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- Dr. Anna-Maria Marshall was interviewed for LAS News regarding her work studying the effects of phosphorus fertilizer on freshwater and soil as one of the founders of the Science and Technologies for Phosphorous Sustainability (STEPS) Center. Dr. Marshall's work focuses on paths and obstacles to implementing technologies that advance phosphorus sustainability....
2024-10-04 - 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 Youth Core in 2002, followed by Interfaith America in 2022. The organizations seek to further...
2024-09-30 - 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 acclimate to legal processes in Illinois. In addition to her work with The Immigration Project,...
2024-09-23 - 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. The paper can be...
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 ...
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...