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."
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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...
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—...
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...
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...- 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...
- 2019-02-12 - See the full article at Zippia, "These Are The 10 Best Colleges For Sociology Majors In Illinois For 2018".
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.
2018-08-21 - See the full article at the Illinois News Bureau.
2018-06-05 - To read more about the award, see the full article on the MSU website.
2017-10-19 - Employers weigh internships more heavily in hiring than where you went to school, your grades or your major – that’s the essence of a quote pinned outside the sociology department’s academic advising office at Illinois. It may not be...- 2017-10-18 - Thousands flooded streets and squares in the Arab Spring of 2011, and dictators fell. But true revolution never came, or has been thwarted since. University of Illinois sociology professor Asef Bayat, in a new book, argues that activists never thought out or planned for true...