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2024

  • Dr. Purdum was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation over the weekend for a segment exploring the role of incarcerated firefighters in responding to California wildfires. The discussion highlighted the implications for their health and safety, as well as broader considerations for criminal justice reform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VsCabdNew 
  • Discover Sociology: Master’s Degree Information Session: Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    Learn about our dynamic, two-year sociology M.A. program at this open house. Whether you’re preparing for a career where understanding human interactions is key or are preparing for a top Ph.D. program, this degree helps you succeed. https://uh.edu/class/calendar/?view=e&id=649168#event 
  • Congratulations to Charis Wu for receiving the 2023-2024 Undergraduate Student Paper Award for the paper “Autism Spectrum Disorder, Transgender Identity, and Multiple Minority Stress in an Era of Restrictions on Gender-Affirming Care”  https://uh.edu/class/sociology/paper-awards/ 
  • Innovative Online International Learning Project with Sociology Students in Armenia
    Dr. Stella Grigorian, Assistant Chair of the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at UH and Dr. Yuliana Melkumyan, Chair of Social Work and Social Technologies of the Sociology Faculty of YSU with the assistance of Regan Bennet (UH) and Lusine Karamyan (YSU) initiated and coordinated the on-line seminars starting from September 18, 2023 until October 11, 2023. These seminars created the opportunity for the students to meet and discusses various topics relevant to their courses: Sociology of Food at UH and Social Work with Migrants at YSU. The collaboration involved organizing online meetings on Microsoft Teams platform, determination of the topics for discussion and pinpoint of mutually available materials for the students to review before the discussions. https://www.ysu.am/en/faculty/76/articles/52778 
  • April 22: Harmony Across Borders The University of Houston Department of Sociology, in collaboration with the UH Institute for Global Engagement, invites you to an evening of world music on April 22. The celebration will begin with a reception of bites and beverages at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a free concert at 6:30 p.m. by Cadence Ensemble.

2023

  • Congratulations to Carli Copell for receiving the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Award for her work, “Mothering with Grace: Millennial Women’s Intensive Mothering Deep in the Heart of Texas"
  • Diminishing Inequalities in Maternal Health in Africa & the USA
    Join us for a thought-provoking symposium on “Diminishing Inequalities in Maternal Health in Africa and the USA,” where we will explore ways to tackle the persistent disparities that exist in maternal healthcare between different groups in these two regions. Maternal health is a pressing global issue that affects women and their families worldwide. In particular, African and African-American women face significant challenges in accessing quality maternal healthcare, resulting in higher rates of maternal mortality and morbidity among marginalized communities. Dr. Louise Marie Roth (Professor of Sociology; University of Arizona), Dr. Adrienne Strong (Assistant Professor of Anthropology; University of Florida, and our very own, Dr. Neema Langa (Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Sociology) will serve as panelists for the symposium. For more information, contact African American Studies at aas@central.uh.edu
  • Sociology in Action Lecture Save the Date: Celebrating 10 years of the Sociology in Action lecture series with special guest Dr. Greg Scott
  • Congratulations to Dr. Neema Langa for her National Science Foundation grant on " Identifying and Understanding the Social and Policy Determinants of Obstetric Care, Maternal Mortality, and Morbidity". The grant amount awarded is $340,109.  Dr. Langa is Principle Investigator with the help from Co-Investigators and Senior Personnel: Kate Anderson, PhD, Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill, PhD, Annamaria Millazo, PhD, Mclain Sampson, PhD, Elizabeth Gregory, PhD, Felicia York, PhD,  Kimberly Pilkinton, MD, Quinnete Walton, PhD 
  • How the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Stands To Financially Harm Women

2022

  • Congratulations to Rebecca Shields for being selected to take part in the Student Roundtable with President Khator Her contributions have led to a new campus accessibility initiative in conjunction with the Justin Dart, Jr. Student Accessibility Center.

  • Dr. Neema Langa will teach a special topics course: Africana's Aging and Health (SOC 3377/ AAS3394) in Spring 2023 on Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2:30 pm. This class covers scholarship on the structural forces that lead to stratified later-life health and well-being outcomes among Africana. It will explore the unique challenges of older citizens (mainly women) of the African continent and people of African descent in the United States of America, "blacks," and how they make sense of their lives.

