Current and Future News & Events
Fall 2021 Newsletter
Spring 2022 Newsletter
The Sociology Department mourns the passing of Distinguished Teaching and Service
Professor Norman Goodman. Dr. Goodman, who passed away on June 26th, enjoyed a 56-year career at Stony Brook
University. He was a member of the university’s founding generation beginning his
career at Stony Brook in 1964 as one of the earliest members of the Sociology Department.
Professor Goodman chaired the department for 20 years (from 1973 to 1989 and again
from 2000 to 2004). He also served as president of the Arts and Sciences Senate,
twice president of the University Senate, served as vice president for the senate
for three terms and edited the SUNY University Senate Bulletin for more than 20 years.
Goodman was the author/co-author/co-editor of 10 books, including four textbooks in
Introductory Sociology and two textbooks in Marriage and the Family. Goodman also
served on the SUNY Distinguished Academy Board from its conception until his retirement
last year. Further information on the career of Norman Goodman can be found here.
In dedication to Stony Brook University and the Department of Sociology, Dr. Goodman has generously bequeathed funds to create the “Norman ‘Norm’ Goodman Endowment Excellence Award in Sociology” which will provide annual $1,000 cash awards for one undergraduate and one graduate student in Sociology who “demonstrates high academic achievement as defined by Stony Brook policy…[and] who demonstrates achievement, experience or commitment to academic excellence, leadership or community service”
May 2022
- Kristen Shorette is the 2022 winner of the Environmental Sociology's Section of the American Sociological Association Teaching and Mentorship Award.
- Nicholas H. Wilson has received a $20,000 Stony Brook Foundation Trustees Faculty Award to pursue research, scholarship and creative art. Recipients are chosen with an emphasis on the quality of research and publications and scholarship, the institutional impact of achievements and potential for continued professional growth, and the clarity, quality and significance of long-term future research, scholarship and creative activity and their probably impact upon SBU and the scholarly community within the discipline.
April 2022
- Allison Pugh (University of Virginia), April 4th, 2:30 - 4:00 PM, SBS N403: "The Stratification of Human Contact: The Presentand Future of Connective Labor"
- Tim Liao (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), April 6th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, SBS N403: "Life Course Trajectory Class Crystallization."
- Prema Kurien (Syracuse University), April 11th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, SBS N403: "The Racial Paradigm and Anti-Caste Activism in the U.S.."
- Biray Kolluoğlu (Boğaziçi University), April 13th, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, SBS N403: "Social Assemblages in Flux: Global Health and Education"
- Dana Weinberg (CUNY Queens College and The Graduate Center), April 20th, 1:00 - 2:30 PM, N403: "From Anti -Vaxxer Moms to Miltia Men: Social Media Influence Operations and Narrative Weaponization."
September 2021
- Oyeronke Oyewumi has received the Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of the United States. Established in the 1980s, the award recognizes and honors "scholars who have contributed a lifetime record of outstanding scholarship in their respective field of African Studies and service to thr Africanist community."
June 2021
- In the recent American Sociological Association election, Crystal Fleming was elected to a three year term as an at-large member of Council, which is the governing body of the association.