News and Events

Congratulations to Erik Love

2013-04-12T16:42:08Z

We congratulate Professor Erik Love on his publication, "Gendered Vulnerabilities and Muslim American Civil Rights Advocacy," in Geographies of Privilege, France Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener, eds., New York: Routledge, 2013.

Noorjahan Akbar is Grand-Prize Winner in Glamour Magazine Competition

2013-04-05T11:55:44Z

The Department warmly congratulates sociology major Noorjahan Akbar '14 on winning the grand prize in Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women Contest. A Kabul native, Noorjahan is the co-founder of Young Women for Change, a non-profit organization that works to improve the lives of Afghan women through social and political participation, political empowerment, advocacy and increased access to education.

You can read more about this outstanding news here, and more about Noorjahan here.

Congratulations to Amy C. Steinbugler

2013-04-02T14:25:04Z

We congratulate Professor Amy Steinbugler on her recently published book, Beyond Loving: Intimate Racework in Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Interracial Relationships. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Sociology senior awarded Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for 2013

2013-03-07T15:47:33Z

Giovania Tiarachristie was awarded one of 30 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellows for 2013. The program "honors and supports the graduate education of 30 New Americans--permanent residents--each year. The fellow receives tuition and living expenses over two academic years to support their field of study at any university in the United States. Fellows are selected on the basis of merit--emphasizing creativity, originality, initiative and sustained accomplishment."

Congratulations G!

Fall 2012 Newsletter

2012-10-03T10:31:45Z

For the most recent news about the Sociology Department, please view the Fall 2012 Newsletter.

Congratulations to Sociology Majors!

2012-04-11T10:42:36Z

Caitlin Ruggeri '12 will be attending New York University to pursue a Master's of Public Health in Community and International Health in the fall of 2012. Congratulations, Caitlin!

Colin Macfarlane '12 has received a grant to fund his MA/Ph.D. Sociology program at the University of Delaware beginning in the fall 2012. Congratulations, Colin!

Congratulations to Mauricio (Reece) Torres! He will be a Robert E. McNair Fellow in the Sociology Department at Syracuse this fall.

Sarah McDonald '12 was accepted into SUNY New Paltz's post-bacc program for next year. Congratulations, Sarah!

Fall 2011 Newsletter

2011-09-16T16:12:12Z

Spring courses and upcoming events.

Teach for America Program

2011-06-07T11:01:26Z

Congratulations to Airlia Choyce, 2011, sociology and Spanish double major, who will teach Spanish to students in grades 6-12 in Philadelphia, PA, in the Teach for America Program.

FALL 2011 LATINO MOSAIC in Central Pennsylvania

2011-02-11T11:41:50Z

Based upon work done in the previous two Mexican Migration Mosaics (1998, 2003), the Community Studies Center is offering a Latino Mosaic for fall 2011 which expands our focus to Latinos in the U.S., and, in particular, to Latinos in Central Pennsylvania. This dynamic and interdisciplinary program involves a cluster of courses that engage students in in-depth fieldwork with a range of Latino communities in Central Pennsylvania, including Mexican migrant workers in Adams County. Students will have the opportunity to do internships and/or independent studies in day care centers for migrant children, teaching ESL in elementary schools, visiting and interpreting in health clinics for migrant workers, interviewing farmers and workers in the orchard camps, and investigating how immigration policy affects the lives of (im)migrant workers and their families in both sending and host communities. We will also focus on how Latino labor benefits U.S. employers and community reception. Courses offered: SPAN 239 Spanish for the Health Professions; HIST 315-01 Latino Immigration; AMST 200-01 Latinos in the U.S.; SOCI 313-01/HIST 315-02/ANTHRO 244 Fieldwork Practicum; SOCI/HIST 500 Independent Research Internship. Applications for the Latino Mosaic are due by March 22, 2011. If interested, please plan to attend the Info Session on Tuesday, February 15, at noon in the Community Studies Center. For more information, contact Professor Marcelo Borges (borges@dickinson.edu).

Spring 2010 Newsletter

2010-05-20T09:17:46Z

Spring 2010 Sociology Newsletter.

Sociology Senior Receives Peace Project Grant

2010-04-09T09:14:47Z

Anna Valiante '10, a sociology major from Wilson, Wyo., has been awarded the $10,000 Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace grant for her proposal, “Pirambu Peace Project: Building skills and empowering the children of the Pirambu neighborhood in Fortaleza, Brazil, Summer 2010.”

The eight-week project is designed to empower adolescents from the Pirambu neighborhood of Fortaleza through photography and English language skills. Students will be recruited from two local high schools and will work with ACARTES, a local organization that serves disadvantaged youth in the area.