  • Africana's Aging and Health (SOC 3377/ AAS3394) Dr. Neema Langa will teach a special topics course: Africana's Aging and Health (SOC 3377/ AAS3394) in Spring 2021 on Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2:30 pm. This class covers scholarship on the structural forces that lead to stratified later-life health and well-being outcomes among Africana. It will explore the unique challenges of older citizens (mainly women) of the African continent and people of African descent in the United States of America, "blacks," and how they make sense of their lives.

  • SSA November 2022 Events /class/sociology/undergraduate-program/sociology-students-association/

  • Congratulations to Dr. HS Hwang for winning the Best Paper Award at the annual conference of 2022 Midwest Academy of Management in Detroit, MI. His coauthored paper, "Antecedents of Institutional Conformity: the Case of the Local United Way Affiliates and their Response to Field Change Efforts", examines how local United Way affiliates respond to external pressures and expectation in the nonprofit sector. The paper provides implications for nonprofit organizations to adapt to social change, which help nonprofit organizations be more resilient to external threats and overcome internal challenges.

  • Undergraduate Student Spotlight /class/sociology/news/alumni-spotlight-undergrad/

  • Congratulations to CMALS for receiving a $500,000 gift from the Houston Endowment Foundation

  • Congratulations to Rebecca Shields for receiving the WGSS Elizabeth Smith Chenoweth Fellowship for their work on "Intersecting Stripes: A QueerCrip Approach to Understanding Gender Disparities in hEDS Diagnoses" /class/ws/students/scholarships/

  • Dr. Neema Langa joins UH to teach Gender and Health Care in Africa /class/sociology/news/langa-joins-sociology/

  • Dr. Sheila Katz is featured in a Houston Chronicle article "Texas' safe haven law allows parents to give up newborns, but it's rarely used. Here's what to know." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-safe-haven-law-allows-parents-to-give-up-newborns-but-it-s-rarely-used-here-s-what-to-know/ar-AA10OvXv

  • Dr. Sheila Katz was featured in a FOX 26 article "Women of color most affected by abortion reversal" https://www.fox26houston.com/news/women-of-color-most-affected-abortion-reversal

  • Congratulations to Sloan Rucker for receiving the Graduate Student Paper Award for their work on “An Intersectional Look at Black Women’s Experiences in Texas Prisons”

  • Sociology in Action Lecture - March 28th - Skills of the "Unskilled": Work, Gender, and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants - Recording Available /class/sociology/sia/

  • Congratulations to Carlos Campos, Jr. on receiving the Undergraduate Student Paper Award for “A Contemporary Analysis of the U.S. Indigenous Peoples Movement.” /class/sociology/undergraduate-program/resources-majors/paper-awards/

  • Congratulations to former Sociology M.A. student Chelsea Cooper for being awarded the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools http://www.csgs.org/awards/student-award-winners/

  • The sociology department welcomes our new assistant professor, Hyunseok Hwang /class/sociology/faculty/hyunseok-hwang/

  • Undergraduate Student Spotlight Jennifer Soto, Senior and President of the Sociology Student Association /class/sociology/news/

  • Professor Neema Langa joins us as a joint faculty member in sociology and African American studies to teach AAS 3394/SOC 3397: Gender and Health Care in Africa. This course aims to explore gender as the structural influence of an individual's likelihood of accessing and utilizing health care, as well as their health outcomes.

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2013

A Broken Public? Americans’ Responses to the Great Recession

Jeff Manza

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Jeff Manza (Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, New York University) gives his talk "A Broken Public? Americans’ Responses to the Great Recession" to faculty and grad students on March 25, 2013 in the Werlin Room.

 

"Legal recognition of gay families could improve outcome for children"

Prof. Amanda BaumleRead the article written by Amanda K. Baumle and D'Lane R. Compton (University of New Orleans) published in  the Houston Chronicle.

 

Professor Patricia Dorsey receives 2013 Teaching Excellence Award from President Khator

Professor Patricia Dorsey receives 2013 Teaching Excellence Award from President Khator

 

2012

“Why do fans boo?” - The Houston Chronicle turns to Dr. Russell Curtis for expert commentary on sports fan behavior.

