Archana Ramanujam is a doctoral candidate in Sociology who spent this past fall on the island of Curaçao to conduct essential archival research for her dissertation.

The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce the launch of a new doctoral certificate program.

Congratulations to faculty member Lisa Di Carlo, who has been selected as a Provost's Faculty Teaching Fellow for the next two years. 

Congratulations to faculty members Margot Jackson, Zhenchao Qian, and Emily Rauscher (with the assistance of organizing committee members Jennifer Candipan, John Logan, Ananda Martin-Caughey and Michela Musto) on successfully organizing and hosting the Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) summer meeting at Brown University. 

Congratulations to Michael Kennedy, who was interviewed by the Center for International Relations Foundation in Warsaw, Poland for their "Zoom the World" series.

Congratulations to Shane Martin on being promoted to Lead IT Support Consultant, effective July 1, 2024.

Congratulations to Rachel Wetts for receiving a two-year Russell Sage Foundation grant for her proposal, "Climate Politics as Status Politics: Struggles over the Symbolic Worth of Educational Credentials in the American Climate Change Debate."

Department of Sociology - May 3-5, 2024. Watch the photo recap.

Congratulations to Jennifer Candipan, who has been appointed as the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of Sociology, effective July 1, 2024.

Congratulations Emily Rauscher on being named Chair-Elect of the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Education Section.

Congratulations to Josh Pacewicz on being elected Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Political Sociology Section.

The Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) invites all scholars working in the field of social stratification and social mobility to contribute to the 2024 RC28 Summer Conference.