12/20/2016 - Professor Sandefur's research on legal representation for low-income and indigent litigants is now featured on National Public Radio, on the American Bar Foundation website, and in the Wall Street...
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12/15/2016 - It’s axiomatic that history is written by the winners. But what if you were part of a group that was so marginalized by society that you often don’t even make it into the history books? This is the...
12/01/2016 - Devin Weiss, of Northbrook, Illinois, has been named a Marshall Scholar. A 2013 graduate of Glenbrook North High School, Weiss is a senior at the University of Illinois majoring in sociology. ...
12/01/2016 - Professor Mendenhall and her collaborators are being recognized for their work, “Rescuing Lost History: Using Big Data to Recover Black Women’s Lived Experiences.” The HPC Innovation Excellence Award...
11/15/2016 - Framing the Global Fellow Zsuzsa Gille recently discussed with us her book Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud: The Politics of Materiality in the European Union, published by IU Press. In the...
07/19/2016 - Tom VanHeuvelen's paper ("Recovering the Missing Middle: A Mesocomparative Analysis of Within-Group Inequality") has won an Honorable Mention from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section of ASA...
07/15/2016 - Rightist movements in Europe are on the rise, and Donald Trump has astoundingly hijacked the American conservatives’ platform. Yet at the same time thousands of miles farther in Iran, the radical...
07/15/2016 - Our own Professor Assata Zerai has accepted the position of Associate Chancellor for Diversity! This appointment recognizes Professor Zerai's campus-wide leadership in mentoring and promoting...
06/13/2016 - The following Sociology professors were elected to positions with the American Sociological Association. Please join us in congratulating them. Phyllis Baker was elected to the council for the...
06/04/2016 - Rising income inequality has been brought front and center as an issue in this year’s presidential campaign. But do we really know what’s driving it, and the keys to closing the gap? Are popular...
05/02/2016 - By now, no one is debating the fact that economic inequality has grown substantially in the past few decades. It seems that almost every day there’s a new report showing that incomes...
05/02/2016 - It is often said that history is written by the victors. But it's probably more true to say it is written by the people who have the opportunity to write. One example of this is the study of black...
04/29/2016 - Life as Politics is a collection of essays and fieldwork articles originally published by Asef Bayat in a range of academic outlets between the years 2001 and 2009. It is a prophetic work....
03/09/2016 - On February 29, Professor Sandefur spoke about her research on public experience with justice problems and civil legal aid at a meeting co-chaired by US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch and the...
02/05/2016 - Monica McDermott has been awarded a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation ($150,000, with collaborators Eric Knowles from NYU and Jennifer Richeson from Northwestern). The grant title is "Inequality...