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Sociology Seniors Kiana Loo and Vanessa Pilatova featured in The Daily

January 21, 2021

Kiana Loo and Venessa Pilatova, who are fourth year students in the Department of Sociology were featured in The Daily for their work with the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning. "It’s through CCEL that the suitemates got involved with political activism, volunteering together this fall to work the polls...

Three Professors of Sociology Publish Books This Year

March 10, 2021

A number of professors in the Department of Sociology have published books in the second half of 2020. Congratulations to Professors Cassi Pittman Claytor, Heather McKee Hurwitz, and Timothy Black! Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend by Cassi Pittman Claytor from Stanford University Press. New York City...

Department of Sociology Greives Passing of Boaz Kahana

January 21, 2021

Boaz Kahana, Professor Eva Kahana's husband and soul mate for 58 years and a colleague, collaborator, mentor and valued friend to generations of CWRU Sociology faculty, students, staff and alumnae, passed away on November 6 at age 86. Boaz was Professor of Psychology at Cleveland State University, where he...

Recording Available: Prison Resistance: Inside/Outside Movements to Transform U.S. Prisons

June 6, 2022

On Wednesday November 11th the Department of Sociology hosted our second virtual colloquium, Prison Resistance: Inside/Outside Movements to Transform U.S. Prisons. The recording of this colloquium is available for viewing here. Find out more about this colloquium and the speakers here.

Sociology Colloquium: Prison Resistance: Inside/Outside Movements to Transform U.S. Prisons

October 21, 2020

On Wednesday November, 11th The Department of Sociology will host our second virtual colloquium of the fall semester, "Prison Resistance: Inside/Outside Movements to Transform U.S. Prisons". The pandemic has exposed the abhorrent and deadly conditions inside our prisons. Join us as a panel of scholars and activists discuss the...

Sociology’s First Virtual Colloquium: “Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: History, Theory, and Lessons for the Present” with Dr. Charrise Burden-Stelly

October 14, 2020

On Friday, October 9th The Department of Sociology, along with The Department of History and African and African American Studies, hosted our first virtual colloquium of the semester. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly spoke to faculty and students about the history of modern U.S. racial capitalism and its implications for the...

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