Rebecca L. Sandefur has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Accessing Justice in Contemporary America: The Community Needs and Services Study" (SES-1123507) a community-sited, multi-method study investigating the...

"Our Revolution is Civil", an interview with Asef Bayat on the Revolt and Change in the Arab World is published in The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections in Contemporary Culture, Vol. 13, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 47-54.

Chike Coleman, Sociology, University of Illinois, Class of 2010  “Reel Reviews with Chike”  Urbana Public TV--Channel 6 Saturdays,  4:30-5:00  Find old episodes of the show: www.youtube.com/Chikec8 Find written film reviews:...

Ruby Mendenhall won the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the McNair Scholars Summer Research Institute.  Her student, Artesha Williams, received the Outstanding Scholar Award for her research on Black males’ sense of belonging on a predominantly White campus.

Our new colleague, Cynthia Buckley, joined a select group of specialists in an Expert Analytical Exchange for Ambassador Susan Elliot (Tajikistan) at the U.S. Department of State on August 1st.  Her presentation, " Labor Migration from Tajikistan: Opportunities, Risks and Obligations," used...

Grant Shoffstall's essay from our Spring '13 Newsletter on the upcoming movie, Freezing People is Easy, has been reprinted in the blog Biopolitical Times published by the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Five professors at the University of Illinois - Asef Bayat,Joy Harjo, Catherine Prendergast, ...

Professor Zsuzsa Gille was elected to the American Sociological Association Global and Transnational Sociology section"s council. Please join us in congratulating her.

The Racial Microaggressions Project, the work of a group of University of Illinois students and faculty including our own Professor Ruby Mendenhall, was referenced in two recent articles. One was the Huffington Post article Universities Are Trying to Teach Faculty How to Spot Microaggressions. The...