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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology

Student Spotlights

  • Hello! My name is Brandon Bae. I am a Business Operations & Marketing intern for a software company called Kokomo24/7 and I will be interning with them until the end of the upcoming summer. This company specializes in streamlining health, safety, and efficiency for both the education and private sectors. I had the opportunity to intern for them already over this past summer in person...
  • Hello! My name is Jazmin Olivas and I am currently interning at The Immigration Project in Champaign as a New Arrivals Caseworker. I found this internship through Handshake and was lucky enough to be selected for an internship. A typical day looks like meeting with newly arrived migrants from Central and South America, helping them figure out what their legal documents mean, when their court day...
  • Hello, my name is Carter Sullivan. I currently work as a student intern with the creative solutions department of Illini Athletics. I currently serve as the lean content creator for the Illinois volleyball team. I did not find this on any particular website, but I reached out to the directors of the creative solutions department, sending them my story and portfolio, and was asked to do an...
  • Hi! My name is Olivia Chingis and I am currently one of the Social Media Interns for the Sociology Department. I found this internship by seeing a newsletter about the class SOC 400. In the description of the SOC 400 class, there was mention that you could have an internship within SOC advising and I immediately became interested. I talked to Morgan and she told me about the position of being a...
  • Brian Kwak is a Senior Sociology major with a minor in Business. How did you find this internship? I have spent several months asking and looking for an internship and I am so glad that I was chosen to do what I am currently doing. Up until now, I wasn’t given a lot of opportunities to use this knowledge to do something so meaningful. The division of MGI, an accounting firm, is a hard but...
  • Madigan Hoffman is a Senior double major with Sociology/Political Science, minoring in Gender & Women's Studies. How did you find this internship? I found my internship with the Illinois Democratic County Chairs' Association on Handshake! I messaged the director along with submitting my application, and interviewed within the week. What do you usually do for the internship? On a...
  • Outside of the classroom, internships are a great way to use your hands and see the inner workings of an organization. Brandon, a senior, got to dive into the Champaign County District Attorney's Office during his internship and explore the legal world first-hand. Here is Brandon's reflection about his internship journey: Where did you find your internship? I discovered this fantastic...
  • Sociology students have incredible opportunities to participate in internships and gain both professional development and Capstone credit for their major. Grace, a senior who is double majoring in SOC and Political Science, has been fortunate enough to work with her internship organization, Hope for the Day, for almost a full year!  We asked Grace to...
  • Please join us in congratulating PhD Candidate, Miguel Avalos for being awarded the University of Illinois's Humanities Research Institute's Graduate Student Fellowship for 2023-24. The fellowship enables advanced graduate students to develop their dissertations or research projects related to the broad theme of “Un/Doing” and to participate in the year’s activities, including the yearlong...
  • Yusuf Karipek, a PhD candidate, was selected as a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow for the 2023 summer and 2023-2024 academic year. He will be furthering his studies in Chinese language.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology

3120 Lincoln Hall

702 S. Wright St.

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-1950

Email: sociology@illinois.edu

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