On April 20, 2021, Derek Chauvin was found guilty in the death of George Floyd. But despite the overwhelming evidence -- including the infamous video of him kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for more than 9 minutes -- that verdict was hardly a foregone conclusion.

Scott Frickel with co-authors published an opinion piece within Scientific American: Scientists Are Becoming More Politically Engaged – Here’s what that means beyond the 2020 elections. In many ways, science itself was on the ballot this Election Day.

Michael Kennedy has published an article in The Progressive Post where he discusses "the cultural politics defining the 2020 Election" detailing divisions within the United States, misinformation, and risings of extremism. "America is not only more divided than progressives imagined. What is worse is that we are polarized in ways that Trump conjures."

On 8/31/20 the Polish movement, Solidarność, can be called 40 years old.

Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve and Professor Michael Kennedy discuss "engaged scholarship" during the COVID-19 crisis.

Ph.D. Candidate Tina Park was one of the two Brown graduate students achieving the Academic Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan Community Award for this year.

Drastic measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have had an unintended & positive impact on the health of our environment.

Even in crisis, society doesn't stop.

Professor Jayanti Owens has been selected as a 2020 William T. Grant scholar.

Professor of Sociology Jose Itzigsohn and Professor Karida Brown of UCLA, Ph.D. Brown University, have published their latest book entitled The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. This book, published by NTU Press, provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought.​

prabhdeep kehal, PhD Candidate for Socialogy, has been awarded The Charles V.

Over the past few months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has built up a massive military presence on Russia’s border with Ukraine.

Global and Transnational Sociology is one of the great strengths of Brown's sociology department. It is also a section of the American Sociological Association, and two of our faculty have been its chair -- Nitsan Chorev in 2015-16, and in this academic year Michael D. Kennedy. And this year, Ricarda Hammer, one of the department's graduate students, is the student representative on the section's council.

Professor John Logan has been awarded a new 5-year grant from NIH ($2.1 million) to support research with confidential census data on residential mobility and neighborhood change since 2000.