Turkish women who migrate to the US for their husbands’ careers often find themselves unable to pursue their own professional ambitions and instead take on full-time care of children and homelife, according to new research by MSU Sociology Associate Professor Stephanie Nawyn.
In connection with the publication of his latest book "Decisions for Sustainability: Fact and Values," MSU Sociology University Distinguished Professor Tom Dietz has posted a blog, “What Should We Do?” on sustainability decision making at fifteen-eighty-four, the Cambridge University Press blogsite.
MSU Sociology PhD candidate Inna Mirzoyan has accepted a new position for the fall as an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit.
The Ruth Hamilton Award is one of MSU's “All-University Awards for Excellence,” which has a perpetual endowment, and is named after Dr. Ruth Simms Hamilton, a distinguished sociologist whose work over decades made major contributions to the understanding of the African Diaspora. Dr. Hamilton also made significant contributions to sociological theory and to our understanding of international migration, urbanization, and inequality.
MSU Department of Sociology is happy to recognize the achievements of our undergraduate students in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Sociology and Economics senior Carrie Nielsen has been chosen to represent the graduating Sociology class for 2023.
This semester, a record-breaking 206 graduating students were recognized by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees for achieving the highest scholastic average — a 4.0 GPA. Each semester, students graduating with a 4.0 GPA are presented with the Board of Trustees’ Award for their academic excellence. Additionally, each awardee will be acknowledged during their individual commencement ceremonies in May and will receive $1,000 from the university in recognition of their accomplishment.
The ASMSU Senior Class Council awarded the Outstanding Research Award to Dr. Sarah Prior, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director.
Teresa Rivera is a Dual Major Doctoral Degree student in Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology. She has been awarded the P. Lea Martinez Endowed Scholarship award for 2023-24 school year from the Julian Samora Research Institute (JSRI).
A recent paper by Sociology Assistant Professor stef shuster has been named "the 2023 Outstanding Article award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Theory Division.
Dr. Molly Copeland's most recent research, published in Social Science & Medicine, shows that teen friendships can have lasting consequences for mental health, decades later, in individuals' mid 30s and early 40s.
An Assistant Professor of Sociology, Carrera named the 2023 winner of Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement from Brown University's Swearer Center.
Teresa Rivera, Dual Major Doctoral Degree student in Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology, has published "A Social Ecological Approach to Latino Immigrant Trauma and Intervention: An Integrative Review" in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
Angelica Ruvalcaba is the 2023 recipient of the Inspiration Award in the MSU Student Leader Award by the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen).
Dr. Ning Hsieh received the two-year RO3 grant worth $100,000 to support their work on primary care disparities among sexual and gender minorities.
MSU Sociology is pleased to announce Maria Espinoza has accepted our tenure-system faculty offer for environment and health sociology position. She’ll be joining our department in August 2023. Her spouse (Matthew Welsh) will be joining the Department of Mathematics in a 3-year Research Associate position starting in August 2024.
A new wide-ranging research paper “The ethnically and racially uneven role of water infrastructure spending in rural economic development,” by Drs. Stephen Gasteyer (MSU Sociology) and J. Tom Mueller (University of Oklahoma), has been published in the journal Nature Water.
Dr. Carrera's "Engaging Community in the Development of Low-Cost Technologies for Environmental Monitoring to Promote Environmental Health Literacy in a Low-Trust Setting: The Community-Driven Flint Project" received the honor from the University Engagement and Outreach.
Dr. Copeland, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was selected to participate in the Michigan Integrative Well-Being and Inequality Training Program run by the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
Students from all majors have a wide variety of opportunities to check out careers in many fields over the next month.
We experienced a collective trauma this evening, as a single shooter killed and injured multiple people in Berkey Hall before moving on to do the same in the MSU Union and ultimately heading north where he apparently took his own life. For approximately four hours tonight when the identity and location of the shooter was unknown, we were gripped with fear, desperation, and hopelessness. Even though the shooter is now deceased and our campus “shelter-in-place” order has been lifted, our fear, desperation, and hopelessness—among other feelings—may endure for a while.
MSU Sociology PhD student Sam Safford has published a research paper this December that shows an unintended consequence of strict regulation of electronic cigarettes is an increase in the use of other nicotine delivery methods, including traditional cigarettes which carry significantly higher health risks.
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources announced that Dr. Sarah Prior is the new program director of the Bailey Scholars.
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This award is for her project “Engaging Community in the Development of Low-Cost Technologies for Environmental Monitoring to Promote Environmental Health Literacy in a Low-Trust Setting: The Community-Driven Flint Project” that she has been working on with two Flint-based organizations (Community Based Organization Partners and Community Driven Flint Action Council).
In celebration of the careers and retirement of University Distinguished Professor Tom Dietz and MSU Sociology Professor Linda Kalof, MSU Sociology presented a two day workshop on Ecocultural Studies.
Social scientists and communications experts joined engineers to engage rural communities that are off-grid in the Amazon rainforest to find better ways to deliver electricity.
