College of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Sociology 2019 Achievements Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 25 from 5:00 - 6:30 PM. At this year's ceremony we will recognize students being initiated into the Sociology Honor Society and students who are recipients of undergraduate awards. Kara Young, Assistant Professor in the Department...

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Thursday, April 4, 2019 for “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” presented by Tey Meadow, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University. The lecture will be held in Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 108 from 11:30 - 1:30 PM. Lunch...

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Jessica Kelley has been appointed Co-Editor, with Professor Roland J. Thorpe of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, of the book series Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Springer Publishing).  In each of their five years in the term, Drs. Kelley and Thorpe will select the theme for the...

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Monday, March 4, 2019 for “Never-Aging Masculinities Give Way to Aging Masculinities” presented by Edward H. Thompson, Jr., Professor Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University. The lecture will be held in Mather Memorial Room 201,...

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Eva Kahana's recent book, Disability and aging: learning from both to empower the lives of older adults, received Outstanding Academic Title recognition from Choice, the publishing unit for a division of the American Library Association. Choice publishes a prestigious list of Outstanding Academic Titles each year. The list is...

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Makela Hayford (BA 2018) has been invited to participate as a Fellow in the 2018-19 Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellows program. Only nine Fellowships were awarded from an applicant pool drawn from 18 states. As a Fellow, Makela will support the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and the Sustainable Cleveland...

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