Highlights

Founded by James Coleman, the Department has had a distinguished and productive record during its more than four decades of existence. Despite its small size, it ranks as one of the major Sociology departments in the nation according to the latest surveys. The department is strong in the sociology of education, social structure and personality, family, social policy, cross-national research, sociology of development, race and gender, sociology of immigration, and world-systems studies. Its graduates teach and conduct research in many of the major universities in the nation and abroad.

October 23, 2007 - Katrina Bell McDonald was sworn in by Governor O’Malley to an appointed position on the Maryland Humanities Council. 
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Johns Hopkins Ranked 8th among major Sociology departments in Faculty Scholarly Productivity.

Read more: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Summer break increases achievement gap. 

Read more: The Baltimore Examiner