• 2020-05-20 - 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.    Alexis was born and raised on the Southwest side of Chicago. At a very young age, she learned...
  • 2020-05-13 - 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 Impact of Gender Norms on Mental Illness Prevalence."  "I worked very hard on this...
  • 2020-04-29 -   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 policing of sex and love in the time of Hindutva."  The award is given to the most outstanding...
  • 2020-04-22 - Next Friday, May 1st, at 3pm the Sociology Department is hosting a panel discussion on Zoom, related to Steven L. Foy and Rashawn Ray's 2019 article, "Skin in the Game: Colorism and the Subtle Operation of Stereotypes in Men’s College Basketball" (American Journal of Sociology), which has raised fascinating...
  • 2020-02-05 - Congratulations to Dr. Gille on being named for this prestigious award. Each year, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities names a select few faculty members as fellows in order to facilitate their research and writing. This year's theme was "The Global and Its Worlds."   Dr. Gille's research emulates the theme of this year's fellowship perfectly as it focuses on the...
  • 2020-01-22 - Professor Buckley was recently featured on an episode of the podcast "The 21st." In the episode, she discusses population loss in the state as well as her work with the watchdog organization The Census Project, whose goal is to ensure a fair and accurate 2020 US Census. To listen to the episode, click here...
  • 2019-12-05 - Sociology Colloquium  A persistent challenge in democracies, particularly in industries controlled by professions, is for citizens and critics to be able to understand an industry sufficiently well to regulate it. This challenge is magnified when one body of expert knowledge—such as theology—is applied to another body of expert knowledge—such as the products and services of the finance...
  • 2019-11-19 - PhD student, Mona Khneisser, recently published an article in Jacobin about the uprising in Lebanon. Find the article here: ...
  • 2019-11-19 - Ms. Kathleen Ernst PhD student of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, United States delivered a significant donation of equipment for the Room for the Care of People with Special Needs "Frank Emilio".  The donation was received by Eliani de la Torre Puig, Head of the General Service Room "Domingo Figarola Caneda" and Esperanza Rijo, a specialist for the Care of People...
  • 2019-09-11 - Poverty tourism, also known as slum tourism, often refers specifically to guided tours through the urban “slums” of the Global South. The practice has become a popular form of “development,” in a number of cities across the Global South, with the townships of Johannesburg and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro receiving the most traffic. However, in this chapter, I draw attention to the similarities...
  • 2019-08-22 -   2019, American Sociological Association, History of Sociology Section,  Lifetime Achievement Award Norbert Wiley, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. Throughout his long and successful career, Professor Wiley has produced several dozens of texts, a considerable number of which have become cornerstones in scholarly fields concerned with the history of sociology and...
  • 2018-10-04 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rebecca Sandefur, a professor of sociology and of law at the University of Illinois, has been awarded a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant,” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowship carries an unrestricted $625,000...
  • 2018-08-23 - Ruby Mendenhall discusses a point during a meeting last spring with collaborators on an art exhibition, one of her many interdisciplinary projects. See the full article at the Illinois News Bureau.