Tim Hallett named 2021 recipient of Helen Lopata Mentor Excellence award winner from the Society for Study of Symbolic Interaction
Dr. Pamela Braboy Jackson named Provost Professor and recipient of the 2021 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award
Pescosolido elected to National Academy of Sciences
Jennifer Lee awarded the Inclusive Excellence Award
Pamela Jackson and Christy Erving's article “Race-Ethnicity, Social Roles, and Mental Health: A Research Update,” was chosen for the North Central Sociological Association's Scholarly Achievement Award
Krystina Millar and Caroline Brooks' recently published article in the International Journal for Transgender Health
Bernice Pescosolido and Byunkyu Lee were named as finalists in the 2021 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize.
A recent article in Glamour magazine highlighted research by IU sociologist Jessica Calarco regarding the pandemic's grave impact on working women with children.
New IU study by Department of Sociology professor Anna Mueller finds most high-school age youth are willing to wear masks.
Click on the new trustee grants to see our faculty (Brea Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, Dina Okamoto) and a former student (Tamara van der Does) announced as new Russell Sage awardees on two grants (Computational Social Science & Integrating Biology and Social Science).
A closed environment of competitive achievement and suppression of help seeking contributed to a contagion of suicide.
Anna Mueller awarded Luther Dana Waterman Professorship
Individual suicide risk can be dramatically altered by social 'sameness,' study finds.
IU research says pandemic impacts increase stress, conflicts for many mothers
Jessica Calarco cited in NY Times article "Mothers Are the 'Shock Absorbers' of Our Society'
Pamela Jackson and Fabio Rojas are recipients of grants from Indiana University's Racial Justice Fund which is jointly supported by the Vice President for Research and the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs. See more here
It is a joy and delight to share with you a list of our ASA and SSSP 2020 honorees. Please join me in congratulating graduate students Nick Smith, Orla Stapleton, and Mai Thai along with faculty members Jennifer Barber, Jess Calarco, Ethan Michelson, and Tim Hallett, who won awards for their outstanding research. We are equally proud of faculty member Brian Powell, co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award.
Read Jessica Calarco's op-ed in the New York Times questioning why the Secretary of Education is forcing public K-12 schools to reopen without giving them the money they need to do so safely, and what consequences that will have for inequalities in schools and for public education as a whole.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/opinion/coronavirus-school-reopen-devos.html
The 2020 Indiana University Department of Sociology graduation video!
Congratulations to the 2020 Indiana University Department of Sociology graduates!
Professor Anna Mueller has received the 2020 Edwin S. Schneidman Award from the American Association of Suicidology. This is the association's early career award.
Brian Powell has been selected to receive the 2020 American Sociological Association Distinguished Teaching award. The award will be presented at the ASA meeting in August. Please congratulate Brian on this well-deserved honor!
Courts deny abused wives divorces in the name of social harmony.
The College of Arts