Dr. Tim Liao was recently awarded the American Sociological Association Methodology Section's 2021 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award. "This award, recognizing sociologists who have contributed to the field of sociological methodology, was founded in 1986 in honor of Paul F. Lazarsfeld." For the full list of award recipients please click...

Let us recognize Ghassan Moussawi for being awarded this year's ASA Sexualities Section Distinguished Book Award! Congratulations Dr. Moussawi!

The American Sociological Association's Sexuality Section has awarded Ghassan Moussawi with the ASA Section on Sexualities Early Career Award! This award highlights an exceptional scholar (whether in a tenure-track faculty position, a term faculty position, or engaged in a career outside academia) whose contributions to the discipline of sociology and the sociological study of...

Congratulations to Ghassan Moussawi for being elected to three new positions in the American Sociological Association! Ghassan Moussawi will be serving as the Secretary/Treasurer of the ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section, Council Member of the ASA Race, Class, Gender Section and the Council Member of the ASA Sociology of Emotions Section. Ghassan will also continue...

"During a difficult year, people throughout the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences responded to challenges arising from COVID-19 with creativity, compassion, and expertise." Congratulations to Alishia Alexander, Caitlin Clarke, Dawn McNulty, Ruby Mendenhall, and Brian Francis O'Neill for being the recipients of the awards!  Alishia Alexander- "For...

Dr. Liao was recently featured in a news release from the Illinois News Bureau, titled "Social comparisons with similar people determine income's effect on happiness." Abstract: "Sociology professor and head Tim Liao found that Americans were happier in states with higher wealth inequality when they had people within their...

The following Sociology teachers were ranked in the top 30% based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Congratulations to our excellent teachers! Fall 2020: ATILES OSORIA,J 275,310,479 BIRCAN,S TA 160 CLARKE,C 196 DILL,B 510 *GILLE,Z 447...

Professor and ethnographer, Ghassan Moussawi, was featured as an LAS Expert for his studies on how marginalized communities adapt to lives of violence and uncertainty. Read the article on "When danger becomes the norm" featuring Moussawi's expertise and interviewing him on his current work, the impacts he's made in his field and community, and what he enjoys most about teaching, for the full...

Our very own Professor, Reuben A. Buford May, was asked to interview for “Experts Share How the U.S. Can Save Our Democracy…and Avoid a Civil War” on NBC Lx. The link to the live story can be found ...

Professor, Ghassan Moussawi, recently published "Bad Feelings: On Trauma, Nonlinear Time, and Accidental Encounters in “the Field”" in an issue of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. "This essay explores what I describe as “bad feelings” in the field and the research process. Combining autoethnography with feminist and queer methods, I counter the stigma around trauma and feelings...