sociology

By John Garcia With summer just around the corner, students are looking forward to the sunshine and an exciting lineup of summer classes. Undergraduate registration for the summer semester starts today (April 12), depending on the school (graduate program registration may already have started or…

The Department of Sociology, Department of History and African and African American Studies will collaborate to host a talk by Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, assistant professor of sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced.…

Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology, has been speaking across the country about the themes in her new book, Are We the 99%?, including intersectionality, contemporary protest, the Occupy movement and its legacies, and the current moment of protest—including responding to…

Spencier Ciaralli, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, was awarded a $20,000 American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The AAUW empowers women and girls through research, education and advocacy. Over the past 132 years, the organization has…

The Department of Sociology will host a talk titled “Examining the Health Consequences of Race, Skin Color, and School Context” Friday, Feb. 26, at 12:30 p.m. Taylor Hargrove, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the presentation. Hargrove’s research…

Years: Fourth-yearsMajors: Biology and sociology (Kiana Loo) and political science and sociology (Vanessa Pilatova) For fourth-year students Kiana Loo and Vanessa Pilatova, volunteer work and community involvement have been key themes during their time at Case Western Reserve University. In fact,…

Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a book published titled Are We the 99%?: The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality. Through the book, she explored inequality, activism and intersectional feminism amidst…

The pandemic has exposed the abhorrent and deadly conditions inside our prisons. Join the Department of Sociology to hear from a panel of scholars and activists discussing the history of prison movements and their prospects for addressing the crisis today. The event, titled “Prison Resistance:…

Join the Department of Sociology Friday, Oct. 9, from 12:45 to 2:15 p.m. for its first virtual colloquium of the semester, "Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: History, Theory, and Lessons for the Present," with Charisse Burden-Stelly of Carleton College and the University of Chicago. The event is…

Brian Gran, professor in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, has been selected as a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) by the U.S. Department of State. During his year-long fellowship, Gran, who has secondary…