Sociology Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair Phyllis Moen has been recognized by AARP Minnesota and Pollen Midwest as one of 2017’s “50 over 50”.
The University of Minnesota Libraries’ new exhibit, “A Campus Divided: Progressives, Anticommunists, Racism and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota 1930-1942”, brings to life an especially turbulent and troubled time in the University’s history.
Corrie Lapinsky is the first fellow accepted to Phyllis Moen's University of Minnesota Advanced Careers (UMAC) initiative, a yearlong exploration aimed at baby boomers on the verge of retirement.
Sociology professor Joshua Page, has partnered with Joe Soss, Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, to explore the “financialization” of the criminal justice system as a predatory system of governance.
Joachim Savelsberg received the American Sociological Association (ASA) section for Crime, Law, and Deviance (CLD) 2017 Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for his accumulated body of scholarship.
Undergraduate sociology major, Adam Hurlburt is featured in an opinion piece in Community Voices on MinnPost as part of a project in Assistant Professor Jack DeWaard’s spring 2017 topics course: Immigration to the U.S.: Beyond Walls.
Professor Elizabeth Heger Boyle received a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant for a project to increase accessibility to survey data on women and children's health from the 20 poorest countries in the world.
Professor Josh Page wrote an editorial for the Sacramento Bee based on his ethnographic research on the bail system, and in response to recent publicity regarding a proposed senate bill in California to restructure the CA bail system.
