Ensuring the Safety of People With Disabilities During Climate Change
Assistant Professor Molly M. King says FEMA hasn’t prepared enough to protect people with disabilities from climate change. Her critical realist model for climate justice could bring those concerns to the forefront.
Sociology Club is Back!
Sociology Club now a Registered Student Organization
President of the American Sociological Association speaks at SCU
Cecilia Menjívar lectures on the Continuum of Violence in the Lives of Central American Women Asylum Seekers
Best Young Adult Nonfiction Book: International Latino Book Awards
Professor Alma Garcia: Club Oasis: Childhood Memories
Putting Sociology into Practice
SCU’s Sociology Department supports their majors through an internship program focused on career exploration, research opportunities, and post-graduate success.
Megan Imai '23 gets REAL research experience
Working as a Research Assistant, studying what it’s like to work as a Research Assistant
Brazil-US Colloquium on Communication Studies
Department sponsors international colloquium bringing together scholars from three continents.
Emma Kemper '22 builds research skills
Emma's experience as a research assistant in the sociology department
Media Sociology Symposium
Department sponsors symposium in August 2021.
Maria Gregg '21 presents at National Conference
Recent Graduate presents Honors Thesis at American Sociological Association Annual Conference
Judith Li '23
Research with Prof. Di helps her understand contextualization is not only capturing a cross-section of contemporary time, but also considering how history shapes a community with common memory.
Sociology Awards 2021
This spring, the Department of Sociology is proud to announce seven majors as its 2020-2021 senior award winners
Silicon Valley Sociological Review Releases Volume 19
Department undergraduate research journal highlights exemplary student work
Nichols and Chiaraluce Promoted
Laura Nichols promoted to Full Professor and Cara Chiaraluce promoted to Senior Lecturer
Chuck Powers Retires
Charles Powers retires after more than two decades at SCU
Faculty Updates Spring 2021
See what professors have been up to this quarter!
Fuller Picture
Anjali Rangaswami ’21 noticed some gaps in research on sexual harassment in higher education. So she won a Fulbright to do it herself.
Anjali Rangaswami ’21 named Fulbright Research Award Winner
Sociology major among 17 SCU students and alumni to be named Fulbright Semi-finalists.
