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Assistant Professor Faculty Position Available

The Sociology Department is reviewing applications for an Assistant Professor position.
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Sociology Alum Writes Smartly and Humorously about Culture

Rembert Browne '09 made this year's Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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Media Contacts

Media contacts for various sociological areas of expertise have been compiled for the department.
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"The Sociological Argument for Breaking Up with Bad Friends"

Assistant Professor Janice McCabe studies friendships among young adults aged roughly 18 to 27.
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Sociology Major Displays a Photo Installation Focusing on Sexual Assault

The work of Jadyn Petterson-Rae '15, a Sociology modified major with WGSS, is featured at the Dartmouth Black Family Visual Arts Center.
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"Home-owning is falling among young adults, but don’t blame student debt" (The Economist)

Jason Houle reports data on house ownership among student-loan debtors, and on the likelihood of moving back home to live with one's parents.
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Two Special Sociology Offerings in 16F

"Critical Political Economy" and "Global Inequality Protests"
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Sociology Major Receives a Prestigious Beinecke Scholarship

Sera Kwon '17, a Sociology major and Mellon Mays Fellow, is one of 20 students nationwide who has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship.
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“Modeling Identity Dynamics and Uncertainty in Social Interactions”

Assistant Professor Kimberly Rogers was one of fourteen to receive a CompX grant from the Neukom Institute for the 2016-17 year.
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"Iranian Leaders Continue to Use Enemies Abroad to Rally Nation" (Time.com)

According to Misagh Parsa, Professor of Sociology, the signing of the nuclear deal is unlikely to cease Iranian rulers' anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric.
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Recent Publications

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"Friendship Talk as Identity Work: Defining the Self through Friend Relationships."

Amanda Koontz Anthony, Janice M. McCabe

Symbolic Interaction
Modeling Dynamic Identities and Uncertainty in Social Interactions: Bayesian Affect Control Theory

Tobias Schroder, Jesse Hoey, Kimberly B. Rogers

American Sociological Review (American Sociological Association)
Young, Black, and (Still) in the Red: Parental Wealth, Race, and Student Loan Debt

Fenaba R. Addo, Jason Houle, Daniel Simon

Springer Science and Business Media
Investment, Sense of Community, and Collective Efficacy in a Multiethnic Public Housing Neighborhood

Emily Walton

City & Community

Events

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Oct 04

12:30PM
Stories Beyond Borders
Occom Commons

A talk by Umesh Acharya, UVM Undergrad in Neuroscience
Oct 08

9:30AM
Lecture: Religious Freedom or Religious Tyranny with Judy Brown
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building

The latest clash in the constitutional culture wars is the invocation of “religious freedom” to justify refusing to comply with constitutional and statutory mandates.
Oct 10

5:00PM
"Rethinking U.S.-Latin American Relations in an Age of Transformations"
Room 003, Rockefeller Center

Abraham F. Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Southern California, discusses whether & how Latin America matters to the U.S. today.
Oct 13

5:00PM
Lecture--"Beyond War and Survival: Re-Imagining Vietnamese American Communities"
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)

Linda Vo, Dept. of Asian Am. Studies, Univ. of CA, Irvine. She analyzes how Vietnamese Americans have reshaped the U.S. cultural landscape & how this is changing Asian Am. Studies.
Nov 23

12:00AM
Fall Term 2016
no location

Fall term ends
Jan 04

12:00AM
Winter Term 2017
no location

Winter term begins