Congratulations to Danielle Falzon for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “The Business of Adaptation: Reproducing Inequality in the Face of Climate Crisis.”

Michael D. Kennedy, professor of sociology and international and public affairs at Brown University, is an expert on East European social movements and system change. A candidate to be vice president of the American Sociological Association, Kennedy teaches a provocative sociology course, Power, Knowledge and Justice in Global Social Change.

Congratulations to Meg Collier for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Inequality, Brokerage, and the Mobilization of Social Capital in Elementary Schools”.

Congratulations to Sam Brady for being awarded the Alden Speare, Jr. Award, which recognizes superior achievement in the Master of Arts thesis within the Department of Sociology.

Congratulations to Yasemin Bavbek for being awarded the Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award

Congratulations to Chantel Pheiffer for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Internal Migration, Urban Living, and the Health Penalty among Women in South Africa”.

Congratulations to Chinyere Agbai for successfully defending her dissertation entitled, “Wealth Begins at Home: A Historical Analysis of the Role of the 1944 GI Bill in Linking, Race, Place, Wealth, and Health in America.”

Congratulations to Quinn Bernier for successfully defending his dissertation, “Risky Business: Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania.”

Congratulations to prabh kehal for successfully defending their dissertation entitled, “Racializing Meritocracy: Ideas of Excellence and Exclusion in Faculty Diversity."

Congratulations to Kristen McNeill for successfully defending her dissertation, “Cultural Foundations of Creditworthiness: Gendered Evaluations of Borrowers in Colombian Microcredit.”

Congratulations to Izzy Notter for successfully defending her dissertation, “Intergenerational Transfers Between Adult Children and Their Aging Parents.”

Congratulations to Amanda Zagame for successfully defending her dissertation, “Understanding Fathering and Adolescents’ Wellbeing: Father Figures and Transition to Young Adulthood.”

Congratulations to Laura Garbes for successfully defending her dissertation, “Sound, Public Radio, and Particularistic Performance Standards in the Workplace.”

Congratulations to Liz Brennan on successfully defending her dissertation, “Autonomy Disrupted: Law, Technology, and its Impact on Professions’ Autonomy Following the Implementation of the Electronic Health Record.”

John was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association on February 28, 2022.

Michael Kennedy speaks with NBC 10 about his Friends of Ukraine initiative that seeks to send medical aid to the country.

Aaron Niznik has successfully defended his dissertation, “Cultivating the City: The Evolution of the Urban Gardening Movements in Boston, MA and Austin, TX.”

Professor John Diamond to join Brown University's Department of Sociology.

Co-authored by Professor Scott Frickel, Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation.

Professor Sandra Lynn Barnes to join Brown University's Department of Sociology.

Public sociology is quite attentive to the various publics that make up that general public our political leaders represent

For G. Wayne Miller of The Providence Journal, our own Dr. Michael D. Kennedy describes both COVID and 9/11 and its aftermath as “generation-making events” – events, he says, that profoundly affected people of his students’ ages, late teens and early twenties, in ways that will last their lifetimes. On a broader level, he asserts, each event affected all populations to some degree and “changed the institutions of our society.”

Jon Nelson has successfully defended his dissertation, "Insuring Inequality: The Role of FEMA in Unequal Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal New England."

Nicole Kreisberg has successfully defended her dissertation, “Nativity and Nativism in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment Discrimination Against Latino Immigrant Men.”