Stress doubles for Houston-area Teachers - News report report on KRIV-FOX 26 based on the research of Dr. Gary Dworkin

Lecture & Book Signing with Kathy Ryan

Kathy Ryan - author

She is Director of Photography at the New York Times Magazine

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Beck Building, Second Floor
5601 Main Street

Monday January 23, 2012
6:30-8:30 p.m.

For more than 25 years, Kathy Ryan, distinguished photography director at the New York Times Magazine, has commissioned and published the images that have marked history and shaped the public’s understanding of the world’s events.

Learn more

2011

Sociology in Action Lecture Series

Sociology in Action
Deconstructing Official Rationales for the Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints

Dr. Stuart A. Wright
Professor of Sociology and Director of Research in the Office of Research, Lamar University

This event successfully took place October 26, 2011 - Watch a video of the lecture

 

Mexico's former president Vicente Fox

Mexico's former president Vicente Fox

Professor Ebaugh with Mexico's former president, Vincente Fox, and the Gulen Institute's Board, at a private reception at the Hilton of the Americas in Houston

Peace Ambassadors

Peace Ambassadors

Professor Helen Rose Ebaugh organized and lead a tour of religious sites in Houston for the Peace Ambassadors from San Angelo, Texas. The above photo was taken at the Vietnamese Buddhist Center

Book signing

Sociology Professor Helen Rose Ebaugh at a book signing for her book, The Gulen Movement, in Istanbul, Turkey.

The event drew thousands to a local mall and was covered by CNN Turkey.

Book signing

 

More Sociology News Archives

2010

Mr. Kofi Annan Visits Houston

Mr. Kofi Annan Visits Houston

Mr. Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the UN was a luncheon speaker at an event sponsored by the Gulen Institute, a UH center. He spoke about inter-cultural dialog in the 21st. century as critical in international relationships. President Renu Khator introduced him and Sociology Professor Helen Rose Ebaugh was a guest at a reception in his honor.

Sociologist Dr. Alice Cepeda nets national honors for research on drug use

From the Daily Cougar

Assistant sociology professor Alice Cepeda will be recognized by a national network for her research on drug use on the Latino community. Cepeda will receive the National Award of Excellence in Research by a New Investigator at the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse’s annual conference Sept. 30 in New Orleans.

Cepeda is currently studying the influence of social networks among aging Mexican-American heroin users. “Some of the work that I’m currently doing is looking at such things as the social environment and social structural factors that puts a lot of these individuals at risk for engaging in illegal activities,” Cepeda said. She mentioned factors such as poverty, violence and crime in the neighborhoods and the lack of employment opportunities in the community.

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Sociology professor elected to lead global research committee

UH Professor of Sociology Gary Dworkin was elected president of the Sociology of Education Research Committee of the International Sociological Association on July 17 at the 17th World Congress of Sociology held in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Dworkin's term as the committee's ninth president will run from 2010 to 2014. The International Sociological Association is chartered by the United Nations and has members from 167 nations around the world.

For the past 37 years, Dworkin has taught sociology at the University of Houston and his research has focused on education and how its reform affects the global community

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The Gülen Movement

From the Graffit-e

Professor Helen Rose Ebaugh has written a book that examines an Islamic movement of education, interfaith exchange and peace.

"The Gülen Movement: A Sociological Analysis of a Civic Movement Rooted in Moderate Islam" follows Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish scholar and preacher whose works helped start a civic movement in the 1960s to educate young people.

Based on interview data and visits to Gülen-inspired institutions, the book describes the movement from a sociological perspective, especially through the lens of social movement theory.

Read the complete article

2009

  • December 21: The new edition of the E-Soc newsletter is now available.
  • The Center for Immigration Research Speaker Series: “Enemy Women (and Men)”
    • Jessica Brown, College of Saint Rose Residential Fellow, Center for Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Studies
    • Friday, November 6, at 2-3:30 p.m.
    • Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library
    • See the flyer about the speech
    • Learn more
  • The Center for Immigration Research Speaker Series: “The Undocumented Immigrant Experience”
    • Hilario Molina, University of Houston Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology
    • Thursday, October 8, at 2:00-3:30pm
    • Honors College Commons, MD Anderson Library
    • See the flyer about the speech
    • Learn more
  • Prof. Kotarba, Sociology department chairman, is the recipient of the George Herbert Mead Award, the lifetime achievement award presented annually by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. For the complete story visit UH Today.

2008