Health Policy Research Scholars is a national leadership development program for second-year, full-time doctoral students who want to develop leadership skills and connect…
This annual award honors a scholar who has shown exceptional lifetime achievement in advancing the longitudinal study and scientific understanding of the life course.
Sociology Professor Elizabeth Heger Boyle has received funding from the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the NICHD, and UNICEF to research and improve women and children's…
"I was inspired to come to UMN Sociology because of all of the really great work happening at the Minnesota Population Center and in the department, and the amazing reputation…
Associate Professor Elizabeth Wrigley-Field's study on racial disparities in the number of COVID cases reveal disparities in the health care system is featured in this UPI…
This week on Dialogue Minnesota, a look at how sports became a platform for expressing ideological views and how today’s athletes are using their celebrity to promote racial…
In America, how long you live depends on the color of your skin. Assistant professor of sociology Elizabeth Wrigley-Field helps reveal that if Black people were immune to the…
University of Minnesota sociology Prof. Michelle Phelps says that other cities experienced unrest after a controversial police killing, not because police were being less…
"They respond to family disturbances, elder abuse, a culture of homelessness, traffic, all kinds of things they're not necessarily trained to do," said Page. "In many cases…
Whether it's raising chickens, building a "catio" or planting a pollinator garden, "there's a lot of joy in not postponing what you want to do." Professor Phyllis Moen is…
There are large disparities in COVID-related unemployment, with the largest proportional losses among Latinx and less-educated workers. The effects have been particularly felt…
Athletes using sport as platform to highlight societal issues is not new, but backlash, hostility continues to be loud. Professor Doug Hartmann was interviewed for this Al…
The City Council approved a resolution last month that would allow the city to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, but the movement still has a long way to go…
If so many students on college campuses disregard drinking laws, why keep them? Graduate student Erez Garnai studies these laws and the social and legal protocols around them…
The Minneapolis City Council is moving forward with a proposed amendment to the city’s charter that would disband the current police department and replace it with a…
For a developing country an IT revolution holds the promise of economic prosperity, but at what cost? Michael Goldman has been examining Bangalore, India over the past decade…
Memory could have a stronger hold on our current circumstances than we think. Professor Alejandro Baer of the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide…
In 2019, the MPD solved only 56% of murders and just 22% of rapes. As it aggressively monitors and controls targeted neighborhoods, the MPD has failed to protect and serve the…
Despite following the Obama-era playbook for police reform, Minneapolis has yet to rebuild trust between community members and the police. Professor Michelle Phelps is quoted…
