Uncategorized Archives - Department of Sociology

Olugbenga Okunade

November 27, 2023
GradStudent, GradStudents

Education BSc Sociology - University of Ibadan, Nigeria MSc African Development - The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Research Interests Medical Sociology, Social Inequality, Development Studies, Migration and Diaspora Study Email ooo50@case.edu

Study Abroad in Italy for Spring Break

December 22, 2021

Where? Rome and Florence, Italy

Why? Explore differences in US and Italian family life.

How? Immerse yourselves in Italian culture, visit local schools and the Vatican’s medical system, meet with Italy’s policy makers, explore UNICEF’s international policy center.

Cost? $2,800 per student. Students responsible for flight cost and scheduling.

Please click here to send contact information and questions.

2015 Alum Cory Cronin awarded tenure at Ohio University

October 12, 2021

We have just received word that Cory Cronin (Ph.D. 2015) was awarded tenure at Ohio University, where he is on the faculty of the College of Health Sciences and Professions. Cory's dissertation, entitled "Hospitals' Choices and the Institutional Environment: The Role of Community Benefit in the Health Care Sector"...

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...

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...

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