Sociology News and Events
September
15
September 15, 2019
June
1
June 01, 2019
The Sociology Department is pleased to announce the winners of our 2018-2019 Undergraduate Sociology Paper Competition.
May
5
May 05, 2019
Along with his co-author Emma Cohen, Dr. Will McConnell published " Fear of Fraudulence: Graduate School Program Environments and the Impostor Phenomenon" in The Sociological Quarterly.
April
15
April 15, 2019
Six Sociology MA students presented their original research at the Southern Sociological Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
April
5
April 05, 2019
Dr. Laura Backstrom published her first book entitled Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children’s Weight Loss Camp (Rutgers University Press, 2019).
March
14
March 14, 2019
Two FAU sociology faculty present their papers at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference in Boston.
March
1
March 01, 2019
The Sociology Department will award a $300 prize to the student who produces the best sociology paper during academic year Fall 2018-Spring 2019. A $100 award will go to the first runner-up.
February
20
February 20, 2019
“‘A Give Grief Kind of Guy’: Help-Seeking, Status, and the Experience of Helpers at a University IT Help Desk” by Dr. Lotus Seeley was published in Symbolic Interaction in February 2019.
February
15
February 15, 2019
Dr. Philip Lewin published “‘Coal is not just a Job; It’s a Way of Life’: The Cultural Politics of Coal Production in Central Appalachia” in the February 2019 issue of Social Problems.