This year our department produced an impressive number of publications. Check out some of the contributions that made their way into some very prestigious outlets!  Christin Munsch’s research identifying gender, racial and ethnic inequalities built into the Big Data demographic ascription tools that academics and companies draw on to understand the social world published in Nature Human […]

A special congratulations to David Embrick, who was a distinguished recipient of the American Sociological Association’s 2023 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award along with David L. Brunsma (Virginia Tech) for their “irreplaceable contributions to the studies of race and racism.” The ASA website for the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award states that the award “is given to an individual or individuals […]

We bid a very bitter-sweet farewell to Manisha Desai who will be joining Stonybrook as the Endowed Chair of Global Citizenship and Executive Director of The Center for Changing Systems of Power in the Fall. On behalf of your colleagues, the grads, undergrads, and community members we want to congratulate and thank you for your contributions that […]