Dr. McCright is among 11 MSU researchers recognized n the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List compiled by Clarivate Analytics.
Drs. Sarah Prior and Jennifer Carrera have been awarded funding through Michigan State University’s Institutional Diversity and Inclusion’s Creating Inclusive Grants program toward the development of a new project centered around the improvement of diversity, equity and inclusion in the campus community.
Sociology Assistant Professor Yelinek was appointed at the recent MSA convention that took place on the MSU campus.
Kovach earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology with concentrations in sociology and human behavior, and social services in May.
The College of Social Science announced the winners of the SSC-Provost’s Undergraduate Research Initiative Program (SSC-PURI), which supports undergraduate research through awards of up to $2,000 for Fall-Spring semesters for students majoring in our College.
MSU Sociology researchers have found that the more friends and family people had before the pandemic, the more likely they were to receive help and support during the worldwide shutdown. For older, non-white people, this is especially true if their network included relatives. Drs. Molly Copeland and Hui Liu analyzed data from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project both pre and post pandemic. They found that how adults age 50 and older had structured their “confidant network” before the pandemic in part determined how and if they were able to receive the help and support they needed during COVID-19.
Three MSU Sociology faculty members have received internal funds through MSU's Creating Inclusive Excellence Grants competition.
In celebration of the careers and retirement of University Distinguished Professor Tom Dietz and MSU Sociology Professor Linda Kalof, MSU Sociology is presenting a two day workshop on Ecocultural Studies.
Dr. Harry Schwarzweller was Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University from 1972 until his retirement.
Carrie Nielsen is entering her fourth year pursuing a BA in economics and a BS in sociology. She came to MSU with a declared major in sociology, but after taking a course in social inequality as part of the Social Science Scholars Program, she realized that understanding economics was a prerequisite for addressing and dismantling many of the injustices in our society.
Dr. Sarah Prior, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Undergraduate Program Coordinator, has published "Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism" with Dr. Brooke De Heer (Northern Arizona University).
Sociology PhD students Zoey Lai and Angelica Ruvalcaba have been awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowships for Spring 2023 by the College of Social Science.
Dr. Ayala is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program.
Please welcome our 2022 graduate cohort - Jess Burnham, Teresa Rivera and Juwen Wang.
Katie Burkhardt, a sociology student, was examining a timeline of the Larry Nassar case, attempting to analyze the changes that have been implemented at Michigan State in its wake and the perception that those involved with the University hold towards those changes. Her hope is that through better discussion from a stakeholder point of view on improvements the University has been making, individuals can feel safer and more supported on campus.
Dr. Stacy Smith's course SOC 490: Public Sociology explores issues from pandemics to reproductive health care. Enroll today!
Dr. Monique Kelly is teaching SOC 460: Human Migration this fall.
MSU Sociology alum Yvonne Fleener, Disability Network Southwest Michigan President and CEO, has been at the forefront of disability awareness, advocacy and acceptance her entire life.
In this podcast, REI Senior Research Assistant, Matthew Emery, talks with 2022 Student-Led, Faculty-Guided Author, Dr. Stephen Gasteyer, Associate Professor of Sociology at MSU. Gasteyer's 2022 project is entitled "Creating Circular Economic Opportunities through Localizing the Food Cooperative." A summary of the project is seen below. Watch Gasteyer's full presentation at the 2022 Innovate Michigan! Summit on August 18th, 2022.
Dr. Xuefei Ren, Sociology and Global Urban Studies professor, together with Dr. Roger Keil (York University) and Dr. Philip Harrison (university of the Witwatersrand) published this article in The Conversation.
Three Sociology PhD students have been awarded fellowship grants from MSU’s Center for Gender in Global Context.
The Department of Sociology at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks candidates for a tenure-system Assistant Professor position in environmental sociology. The 9-month academic year position begins on August 16, 2023. We seek candidates with emerging or established expertise in investigating how regional and/or global ecological changes impact human health outcomes or disparities.
Suchyta received the award from the Natural Resources Research Interest Group of the Rural Sociological Society.
Recent MSU Sociology PhD graduate Dr. Jihan Mohammed has accepted a faculty lecturer position at the Sociology Department of Vanderbilt University. She will start in August.
Dr. Prior, a teaching-focused faculty member in Sociology as well as the Undergraduate Program Director, will be one of the 2022-2023 fellows.
MSU’s Sociology Doctoral Program ranks quite favorably relative to its peers in the USA and around the world, according to an array of reports. Department of Sociology Chairperson Aaron M. McCright remarks, “these favorable rankings are the result of much hard work by our dedicated faculty and students, and they reflect the successes we have achieved across many years.”
MSU Sociology PhD student Ezgi Karaoglu has won the John & Ruth Useem Endowment Award for her research that combines international work and cross-culture approaches to issues, and to support her career in global transformation.
Larry Thompson, an MSU Sociology alumnus, was the former U.S. Deputy Attorney General during part of the George W. Bush administration (2001-2003), the second highest ranking position in the U.S. Department of Justice. An experienced leader in the private and public sectors, Mr. Thompson continues to thrive in his law career.
