News and Events


Graduation

The Department of Sociology cordially invites you to attend our 2008 Graduation Ceremony on Sunday, May 11, 2008.

Presentation of Awards and Diploma Distribution will begin promptly at 12:30pm in the Von Der Heyden Pavilion located near the Perk.

Great Food and Drink

Bonilla-Silva's "White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology" Released

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's and Tukufu Zuberi's much anticipated book, White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology (Rowman and Littlefied) became available on April 30. This edited book examines how the racial lenses of the social sciences and the subscription of social scientists to whites' racial common sense have limited their understanding of racial matters and handicapped their capacity to appreciate the significance of the "race effect" (they call it the "racial stratification effect"). ...more

Sosnaud wins Harper-Simpson Award

Benjamin Sosnaud has won the 07-08 Harper-Simpson award for writing the best senior thesis

"Reconceptualizing Class Politics: The Relationship Between Subjective Class Identity, Objective Class Position, and Vote Choice in American Elections"

Honors Program

Spring 2008 Departmental Newsletter

The latest projects and activities in the Duke Sociology Department

Students on the Job Market

Departmental Newsletter

Public Sociology
Research for Public Policy & Business

 

Rogers, Sereny, and Freeman awarded FLAS Fellowships for 2008-2009

Kimberly Rogers, Melanie Sereny and Elizabeth Hordge Freeman have been awarded a 2008-2009 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship from the Asian-Pacific Studies Institute andLatin American & Caribbean Studies. Kim's fellowship will support full-time foreign language study in Japanese. Melanie's fellowship will be for study in Chinese. Elizabeth's fellowship will be for study in Portuguese.

Dance at the Moulin-Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Dance at the Moulin-Rouge - 1890
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

   

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