2024-09-10
- 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 Moussawi
Ilana Redstone
Matthew Soener
Staff
Morgan Smith
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2024-08-27 - 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. You can read the full article here. Congratulations to...
2024-08-20 - 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 2024 Illinois Summer Research Symposium (ISRS) Graduate Research Talk. Please join us in...
2024-08-15 - Dr. Tim Liao, Professor of Sociology at Illinois, has been named the next editor of Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, an online open access journal from the American Sociological Association (ASA). His tenure as editor begins this month, August 2024, and will continue for the next three years. Among his stated goals for the journal, Dr. Liao intends to...
2024-07-23 - Last Thursday, Professor Reuben A. Buford May was named a President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellow for the 2024-2025 session. PELP is a unique professional development program designed to broaden participants’ understanding of higher education issues and to strengthen their leadership skills related to overseeing a public...
2024-06-14 - Dr. Jose Atiles Osoria named Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar. The LEAP award is presented to early-career faculty to recognize their scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the...- 2023-08-01 - Click here
- Dr. Ghassan Moussawi was elected to serve as Chair-Elect of the ASA Race, Gender, and Class Section.2023-06-23 - Dr. Ghassan Moussawi was elected to serve as Chair-Elect (3-year term begins in 2023) of the American Sociological Association section Race, Gender, and Class Section. Congratulations!
2023-06-23 - The Sociology, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies Convocation took place on May 13th, in the historic Virginia Theater in Champaign. Check out the video!
2022-12-20 - Dr. Kevin Leicht is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Dr. Kevin Leicht, Dr. Chang Xiang Zhai, and Dr. Mary Stapel received a $100,000 grant from Jump ARCHES endowment for their proposal "Developing An Easy-To-Use Application For Combatting Health Misinformation in Healthcare Settings". Congratulations Dr. Leicht!
2022-09-22 - Sociology provides the scientific tools for investigating and understanding many of the world’s most challenging social problems. Whether it is investigating the role of crime in society, the impact of global markets, the challenges to sustainability, the strain of inequality, the fight for social justice, the place of culture, the drivers of climate change, the social significance of race, the...
2022-09-06 - Dr. Tim F. Liao is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Urbana-Champaign. Recently, there was a news article released on the publication of Professor Liao titled "Slogans Protesting Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Displayed Three Themes". To read the full article, click...
2022-08-02 - Ege Gungor Onal received his B.S. in Bioengineering with the highest honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. As a Cancer Scholar and the co-founder of the Cancer Center at Illinois Student Organization (CCIL-SO), he has been actively conducting research since his first year. Starting in Professor Brian T. Cunningham’s laboratory on liquid biopsy cancer diagnostics, he has...
2022-05-25 - Cynthia Buckley is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Professor Buckley participated in a Q&A discussing the history of abortion and the likely impact of a potential Roe v. Wade overturn. To read the published Q&A, click here.
2022-05-23 - Tim Liao is the Department Head and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recently, Professor Liao and ACES colleague Angela Lyons have been awarded a Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Racism and Social Injustice Research Program grant. The full amount of the grant is $75,000 and involves research and public engagement with...