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  • Professor Gille Interviewed for Indiana University's Framing the Global Initiative
    2016-11-15 - Framing the Global Fellow Zsuzsa Gille recently discussed with us her book Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union, published by IU Press. In the book, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since joining...
  • Tom VanHeuvelen Wins Honorable Mention
    2016-07-19 - Tom VanHeuvelen's paper ("Recovering the Missing Middle: A Mesocomparative Analysis of Within-Group Inequality") has won an Honorable Mention from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section of ASA in the Best Student Paper competition.
  • Assata Zerai named Associate Chancellor for Diversity
    2016-07-15 - Our own Professor Assata Zerai has accepted the position of Associate Chancellor for Diversity! This appointment recognizes Professor Zerai's campus-wide leadership in mentoring and promoting diversity on our campus. Please join us in congratulating her!
  • What is New with the Iranian Contentious Politics? European Rightists and Trump are on the rise, but Iran’s radical right is increasingly marginalized
    2016-07-15 - Rightist movements in Europe are on the rise, and Donald Trump has astoundingly hijacked the American conservatives’ platform. Yet at the same time thousands of miles farther in Iran, the radical right has had a hard time reaching out to the Iranian people. The irony is that while rightist politics...
  • ASA Election Results!
    2016-06-13 - The following Sociology professors were elected to positions with the American Sociological Association. Please join us in congratulating them. Phyllis Baker was elected to the council for the Sociology of Development Section. Zsuzsa Gille was elected Chair of the Global and Transnational Sociology...
  • A Minute With Professor Kevin Leicht
    2016-06-04 - Rising income inequality has been brought front and center as an issue in this year’s presidential campaign. But do we really know what’s driving it, and the keys to closing the gap? Are popular explanations supported by research and data? Sociologist Kevin Leicht has focused much of his career on...
  • Professor Leicht Interviewed by The Atlantic Monthly
    2016-05-02 - By now, no one is debating the fact that economic inequality has grown substantially in the past few decades. It seems that almost every day there’s a new report showing that incomes and wealth continue to grow for the richest while everyone else struggles to make do. But...
  • Professor Mendenhall teams with researchers and the National Science Foundation to study the lost history of black women.
    2016-05-02 - It is often said that history is written by the victors. But it's probably more true to say it is written by the people who have the opportunity to write. One example of this is the study of black women, their lives and their experiences. Documents recording the lives of black women are often...
  • Professor Bayat is Second Only to Samuel Huntington in Citations About Arab Uprisings
    2016-04-29 - Life as Politics is a collection of essays and fieldwork articles originally published by Asef Bayat in a range of academic outlets between the years 2001 and 2009. It is a prophetic work. Published a year before the Arab uprisings, it tells much about how some of the Arab uprisings...
  • Professor Sandefur Speaks at the US Department of Justice
    2016-03-09 - On February 29, Professor Sandefur spoke about her research on public experience with justice problems and civil legal aid at a meeting co-chaired by US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch and the Director of President Obama's Domestic Policy Council, Cecilia Munoz. The event was attended by cabinet-...
  • Congratulations Professor Buckley!
    2016-02-05 - Cynthia Buckley was selected to join a group of 20 leading scholars to help launch the German government's new interdisciplinary migration research center in Berlin. The group sought to provide guiding ideas about emerging issues in immigration to the EU.
  • Congratulations Professor Liao!
    2016-02-05 - Tim Liao collaborators have been awarded a grant (approx. $1 million Australian) to study the intergenerational transmission of joblessness. The proposed project seeks to understand the intergenerational transmission of joblessness and identify new ways in which the cycle of joblessness can be...
  • Congratulations Professor McDermott!
    2016-02-05 - Monica McDermott has been awarded a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation ($150,000, with collaborators Eric Knowles from NYU and Jennifer Richeson from Northwestern). The grant title is "Inequality, Diversity and Working Class White Attitudes".
  • Congratulations Professor Zerai!
    2016-02-05 - Assata Zerai (along with Brian Pianfetti in Civil and Environmental Engineering) has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The grant will be used to bring young African scholars to campus to study public management (with further emphasis on...
  • A Minute With Professor Asef Bayat
    2016-01-27 - Five years ago this month, the Tunisians had brought down a dictator and the Egyptians were on their way to doing the same, beginning with massive demonstrations that grabbed the world’s attention. Protest and revolution would soon spread throughout the Middle East; it would be labeled as the “Arab...