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Ranked
20th among all sociology departments nationally
by the U.S. News and World Report’s annual
rating system, our department has an internationally
reputed faculty in the specialty areas of
Comparative Sociology,
Demography (ranked 8th), Development,
Gender
Work and Family (ranked 5th),
Military
Sociology,
Social Psychology,
Stratification,
and
Theory.
Our
close affiliation with several research centers
such as the
Maryland Population Research
Center,
Center for Research on
Military Organization,
Maryland Stress &
Health Program, and
Center for Innovation
offers students and faculty excellent opportunities
to collaborate.
With
our combination of size, intellectual diversity,
strong specialty areas, and the Washington area
location, we believe that we provide an ideal
setting to pursue the
B.A.
or the Ph.D.
degrees in Sociology.
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What's new?
June 25th and 26th -- Maryland will host the American Time Use Survey Conference. Many past and present Sociology grad students and faculty will be presenting papers. The conference recognizes Maryland's leading position in time use studies.
Link for the American Time Use Survey Conference
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In
the Spotlight
Patricia Hill-Collins
was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her honorary degree cited her as a "major social theorist whose scholarship, research and activism have focused on the intersecting power relations of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nationality."
Harriet Presser was given the 2009 Stuart Rice Award for career achievement from the District of Columbia Sociological Society. The award is given to a distinguished senior member of the Society who has made a significant contribution to the discipline.
The Population Association of America awarded the first Harriet Presser award for contributions to demography and gender to Valerie Oppenheimer, professor emeritus of UCLA. The Maryland Population Research Center held a gala reception the evening before honoring Harriet's pioneering career in demography.
John Pease wins UMD System, Board
of Regents, Faculty Award for Excellence in
Mentoring
David
Segal
is the 2008 Recipient of the ASA Award for Public Understanding of Sociology... |
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