College of Arts and Sciences

Cielle Brady, a sociology undergraduate student, has been selected for a Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship with East End Neighborhood House Association. The Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship Program provides students and recent graduates with 11-week, full-time, paid summer internships, working with Cleveland nonprofit and public sector organizations. East End Neighborhood House (East...

Read more

Sociology Professor Jessica Kelley was honored with the 2022 John S. Diekoff Award for Graduate Teaching for her outstanding approach in the classroom, especially related to statistics and research methods. Her classes begin with the reassurance, "Statistics can be learned by everyone." Professor Kelley empowers students to feel confidence...

Read more

Three sociology graduate students were recognized during an award ceremony on April 26, 2022. Casey Albitz: Graduate Dean's Instructional Excellence Award Polina Ermoshkina: Ruth Barber Moon Award Poshan Dahal: Marie Haug Award Each spring, faculty and staff nominate students from their department for awards offered through the School of Graduate Studies. The Graduate...

Read more

In 2022, five students were initiated into the Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) International Sociology Honor Society and 13 students were recipients of Undergraduate Awards. The 2022 AKD initiates and award recipients were recognized in a ceremony on April 22, 2022. This year's AKD initiates were Mya-Ariel Blake, Kathryn Jennie Freeman,...

Read more

On April 8, 2022, the Department of Sociology hosted its second spring colloquium. Dr. Beth Richie delivered her lecture, Anti-Violence Scholarship and Racial Justice Activism: Reflections on Abolition Feminism, at 10:30 am in the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115. To hear more on the...

Read more

The Western Reserve Abolitionist Project (WRAP), a new student group that emerged out of Professor Tim Black’s course, Racial Inequality and Mass Imprisonment in the US, launched in the spring of 2022. The group hosted their first event on April 11, 2022. The event, entitled Eroding Mass Incarceration: Pursuing Abolitionism...

Read more