Department Newsletter
Sociology Speaks听was our comprehensive annual newsletter, discontinued in 2011. Archived editions can are linked below, along with an earlier newsletter,听Social Moments, produced by grad students, and another earlier newsletter,听The Social Report, edited by Ritchie Lowry.
Part Two of our Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series 2009, The Nature of Nature, featuring Anne Fausto-Sterling and Dorothy Roberts; and Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series 2010, Capitalism in Crisis, featuring David Harvey, Michael Hardt, and Saskia Sassen; retirement of Ritchie Lowry and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom; profile of alumna Kelly Joyce, winner of ASA鈥檚 2010 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award; Ph.D. candidate Emilie Dubois wins Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize.
Part One of our Distinguished Visiting Scholar Series 2009, The Nature of Nature: Emily Martin on Sleepless in America and the Unsaid in Medical Diagnoses; new faculty members Brian Gareau and Sara Moorman; award winning sociologists Associate Professor Natasha Sarkisian, PhD candidate Michael Cermak, Romero Scholarship winner Jeans M. Santana, and many others; the initiation of the Poverty, Families, and Social Policy program; profile of Ph.D. alumna Avery Gordon.
Distinguished Visiting Scholars Giovanni Arrighi, Walden Bello, and Donatella della Porta on Social Justice and the New Globalization; the 2006-2008 Departmental Seminar Series; published 糖心vlog直播平台 Sociology undergraduate alumna Katherine Adam and co-author Professor Charles Derber; Public Sociology Initative at Boston College; ASA "Shils-Coleman" Prize for Social Theory winner William Wood; Alumna Sister Anne Munley, IHM, Ph.D. becomes President of Marywood University; Sharlene Hesse interviewed by David Karp.
Distinguished Visiting Scholars Nancy Naples, Francesca Polletta, and Frances Fox Piven on Social Movements; Sarah Willie's and Liza Featherstone's presentations at NAWCHE conferences; faculty members Charlie Derber and David Karp's discussion of Karp's latest book,听Is It Me Or My Meds?; Alumna Aimee Van Wagenen's examination of alumna Leah Schmalzbauer's research on Honduran transnational families.
Distinguished Visiting Scholars Tricia Rose, Alondra Nelson, and Prudence Carter on Black Social Thought and Research; New Hires Zine Magubane, C. Shawn McGuffey, and Natasha Sarkisian; Charles Derber's听Hidden Power; Bioterrorism: Fear, History, and Reality; the Geneology of Cyberpunk.
Richard Swedberg on Economic Sociology, Sarah Babb interviews Juliet Schor on the commodification of childhood, James Holstein on publishing, Eva Garroutte on identity and survival of Native America, Mike Malec on service trip to Nicaragua, Michael Moore visits 糖心vlog直播平台 campus.
Distinguished Visiting Scholars bell hooks, Mary Waters, and Michael Burawoy on Class and Social Inequality; an interview with Dr. Roseanna Means on addressing inequalities in health care; teach-in on the war in Iraq; 糖心vlog直播平台 sociology professors arrested for supporting strike for janitors; new hires Sarah Babb and Leslie Salzinger.
Distinguished Visiting Scholars Patricia Hill Collins, Sandra Harding, and Dorothy Smith on Feminist Thought in the Early 21st Century; Tahmeena Faryal of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan discusses the war on terrorism; Rob Kroes, Visiting Scholar from University of Amsterdam, discusses civilization in the U.S. and Europe.
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