Welcome to the website of the Sociology Department at Stony Brook University. Based on the Academic Analytics Faculty Scholarly Productivity index, SBU Sociology ranks 23rd in the U.S. We have 16 full-time faculty, 53 graduate students and about 560 undergraduate majors.
Our Department provides graduate training in sociology that is informed by a global perspective. Whether a sociological question addresses individual-level processes, ideas, or organizations, there are often global influences and implications connected to that phenomenon. Students pursuing an advanced degree in sociology will have opportunities to focus on global sociology and to learn how sociological methods and theories can be applied to the study of global social, cultural, political, and economic processes.
For undergraduate Sociology majors focusing on global studies, we encourage taking advantage of International Studies and Study Abroad through Stony Brook's International Academic Programs.
Faculty research projects, conferences, seminars, and colloquia sponsored by the Sociology Department provide numerous opportunities for students to actively engage in research, dialogues and debates relevant to the study of social systems in a world characterized by increasing global interaction.
Contact:
Department of SociologyState University of New York at Stony BrookStony Brook, New York 11794-4356Telephone: (631) 632-7700
Fax: (631) 632-8203
News & Events
| May 2013 | |
| •Carrie Shandra wins $30k DPR & SSA Emerging Investigator Award •Arnout van de Rijt and Robert Harrison (IACS) win $38k SBU & BNL Seed Grant •Catherine Marrone receives Provost's 2013 Outstanding Lecturer Award •Ian Roxborough receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching •Sharon Worksman, Undergraduate Coordinator, receives SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Classified Service •Sasha Rodriguez and Vanessa Lynn receive Stony Brook Turner Foundation Summer Research Grants •Tarun Banerjee and Gianmarco Savio named co-winners of the Sociology Department's 2013 David Street Award for best qualitative and/or theory paper •Hewan Girma named winner of the Sociology Department's 2013 Rose Laub Coser Award for best theory and/or research paper in gender studies •Paul Gootenberg, Professor of History and affiliated faculty member in Sociology has been named a Distinguished Professor |
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| April 2013 | |
| • Jennifer Heerwig joins our department! • Kathleen Fallon joins our department! • 2013 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference on April 19th • Amy Graglia awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-2014 • Cheryl Llewellyn and Mike Restivo receive 2013 Graduate School teaching awards |
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| March 2013 | |
| • Zack Almquist, University of California-Irvine, speaks on "Population Dynamics and Network Dynamics: A Holistic Approach" on February 27th • Jennifer Heerwig, New York University, speaks on "Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Elite Donors to Federal Elections, 1980 - 2008" on March 4th • Mengxiao Zhu, Rutgers University, speaks on "Motivataions for Self-Assembling into Project Teams: Insights from the Study of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)" on March 6th • Craig Rawlings, University of California-Santa Barbara, speaks on "Streams of Thought: The Macro-Structure and Micro-Dynaics of Intellectual Integration within a Research University" on March 11th • Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality Workshop presents Vilna Bashi Treitler, CUNY, "The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fictions into Ethnic Factions", March 14th • IHSS presents Adam McKeown, Columbia University Dept. of History, March 26th, 2:30 PM, SBS N320 • Michele Lamont, Harvard University, speaks on "Shared Cognitive-Emotional-Interactional Platforms: Markers and Conditions for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations" on March 28th |
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| February 2013 | |
| • Yan Long, University of Michigan, speaks on "Empowering Communities? The Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on Chinese Repressive Rule, 1989-2012" on February 4th • Kathleen Fallon, McGill University speaks on "Does Critical Mass Matter: Women's Political Representation and Child Health in Developing Countries" on February 6th • Jae-Mahn Shim, University of Chicago speaks on "Coordinating Plural Logics of Action: The Coexistence of Biomedicine and Alternative Medicine"on February 11th • Shiri Noy, Indiana University speaks on "The World Bank and Targeting in Health Policy in Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica" on February 13th |
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| January 2013 | |
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• Tarun Banerjee wins NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant |
Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4356, tel.: +1 (631) 632-7700
