National Science Foundation RAPID grant of $195,000 as a primary investigator for the project, "RAPID: Tracking and Network Analysis of the Spread of Misinformation Regarding COVID-19." The co-PIs on the project are GEIS ...

  Congratulations to PhD student Mona Khneisser on being awarded the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award from Critical Sociology. "In his memory and in recognition of his commitment to nurture junior scholars, the Editorial Board of Critical Sociology...

Each year, the Department of Sociology gives out four year-end awards to students who have demonstrated exceptional work and dedication to Sociology that academic year. This year, senior Alexis Hernandez was chosen to receive the award for Student Engagement.   ...

Each year, the Sociology Department gives out four awards. One is for the undergraduate student paper written that year which demonstrates exceptional research and writing. This year, Alexis Pantoja-Gonzalez was selected to receive this award for her paper, "Gendered Disorders: An Analysis of...

  The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that our graduate student, Shwetha Delanthamajalu, will receive the 2020 Marianne A. Ferber Scholarship from the Department of Gender & Women's Studies. This scholarship is awarded for her dissertation proposal, "Moral panics and...