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One of the legacies that Warren Mitofsky left was the formation of a fellowship in his name. This year’s Mitofsky Fellow is Nathália Santos, a PhD student in Cornell University’s Department of Sociology.
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A New Year welcomes a new Director of Graduate Studies for the department of Sociology. As of the first of the year, Professor Vida Maralani will be taking the role over from Professor Erin York Cornwell, who’s proven remarkable dedication to the position over the last few years.
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'Welcoming students to campus and providing them with the opportunity to connect to faculty and each other is a joy.'
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A new Freshman Writing Seminar Course, designed by second-year PhD student Lillan Dodderidge (academic interest areas include the Sociology of Education), wrapped up the Fall semester in early December. The class ended the term with a new-fashioned format for their final project.
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Ben Rosche conceptualized and programmed a data visualization tool, which was presented at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) .
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Findings suggest that apparent secularization in America is not a result of declining faith or decreased church attendance during the pandemic.
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Anil Menon is researching the political legacies of forced migration, which is on the rise globally due to climate change and conflict.
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Levy illustrates a behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life. Data Driven has been described as a “must-read for both those who think AI is our salvation and those who see automation as the devil” (Danah Boyd).
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Economic changes in India are forcing adaptations in traditional marriage practices, but not enough for a modernizing overhaul to this deeply traditional institution.
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Professor Victor Nee signed the Book of Members at an Induction Ceremony that celebrated recently elected artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.
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Concerns about violence are growing as Election Day in the U.S. nears, says scholar Mabel Berezin: “The expectation of violence at the polls this year signals how much has changed in the American electoral landscape since 2018."
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QuIRI has chosen Dr. Laura Tach as their QuIRI Featured Researcher. Professor Tach has important exemplary contributions focused on family, public policy, and child welfare in the qualitative social science.
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New research co-authored by sociologist Peter Rich finds a generation of federal school reform hasn’t addressed the primary drivers of racial gaps in academic achievement and attainment: economic inequality and segregated schools.
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Wynne Williams-Ceci's research focuses on improving public health messaging for vaping.
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Fourteen authors from upstate New York participating in the Oñgwaga•ä’ Writers Workshop this month.
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The outcome of the Italian election on Sept. 25 could have dramatic effects on the country and European Union, says professor Mabel Berezin.
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Six Cornell faculty members from three different colleges will work together to improve epidemiological models of infectious disease using a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Six Cornell faculty members from three different colleges will work together to improve epidemiological models of infectious disease.
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Learn more about the events during the Sociology Colloquium Series
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This year, 15 new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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Arts & Sciences student Jakara Zellner ’23, co-leader on the Garden Ambassador team, who served on the advisory committee and narrated the audio tour of a Cornell Botanic Gardens featuring 21 plants significant to the Black experience in the Americas.
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Stephanie Naing is working with sixth and seventh graders this summer who want to gain entrance into New York City's independent schools.
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For six years, Klarman Fellow Chaira Galli helped youths from Central America navigate the United States’ labyrinthine asylum process while doing an ethnographic study.
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The AR redesign of a display in Uris Hall was a collaborative exploration involving student researchers, staff and faculty.
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The Department of Sociology has redesigned a glass case on the third floor of Uris Hall with Augmented Reality (AR) to represent the wide field of sociology. The redesign was a collaborative exploration involving student researchers, staff and faculty.“I have always loved these kinds of small recess spaces, reserved for showcasing a department's...
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Mia Krishnamurthy is graduating with a Sociology major with minors in Business and Inequality Studies from Cornell. Her interest in high-technology regions, start-up culture, entrepreneurship, and venture capital directed her to take Dr. Sullivan’s course “the Sociology of High-Tech Regions”Mia explained that during the course, they studied “the...
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Carolyn Chun’22 Sociology major presented her Honors Thesis research: Hidden Universal Right: Dissecting The Digital Divide and Its Impacts on Dryden, New York at CURB Cornell Undergraduate Research Board Poster Session of the Spring Symposium of Undergraduate Research “I did a case study in Dryden, NY, interviewing Cornell Professor Dan Lamb and...
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Youssef Aziz is a Sociology and Psychology major.
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Trinity Stewart is an Anthropology & Sociology major.
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AnnaBella Adragna is a sociology major.
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Sociologist Landon Schnabel, a scholar of religion and gender, finds Christian religion between the lines of a leaked draft opinion that suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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This was Le Pen’s third try for the Presidency, professor Mabel Berezin points out, and in every try she gains more votes.
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Researchers from Cornell, Tulane and Stanford universities concluded that girls raised by at least one Jewish parent acquire a particular way of viewing the world that influences their education choices, career aspirations and various other experiences.
Where is home? Pennington, NJDo you have other major or minors other than sociology? I'm also a double major in computer science.Tell us about your journey studying sociology, What brought you to this field? I admittedly knew very little about the field of sociology before coming to college, but after taking some introductory sociology courses,...
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Sociologist Mabel Berezin, an expert on nationalist and populist movements in Europe, comments on the French elections.
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Sociologist Mabel Berezin, an expert on fascist, nationalist and populist movements in Europe and associated threats to democracy, comments on the French elections.
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A senior reflects on her decision to come to Cornell.
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April elections in Hungary and France will be affected by the war in Ukraine, says comparative sociologist Mabel Berezin – even as war news draws public attention from them.
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Despite persistent gaps in workforce participation, when it comes to wanting to work, the gender gap has all but disappeared over the last 45 years, according to Cornell sociologist Landon Schnabel.
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Mar’Quon Frederick, a government major, will spend the summers of 2022 and 2023 in the Institute for Responsible Citizenship's Washington Program.
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Starting in the 2022-2023 academic year, Jamie Budnick will be appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. Budnick earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2020. She is currently a NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research....
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Starting in the 2022-2023 academic year, Daniel Hirschman will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. He comes to Cornell after several years of teaching at Brown University and the University of Michigan where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Sociology. Dr. Hirschman’s work focuses on economic sociology, finance, organizations, as...
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Clarity about the goals of sanctions against Russia will be key to attempts to de-escalate the conflict, Cornell faculty experts said during a March 4 panel discussion.
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Based on an in-depth study of ordinary people in Russia, new research explores how citizens engage with the principles of nationalism in making sense of disruptive social change.
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This Wednesday, March 16, 2022 is #CornellGivingDay. Join us in our efforts to support opportunities for our undergraduate and graduate sociology students. Learning, understanding, and addressing social change, social problems, and current social issues are at the core of our mission. Our program also affords students many opportunities to address...
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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