Department News

On December 6, 2011, a ceremony was held by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the investiture of an endowed chair for Bruce Carruthers.

2011 Newsletter

Alok Nadig has won a Fall 2011 Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant for his project Legal Implications of Gendered Conceptions of Homosexuality in India in the Past Ten Years.

Bruce Carruthers has been named to a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair (2011).

Georgi Derluguian has been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, an honorary doctorate, from the University of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, 2011. The university is located in one of Georgi's field sites: the man who was central to his book Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus, for instance, was a native of Kabardino-Balkaria.

James Mahoney, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, has won four major awards from the American Sociological Association and American Political Science Association for his book Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective.

Steven Epstein has been elected Chair of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, for a two-year term to commence in 2013.

Nicola Beisel, Georgi Derluguian, Steven Epstein, and Karrie Snyder have been selected by students for this year's Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.

Erin McDonnell has won the Art Stinchcombe Dissertation Prize in Organization Studies from the Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern group.

Latest Faculty Books

Charles Camic
(with N. Gross and M.
Lamon) Social Knowledge
in the Making, University
Chicago Press, 2011

Bruce Carruthers(with Laura Ariovich)Money and Credit: A
Sociological Approach,
Polity Press, 2010

John Hagan
Who Are the Criminals?: The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan, Cambridge Press, 2010

Steven Epstein (with K. Wailoo, J. Livingston, and R. Aronowitz)
THREE SHOTS AT PREVENTION: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions, Johns Hopkins Press, 2010

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About the Department

Sociologists study systems made up of relations among people, such as families, formal organizations, ethnic groups, or countries and their politics. The Northwestern Sociology Department concentrates especially on those relations that create and maintain inequalities, looking at the social movements, legal and economic systems, institutions, organizations, and cultural forms that shape, redress, or defend these systems of inequality. Read more

Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011

Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll

Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented: Robert Vargas

Events

January 31, 2012: Ethnography Workshop: Armando Lara-Millan, Sociology. 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM More information.

February 2, 2012: Colloquium: Ko Kuwabara, PhD - Columbia University. 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM More information.

February 2, 2012: Culture and Society Workshop: Discussion. 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM More information.

February 6, 2012: Klopsteg Lecture: ELIZABETH LUNBECK . 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM More information.

February 6, 2012: Applied Quantative Methods Workshop: Cassidy Puckett, Sociology. 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM More information.

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