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.

Congratulations to Neha Lund on being awarded the Alden Speare, Jr. Award, which recognizes superior achievement in the Master of Arts thesis within the Department of Sociology.

Congratulations to Prudence Carter on being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Congratulations to Jocelyn Bell for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Reimagining Within-Movement Conflict: Ideology and the Anti-Sex Trafficking Movement.”

Congratulations to Yasemin Bavbek for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, "Layered Imperialities: Extraterritoriality, American Education and Humanitarianism in the Late Ottoman Empire."

Congratulations to Carrie Spearin for receiving the 2024 William G. McLoughlin Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences.

Congratulations to Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve for receiving the Meenakshi Narain Excellence in Research Mentoring (ERM) Award.

Congratulations to Jonathan Tollefson, who has been selected as the winner of S4's 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize for a paper entitled, "Racial environmental inequality in US cities, 1880-1930."

Congratulations to Syeda Masood for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Empire and Identity: Racialization of the Afghan Middle Class Under U.S. Occupation.”

Congratulations to Amanda Ball for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, "Securitized By Design: Security, Space, and Race in Colonial Nairobi."

Congratulations to the Department of Sociology's Academic Department Manager, Tami Mildner, on successfully completing the DOF Financial Reporting Certification Program here at Brown.

Congratulations to Lisa Di Carlo for being selected to be an Equitable Learning Inquiry (ELI) Fellow through the Sheridan Center for 2024-25.

Congratulations to Lisa Di Carlo for being selected as one of five recipients of the President's Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance for 2023-24.

Congratulations to María Fernanda López Portillo Alcocer for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “The Bureaucratic Politics of Indigeneity in Mexico.”

Congratulations to Bryan Natividad for successfully defending his dissertation entitled, “Invisible or Invincible? An Empirical Analysis of University Disability Support Services & Academic Success.”

Congratulations to Kevin Mwenda, who, in collaboration with his research colleagues, has received an award from the National Science Foundation Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program for their project entitled, "Household adaptation amongst hot spots of land degradation vulnerability and bright spots of resilience."

Congratulations to Clare Wan for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “From Streets to Screens: Unfolding Market Dynamics through a Marketplace Development in China.”

Congratulations to Laura López-Sanders for her newly published book, The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market (NYU Press, January 2024).

Congratulations to Emily Rauscher for being a recipient of a Spencer Foundation Grant (“Hidden Money: School-Supporting Non-Profit Funds and Rising Inequality”).

Rachel Wetts' article, "Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate" was published earlier last month (Nov. 2023) in the American Journal of Sociology. The paper investigates how the economic power of interest groups -- and the cultural appeal of their messages -- shape which voices have received media coverage in the US climate change debate.

Congratulations to Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve for her leadership and participation in the Mumia Abu-Jamal Conference and Research.

Congratulations to Michael Kennedy for his recently published op-ed piece,"Public Sociology’s Expression: From Reagan to Trump, from the USA to Global Social Change" in The Society Pages.