Department of Sociology

Check out Professor Noel A. Cazenave's new book, Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring.

Please join us in congratulating the 2023 winners of the Sociology Department Awards!

Congratulations to our three winners of the 2023 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship award, Davina Barbee, Carol Ann Jackson and Dunahay Pereyra! They will each receive summer fellowships of $4,000! Sociology was very well represented within a very competitive pool of 30 applicants across 15 programs/departments.

Alumna Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19 (CLAS) and her undergraduate advisor, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Bandana Purkayastha, discuss how one late night phone call accelerated their connection toward a family-like bond that they still share today. Listen here!

Congratulations to our very own Ph.D. student, Rianka Roy, for serving as a delegate to a United Nations conference in March 2023! “Roy ’21 MA, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, served as one of 20 delegates representing the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), a nonprofit professional network of feminist sociologists and activists, at the […]

Professor Mary Bernstein was recently featured in RESPECT-NYC, a documentary about the effects of gun violence produced by the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Please join us for the fourth installment of the Spring 2023 Pipeline to Publishing workshop! Being discussed is Lauren Danielowski's circulated paper, “Examining Reproductive Health Narratives from Smith College’s Population & Reproductive Health Oral History Archive”.

Please see the attached document for a complete list of the Fall 2023 Graduate Courses. SOCIOLOGY GRAD COURSES FALL ’23

Congratulations to Professor David Embrick and his collaboration with the School of Engineering for receiving a $2.86 million grant from the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration!

Please join us for the third installment of the Spring 2023 Pipeline to Publishing workshop! Being discussed is Dunahay's circulated paper, “From Feeling Sick to Being Ill: How Young Women Experience Chronic Illness”.