College of Arts and Sciences

Heather Hurwitz has been named a Freedman Fellow for 2019-2020 for her project entitled “Digitizing the Occupy Movement Archive to Create Research and Teaching Resources.” Heather will develop a public searchable database for the most comprehensive archive of documents surrounding the Occupy Wall Street movement. Read the full article...

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Seven students were initiated into the Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) International Sociology Honor Society and thirteen students were recipients of Undergraduate Awards during the Sociology department’s 2019 Achievements Awards Ceremony. The Gene S. Uyeki Memorial Lecture, “Sociology as an Everyday Practice,” was delivered by Assistant Professor of Sociology from...

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Congratulations to Timothy Goler and Kelly Melvin-Campbell for successfully defending their dissertations! DISSERTATION TITLES: “Racial Differences in Stressful Life Events, Coping and Psychological Well-being among Urban Older Adults” by Timothy Goler. “Who Is Talking With Whom? An Investigation of Community Policing and Inter-Agency Collaboration In a Rustbelt Secondary City: A Case Study”...

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Congratulations to Brian Gran for receiving the John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students through advising, mentoring and classroom teaching.   Congratulations, also, to sociology faculty and instructors who were nominated for the Jackson and Wittke Awards:  Spencier Ciaralli, Karie Feldman,...

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This year, five graduate students received prestigious awards from the University. Spencier Ciaralli received the Graduate Dean’s Instructional Excellence Award, Christine Schneider and Jiao Yu received the Marie Haug Award, and Reema Sen was awarded the Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship. These students were all honored at CWRU's Graduate Student...

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You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Friday, April 26 for “Food Schemas and the Psychic Differential of Eating” presented by Kara Young, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University. The lecture will be held in Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center,...

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