05/20/2020 - Each year, the Department of Sociology gives out four year-end awards to students who have demonstrated exceptional work and dedication to Sociology that academic year. This year, senior Alexis...
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05/13/2020 - Each year, the Sociology Department gives out four awards. One is for the undergraduate student paper written that year which demonstrates exceptional research and writing. This year, Alexis Pantoja-...
04/29/2020 - The Department of Sociology is proud to announce that our graduate student, Shwetha Delanthamajalu, will receive the 2020 Marianne A. Ferber Scholarship from the Department of Gender & Women's...
04/22/2020 - Next Friday, May 1st, at 3pm the Sociology Department is hosting a panel discussion on Zoom, related to...
02/05/2020 - 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...
01/22/2020 - Professor Buckley was recently featured on an episode of the podcast "The 21st." In the episode, she discusses population loss in the state as well as her work with the watchdog organization The...
12/05/2019 - Sociology Colloquium A persistent challenge in democracies, particularly in industries controlled by professions, is for citizens and critics to be able to understand an industry sufficiently well...
11/19/2019 - Ms. Kathleen Ernst PhD student of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, United States delivered a significant donation of equipment for the Room for the Care of People with...
11/19/2019 - PhD student, Mona Khneisser, recently published an article in Jacobin about the uprising in Lebanon. Find the article here: ...
09/11/2019 - Poverty tourism, also known as slum tourism, often refers specifically to guided tours through the urban “slums” of the Global South. The practice has become a popular form of “development,” in a...
08/22/2019 - 2019, American Sociological Association, History of Sociology Section, Lifetime Achievement Award Norbert Wiley, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. Throughout his long and...
02/12/2019 - See the full article at Zippia, "These Are The 10 Best Colleges For Sociology Majors In Illinois For 2018".
10/04/2018 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rebecca Sandefur, a professor of sociology and of law at the University of Illinois, has been...
08/23/2018 - Ruby Mendenhall discusses a point during a meeting last spring with collaborators on an art exhibition, one of her many interdisciplinary projects. See the full article at the...
