2025-06-30
- Sociology assistant professor Dr. Brittney Miles was recently featured in a piece from the Illinois News Bureau, "...
2025-04-29 - 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
2024-08-15 - 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...
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...
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...- 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...