2021-01-14
- We are thrilled for Professor Ruby Mendenhall, who was named LAS Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar for the academic year of 2021-2022 (from among all college-wide promotions to professors in the year)! Congratulations, Dr. Mendenhall!
2020-12-30 - We are so proud of all our Sociology students who graduated in December 2020. For a complete list including departmental honors, go here.- 2020-09-15 - Program Requirements Detailed information regarding course and student requirements for our program: Doctoral Degree Application Procedures Find information on how to apply to the Department of Sociology for graduate study....
- 2020-09-03 - Professor Ghassan Moussawi was recently interviewed for and featured in an article by Jodi Heckel, Arts and Humanities Editor at the Illinois News Bureau. The article is...
2020-08-31 - Welcome back to school! This semester looks very different no matter where you're spending it, but there are still lots of ways to get connected and supported in the new, hybrid learning environment. The University has created a whole new site, Illinois Remote, where they have consolidated resources for remote learning. If you go to the...
2020-08-24 - Professor Cynthia Buckley was recently interviewed by Jeremy Gantz, a contributing editor for the Center for Illinois Politics, about the potential impact of the 2020 Census on UIUC and the state of Illinois. In...
2020-07-30 - 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 professor Joe Yun and Journalism professor Brant Houston. We look forward to following this exciting...
2020-07-08 - 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 has created the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award ...
2020-06-30 - The Counseling Center’s Sankofa Black Student Outreach Team is partnering with Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center to offer a safe space for students to process ongoing events and connect with others. Sessions are weekly, Thursdays from 4-5pm via Zoom. Meeting ID: 96933748855. Password: SANKOFA.
2020-06-23 - Updated as of 6/24/2020 12pm CDT Here is a personal video from Dawn McNulty, the department advisor, going over all the new information regarding Fall 2020 course schedule changes. See below for the information in text format. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1_nvr679ct.jpg?itok=RBKB9pBC","video_url":"https://...- 2020-05-27 - From Zippia.com: "How We Determined The Best Sociology Schools In Illinois When it comes to identifying the best Sociology schools we wanted to approach the ranking like Sociology major would, by looking at data on how schools perform and comparing them to one another. So with that mind,...
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...