The department has a history of concentrated research and teaching in two broad areas: Global social change and social inequality.
The Department of Sociology has earned a distinguished reputation as one of the most highly-regarded sociology programs in the United States.
Graduates conduct research in universities around the world and occupy key staff positions in a variety of sociological research organizations and government agencies.
Michael Levien will be graduating from the University of California, Berkeley and joining the Sociology department in July as an Assistant Professor. Michael’s research and teaching interests focus on sociology of development and globalization; political sociology; sociological theory; economic sociology; rural sociology; qualitative methods and India.
Congratulations to all! Laila Bushra – accepted a permanent teaching position at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan.
Ben Scully – accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and will be starting this July.
Shaohua Zhan – accepted an Assistant Research Fellow position at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Memorial contributions can be made directly to the Doris Roberts Entwisle Graduate Teaching Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University online: http://krieger.jhu.edu/giving. Type “Doris Entwisle Fellowship” into the ‘Other’ line of the online giving form. Obituary [...]
Ho-fung was interviewed on LA based station KPFK on the “Beneath the Surface” program about China’s debt crisis on Friday, April 19. Ho-fung’s portion of the interview begins at 43:00.
Exclusive: Princeling-Backed Firm Eyes $500 Million China Buyout Fund-Sources by Reuters
Study: Record Number Of People Are Cohabitating, Morning Edition, NPR, April 4, 2013 More and more Americans are opting to live together before they get married. That’s according to new federal data. And on average, [...]
