On October 20, Dale Dannefer delivered a keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gerontology held in Vancouver. Dale's talk was entitled "Opening the Social: Sociological Imagination, Age and the Life Course."
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Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and author of acclaimed book, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology,visited the Department of Sociology on October 14-15.
Eva Kahana was recently featured in The Daily in "The trust older patients place in doctors can compromise their medical care: study." The article discusses findings from an NIH funded research study in which data was collected from a diverse pool of 806 older adults from a large retirement...
You are invited to join the Department of Sociology on Monday, October 15, 2018 for “W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter” presented by Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University.
Eva Kahana and Jeffrey Kahana, authors of the 2017 book “Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults” will be delivering an evening lecture on August 7, 2018 at the Siegel Beachwood Facility. The lecture, “From Challenges to Opportunities: Rethinking Disability in Old Age,” will be based on...
Mary Erdmans receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Poland in Social Sciences to conduct research on return migration for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Mary will be affiliated with the university of Gdansk and while in Poland she will be collecting interviews with return migrants and conducting archival research at the...