Department of Sociology
Faculty NewsEnobong (Anna) Branch had a paper published (2007) in the journal of Race, Gender & Class called, "The Creation of Restricted Opportunity due to the Intersection of Race & Sex: Black Women in the Bottom Class." Rob Faulkner with Howie Becker published a paper that was also presented in Paris at the Sorbonne, a conference in Ethnography and the arts: Ethnologie francaise, XXXXVIII, 2008, p. 15-21. Jennifer Lundquist (PI) received a $160,000 National Science Foundation Grant, "Do Race Disparities in Infant Mortality Persist in a Setting of Reduced Racial Inequality? An Investigation of Infant Outcomes in the Military." Graduate Student NewsSeveral graduate students presented their research at the Department's graduate student recruitment event, March 27-28: Dustin Avent-Holt, Brittnie Aiello, Irene Boeckmann, Dan Burland, Jen Geertsma, Laura Heston, Dana Huyser deBernardo, Kat Jones, Jessica Looze, Amrita Pande and Shawn Trivette. Special thanks and appreciation to Kathleen Hulton for organizing this incredible event. Nicole Stokes-DuPass received an American Scandinavian Foundation $5000 Grant to continue her research in Denmark this summer. *****
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Welcome to Sociology!
We are an intellectually exciting and typically rambunctious community of citizen scholars. Every year around 150 new undergraduate majors and 10 to 15 new PhD students join our ranks. We added two new faculty members this past year and will add five more next year. We are a generalist sociology department with a wide variety of research interests. Recent books and articles by faculty members have addressed such diverse issues as the creation of global capitalist markets, comparative adolescent sexuality, Viagra, democratization, the revival of the labor movement, workplace discrimination, grammars of death, white collar criminal conspiracies, comparative family policy, comparative racial inequality, the socialization of Chinese adopted children, Latin American social movements, women's workforce and men’s household labor participation, and many other topics. The department is at once committed to excellent education, basic research and to be a leader in the project of public sociology.
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Events & AnnouncementsStudent Sociological Council Organized! Undergraduate Sociology majors met for a second time on Thursday, March 27 to elect a steering committee for the Council: Maris Joniec, Jill McLaughlin, Kristen Redford, Christopher Ward and Maridath Wilson. Updates of upcoming events and activities will be announced soon.
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Department of Sociology, Thompson
Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 phone: 413.545.0577 fax:413.545.3204 email: Sociology |
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