Dr. shuster is the incoming chair of the membership committee of the professional organization.
Dr. Dietz, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has been ranked as #70 top Social Science and Humanities researcher in the U.S. and #138 in the world by Research.com.
stef m. shuster is an assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Sociology.
MSU Sociology PhD student Tiffany Williams has published an article that has been incorporated into a chapter in a brand new edited volume on anti-environmentalism.
Dr. Ren's book Governing the Urban in China and India won the 2022 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Urban Sociology Section of American Sociological Association
MSU Sociology PhD candidate Nathan Poirier has published this article in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
MSU Sociology PhD student Inna Mirzoyan published this essay in Community & Urban Sociology
Research Committee 21 is the most active and visible association for global urban studies. Dr. Ren will serve for the next three years.
Alyssa Bowen chose Sociology because she loves learning about human interaction and plans to have a career in human relations.
Dr. Liu has accepted an invitation to serve as a standing member of the National Institutes of Health's Social Sciences and Population Studies B Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review.
Fitzgerald, from Kalkaska, Mich., plans to open her own business in the future.
On April 13, 2022 in the Union Ballroom, undergraduate researchers, faculty and supporters - including Sociology major Brandon Roberts - gathered to celebrate the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF) first place winners.
Dr. Rebecca Karam is a sociologist at Michigan State University and a member of the College of Social Science's Dean's Research Associates Program. A fourth-generation Lebanese American, Dr. Karam's work centers around shining a light on the traditions, challenges and successes that Arab and Muslim Americans experience as they navigate life in the United States.
University Distinguished Professor of Sociology Tom Dietz writes that it is "time for an energy independence moonshot" in this op-ed article in The Hill, emphasizing that the best way to halt Russian energy dominance and their overall power is to make major near-term reductions in demand for Russian energy and create a foundation for larger long-term reductions.
Dr. Liu's research article "Birth Cohort Trends in Health Disparities by Sexual Orientation" has been selected as a winner of the 2021IPUMS Research Awards, presented by the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota.
For many Michigan State University students, spring break offers a week away from class and often the dreary March weather. However, for MSU Sociology junior Tamara Hyman, traveling to Poland as part of an alternative spring break to learn more about her culture and history, became part of history as she unexpectedly lent a hand to refugees in need.
Dr. Theda Skocpol, an MSU Sociology alumna. is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and is a world-renowned author. She has dedicated her life to equity, social justice education and activism.
The selection committee was impressed with Awudu's overall research trajectory, the originality of her project, and her genuine and explicit engagement with Hamilton’s notion of the African Diaspora.
The MSU Center for Gender in Global Context announced the university-wide awards for work in gender equity and social justice.
This week in our Summer 2022 Online Course highlights, we are pleased to share SOC 316: Youth & Society with Kitty Groeller.
MSU Sociology Associate Professor Stephanie Nawyn, director of the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) worked with the Michigan Women's Commission on research showing women are underrepresented in the state legislature and government.
Wenhua (Zoey) Lai is the 2022 recipient of the Kenneth E. Corey Research Enrichment Fund, awarded by the College of Social Science.
MSU Sociology Assistant Professors Dr. stef shuster and Dr. Ning Hsieh have received a 2022 Teacher-Scholar Award. This All-University Award is a high honor for junior faculty at MSU. The nomination and selection process is highly competitive within colleges and across the university. Successful awardees indeed must demonstrate excellence in both teaching and research.
Collaborating with faculty from York University (Canada) and University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), MSU Sociology Associate Professor Dr. Xuefei Ren is awarded a grant to study COVID-19's impact in vulnerable urban neighborhoods in Toronto, Johannesburg, and Chicago.
"Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation" shares critical animal studies voices throughout the world.
MSU Sociology Assistant Professor Monique Kelly has published research which compares affluence and status in Jamaica with Trinidad and Tobago, both Black majority countries.
MSU Sociology is highlighting its Summer 2022 Courses that are open for all undergraduates. This week, we focus on SOC 350: Society and Mental Health with Dr. Jodi Yelinek.
Philip J. "PJ" Pettis, a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University, will join the thematic area of Sexual and Gender Minority Health research at MSU.
MSU Sociology Professor Emeritus Dr. Jualynne Dodson is an award-winning scholar who has dedicated her career to studying the religion and culture of African descendant peoples in the Americas.
This week's Summer 22 Course Spotlight is SOC 214 Social Inequality with Vanessa Rickenbrode. Enroll today!
MSU Sociology is highlighting its Summer 2022 Courses that are open for all undergraduates. This week, we focus on ISS 310: People and Environment with Dr. Ben Marley.
MSU Sociology is excited to announce a full slate of Summer Courses for 2022.
Newly published research in Nature Climate Change is by Dr. Thomas Dietz, MSU University Distinguished Professor and MSU Sociology alumna Dr. Rachael Shwom.