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."   Dr....

Tim Liao lectured at Academia Sinica in December of 2010. The title of his lecture was ...

Asef Bayat was appointed as an editor in Middle East Report (Washington DC), and in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Toronto).

In an interview with Craig Chamberlain our department head Anna-Maria Marshall discusses civil unions legislation. Read Full Article

Professor Saskia Sassen delivers the 2011 Florian Znaniecki Lecture on May 5, 2011 at the University of Illinois.

Zsuzsa Gille has been elected to the Board of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). As the disciplinary representative appointed with the American Sociological Association, her three-year term begins this month and...

Ruby Mendenhall received the A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentorship, and Service from the Association of Black Sociologists. This award was established in 1998. Named in honor of A. Wade Smith, Ph.D., the award recognizes an ABS member for...

In an interview with Craig Chamberlain, Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi discusses the recent election in Iran, held in the shadow of rising international tensions over Iran’s nuclear program. Read Full Article

Professor Mendenhall, an expert on poverty and social mobility, speaks with News Bureau Social Sciences editor Craig Chamberlain. Read Full Article