sociology

The Department of Sociology will host a lecture titled “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” presented by Tey Meadow, assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. The lecture will be held Thursday, April 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Ma...

A book by Eva Kahana, Distinguished University Professor of sociology and the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of the Humanities, won an Outstanding Academic Title recognition from Choice, the publishing unit for a division of the American Library Association. Kahana co-authored the volu...

Local author, attorney and historian James Robenalt will discuss the roots of the violent uprisings in Cleveland in the late 1960s, including the Hough Riot (1966) and Glenville Shootout (1968), and their political aftermath. His talk, titled “Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Gue...

Makela Hayford (CWR ‘18) was named a Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow and placed in the Mayor's Office of Sustainability to complete her fellowship. While at Case Western Reserve University, Hayford studied sociology. Hayford was given one of nine fellowships out of an applicant pool from...

Brian Gran, professor of sociology and law AND faculty associate of the Center for Policy Studies, served as a discussant during a United Nations (UN) Day of Discussion. The UN Committee on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights held this Day of Discussion to focus on the human right to science. Gran ...

Aldon Morris, the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, will give a presentation on campus titled “W.E.B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter.” The lecture will take place Monday, Oct. 15, from 1:30 ...

Placing trust in doctors to advocate for their health needs, older adults rarely ask for referrals to specialists, specific prescriptions, express concerns or follow-up after medical visits, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University. The findings highlight a disconnect between t...

The Department of Sociology will host a talk titled “Networked Individualism and the Digitization of Older Adults,” presented by Barry Wellman, co-director of the NetLab Network. His lecture will be held Friday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom. ...

The Social Justice Institute will hold its first monthly Research Lunch Series event of the semester Tuesday, Sept. 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Crawford Hall, Room A13. Dale Dannefer, the Selah Chamberlain Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, will present “Histo...

Brian Gran, associate professor of sociology, and Bill Lenart, a doctoral student, attended a meeting of the Science and Human Rights Coalition of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Gran gave a presentation to the coalition about his project, “Indicators of the Right to Sci...