Congratulations to Associate Professor David Embrick on being elected for the SSSP presidency for 2026-2027! He will serve as President-Elect in 2025-2026.   From the SSSP’s website: The SSSP is an interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in the application of critical, scientific, and humanistic perspectives to the study of vital social […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the Sociology departmental awards for 2025! 

Sociology Department faculty often collaborate with undergraduate students on research through independent studies, directed research, internships, lab participation, grant-funded research, and the Undergraduate Research Grant competition.

Check out this article written about Sociology Professor Noël Cazenave's newest memoir, "Cazenave Eyes: Memories of Racism and Racism Studies."

Congratulations to all of the undergraduate students who presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference this March! This year's conference theme was "Building Solidarity to Break Cycles of Repression."

We are pleased to announce that Ryan Talbert has been selected as the recipient of the 2024-2025 Honors Faculty Member of the Year Award.

Graduate courses for Fall 2025

In a recent Forbes article, Michelle Travis highlights gender bias and its connection to employee burnout in women, drawing from Associate Professor Christin Munsch's 2024 study on the gender disparities in rewarding overwork.

Congratulations to Professor Bhoomi Thakore on her recent feature in UConn's student-run newspaper The Daily Campus.

This Wednesday, Princeton University Sociology and Public Affairs Professor Dr. Filiz Garip participated in the Sociology department's colloquium series.