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Sociology Welcomes New Faculty
July 14, 2020
The sociology department is delighted to welcome Sunmin Kim and Gregory Sharp as Assistant Professors, and Carolyn Choi as the Dean's Pre-to-Postdoctoral Dissertation Fellow in Asian American Studies.
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Anti-Racist Educational Resources for Students, Faculty, and the Community
June 23, 2020
Curated by Professor Kim Rogers and the department of sociology, this collection includes academic research, podcasts, videos, and much more. We hope that it can help inform the conversation at this critical moment and we will continue to update with new resources.
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Flashback: College students should take mandatory course on black history, white privilege
June 15, 2020
This is an important moment to revisit Professor Emily Walton's USA Today Op-Ed from 2019.
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For working moms, long-term school and childcare closures may force an 'impossible' balancing act
May 07, 2020
In heterosexual married couples, "if somebody needs to be home with the children, typically it's the wife who'll rearrange her work schedule," said Kristin E. Smith
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Quoted: Brooke Harrington in 'The New Yorker'
May 05, 2020
"The underlying massive change is that wealth no longer needs to justify itself—it is self-justifying. I look back, and I think, that's when we gave up on being a 'we,' " writes the professor of sociology.
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Women At The Frontlines Of COVID-19 Might Be Starting The Gender Role Reversal Of The Century
April 23, 2020
"In a lot of cases, gender trumps money. Our social roles are so much more powerful in decision-making than money," says Kristin Smith, a visiting associate professor of sociology at Dartmouth, in a "Forbes" story about women who are on the front lines of fighting COVID-19.
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Millions of dads are stuck at home — which could be a game changer for working moms
April 16, 2020
"In a lot of cases, gender trumps money," said Kristin Smith, a visiting research associate professor at Dartmouth who wrote her Ph.D dissertation on that phenomenon. "Our social roles are so much more powerful in decision-making than money."
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Leading Lines: Technology doesn’t have to be digital to be useful in teaching
February 19, 2020
Kimberly Rogers, speaks about using games and simulations in her sociology courses, two very analog technologies.
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Dartmouth Library Exhibit: "The Ties that Bind: Slavery and Dartmouth"
February 19, 2020
Professor Deborah King’s Sociology 79.08 class, “Lest We Forget: History, Collective Memory and Slavery at Dartmouth,”...
