Professor Nicholas Christakis from Harvard University will make a special presentation entitled "Social Network Structure and Function Across Space and Time" at 12:00 PM on April 12th. Location: 114 Claire Fagin Hall
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Penn Sociology News
April 5, 2012
January 18, 2012
We are pleased to welcome Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva from Duke University. His research areas include racial stratification, social theory, critical race methods, political sociology, and Latin American and the Caribbean, and Epistemology. For more, visit his personal website.
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January 18, 2012
The National Science Foundation has just awarded a grant to Jerry A. Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology, and Linda Sax, UCLA Graduate School of Education. The three-year project is entitled “Trends in the Determinants of Gender Segregation Across STEM Majors, 1976-2006.”
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April 26, 2011
Congratulations to Matthew Fox, Carly Levitz and Sigrid Luhr, our 2011 graduating Sociology majors who have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa!
April 26, 2011
Randall Collins was awarded the American Sociological Association's 2011Distinguished Book Award, for "Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory"
April 13, 2011
Graduate student Jessica McCrory Calarco has been awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper award, termed the David Stevenson Award, by the Sociology of Education Section of the ASA.
March 16, 2011
The Fall 2011 Course Descriptions are now online for Advanced Registration.
March 4, 2011
Janice Madden was awarded The 2010 David E. Boyce Award for Leadership and Service in the Field of Regional Science.
February 17, 2011
Dr. Hans-Peter Kohler has been named the Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography in the School of Arts and Sciences.
December 21, 2010
Jerry A. Jacobs is the 2011 recipient of the Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society
November 8, 2010
Tukufu Zuberi was awarded the 2009 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for his book White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology.
November 8, 2010
Randall Collins is the 102nd President of the American Sociological Association.
November 8, 2010
Emily Hannum, Hyunjoon Park and Yuko Butler published a new book on globalization, changing demographics, and educational challenges in East Asia.
November 8, 2010
Renee Fox was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard University.
November 8, 2010
Paul Allison was named Fellow of the American Statistical Association.