A major sociolgy journal, the Socio-Economic Review, has published a symposium on Professor Brooke Harrington's book Capital without Borders. A symposium is a series of articles by other scholars, evaluating the scholarly impact of a book. This is an honor the journal gives a book on occasion when...
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In a recently published Washington Post Op Ed: Want to succeed in college? Spend more time playing video games with friends, Associate Professor of Sociology Janice McCabe discusses the importance of friendships for...
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Sociology major Alexis Castillo ’19 was selected as an AERA Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Fellow. Alexis attended the 2019 AERA (American Educational Research Association) annual meeting in Toronto, Canada in April. She participated in several days of workshops, mentoring and other programs with a small cohort of other fellows. Alexis also presented research from her Senior Independent Study “Analyzing the sense of belonging of first generation college students of color...
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Associate Professor of Sociology Marc Dixon has taken over the role of Department Chair from John Campbell, beginning winter term 2019.
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Associate professor of Sociology and Allen House Professor Janice McCabe will lead a group of Allen House student to New Orleans, to work with a local nonprofit, Lowernine, to help fix homes that had been improperly repaired after Hurricane Katrina struck in 200. Read more about thieir trip in The Dartmouth News:...
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In a February 7 article in The Guardian, Professor Brooke Harrington lays the case for how Brexit and the election of Donald Trump benefit the ultra wealthy. Though sold as populist nationalist movements, both were bank-rolled by off shore accounts of the global eilte who want to...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology Kimberly B. Rogers is one of twelve scholars selected by the The Eastern Region Campus Compact as a 2019-2020 Engaged Scholar. The Engaged Scholars Initiative seeks to develop, support and connect leaders who can advance co-created knowledge, critically engaged pedagogies, institutional change, and collaborative action to address societal issues. Read more about the ESI and the other selected participants...
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Picturing rural New England, one might conjure an image from a Norman Rockwell painting: rolling green pastures dotted with red barns, steepled white churches, and covered bridges dating back to the Colonial era. When it comes to the Upper Valley, a collection of small towns along the Connecticut River in Vermont and New Hampshire, even today, this image isn’t far from the truth. While the physical place and its institutions have not changed much, the racial demographics of this area have...
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For her senior capstone project, Sophia Stone '18, elected to research the history of Sociology at Dartmouth. She compiled her findings in a website: https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/socy/
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Senior Sociology Major Mark Griffith has won the 2018 Undergraduate Paper Award at the Southern Demographic Association Conference in Durham, NC. for his paper "The Association Between Birthplace and Wages for Recent Migrants to the U.S." Mark's paper is part of his Dartmouth senior honors thesis, which he is working on with advisor...
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