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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In the October 3 issue of The D, Novi Zhukovsky explores the Jennifer Jiwon Lee's senior thesis “Who Speaks and Who Listens: An Examination of Gender Differences in Dartmouth Classrooms.” In her article "Speaking Up Gender Imbalance in the Classroom," Zhukovsky discusses disparities in when and how men and women speak in Dartmouth classes with Lee's thesis advisor, Associate Professor...
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A recent piece on CNBC, "Racial wealth inequality is worsened by student debt, study finds" highlights the work of Assistant Professor Jason Houle in his study titled "Racial Disparities in Student Debt and the Reproduction of the Fragile Black Middle Class," published this year in the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
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Professor of Sociology Kathryn Lively will serve a one-year appointment as interim dean of the College. The dean of the College is Dartmouth’s senior officer responsible for undergraduate academic life, overseeing the division of student affairs and leading the house professors and Dartmouth’s six house communities.
“I’m very excited to take on this role, which is a unique opportunity to promote co-curricular life and the relationship between student affairs and academic success,”...
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Little is known of Dartmouth's historical connections to the institution of slavery. This research seminar investigates the college's economic entanglement in the trade and slaveholding; as a site for the intellectual legitimation and contestation of slavery; and the contributions of enslaved persons to its development.
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The Sociology Department will be moving to the third floor of Blunt Hall on August 24, 2018
Main Office (Department Administrator) 302
John Campbell, Chair: 306C
Marc Dixon: 306D
Jason Houle: 301F
Deborah King: 308B
Kathy Lin: 301B
Kathryn Lively: 308C
Janice McCabe: 301A
Misagh Parsa: 308D
Kimberly Rogers: 308E
Emily Walton: 306BPostdoctoral Fellows
Sunmin Kim: 301D
Joshua Kaiser: 301E
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Want to know how capitalism really works, or what we are doing about global inequality? Professor Lev Grinberg of Ben-Gurion University will be on campus fall 2018, teaching Critical Political Economy (SOCY 49.09) in the 11 hour and Global Inequality Protests (SOCY 79.09) in the two hour.
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"Inoa is more concerned about creating an inclusive atmosphere for Dartmouth's minority students in common spaces – all topics of discussion in a class called Status, Power and Interaction he took with Assistant Professor of Sociology Kimberly Rogers.
The final project included presentations on ways to decrease inequality on...
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Assistant Professor Kimberly Rogers has received the 2018 Presidents’ Good Steward Award from Campus Compact for New Hampshire. This award is given annually to a member of the faculty, administration, or staff who has contributed their professional expertise in service to the wider community and significantly advanced public service on their campus.
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Professor Janice McCabe is featured in the February 15 Dartmouth Weekly News, for her contribution to an article in Nation Swell. In the article, How to Stop Sexism From Ruining Your Kids, Professor McCabe discusses the influence...
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