News & Events

Departmental News

2020 - Present

  • Academic Programs Coordinator, Kelly Haller has been awarded the 2026 Excellence in Educational Effectiveness Award. The Award recognizes members of the campus community who demonstrate a commitment to best practices in academic assessment and use assessment results to drive programmatic excellence.
  • Huge congrats to Hao Lin for receiving the Stony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship! This prestigious award from the Graduate School will help Hao finish her dissertation.

  • Associate Professor, Rebekah Burroway, was recently interviewed by HuffPost for the article “Gen Z Women Are Less Likely to Put on Makeup Every Day — And Guess Who Has an Issue With That?” In the piece, Burroway discusses shifting beauty norms among Gen Z women, noting that younger generations are rethinking traditional beauty practices and increasingly prioritizing skincare and a more natural aesthetic.
  • Professor Carrie Shandra has been officially promoted to Full Professor!

  • Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Andrew Collins! He has received an acceptance from Sociology Compass for his outstanding, sole-authored manuscript, “Fractured or Reconfigured? A Review of the Debate on U.S. Corporate Elite Unity.” Andy’s manuscript reviews, synthesizes, and critiques the competing perspectives on continued corporate dominance in the U.S. and offers insightful suggestions for future research.
  • Sociology Ph.D. Candidate, Danielle Lucksted recently presented her research at a Global Law Observatory workshop hosted by the University of Chicago, examining the international dynamics of democratic backsliding. Her work explores how autocratizing regimes weaponize collective memory and legal systems, contributing to interdisciplinary conversations across sociology, law, political science, and international relations. 
  • Big shout out to PhD candidate Raff Thompson on an essay published in Jacobin! Raff's research compares the histories of political betting markets in the United States and United Kingdom. 
  • Please join us in congratulating Professor Nicolás Eilbaum on his new publication in The American Sociologist, entitled “The Mexican Viewpoint: Manuel Gamio and Chicago Sociology”! The article is a fascinating examination of the intellectual roots of migration scholarship through the story of anthropologist Manuel Gamio and his encounter with Chicago sociology. Congratulations, Professor Nicolás Eilbaum!

  • Danial Vahabli, Sociology PhD candidate, was interviewed by Sage Publishing - he discusses visual framing in global news media, including how it affects protests, differs by country or strength of society, and shares advice for students. Danial studies transnational dimension of social movements, whether it is people seeking attention for their struggles or whether it's the representation of the movements on visual or textual dimensions or impacts of international attention to the protests.

2025 News & Events


2024 News and Events

  • Daniel Levy has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Memory Studies Association.

  • Carrie Shandra has been selected to be a Visiting Professor at the AxPo Observatory of Marked Society Polarization at SciencesPo in Fall 2025.

  • Cathy Marrone has been selected as a recipient of SBU's 2024 Excellence in Educational Effectiveness Award.  This award recognizes members of the campus community who demonstrate a commitment to best practices in academic assessment and use assessment results to drive programmatic excellence.

  • Kelly Haller, Sociology Department Academic Programs Coordinator, has received the "Supervisor of the Year" award at the Student Employee, Intern, and Community Service Awards Ceremony at Stony Brook.  She was nominated by Higher Education Administration Intern Jennie Hauk.


  • 2023 News and Events

  • Jason J. Jones has received a fellowship for the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany
  • Aldon Morris is the first SBU Sociology PhD to be Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Morris is the Leon Forrest Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, Northwestern University.

  • Cathy Marrone's SOC 339, Sociology of Drugs and Alcoholism and Narcan Training Featured in Newsday on April 27th: "Narcan Training to Prevent OD Deaths"

2022 News and Events

  • Nicholas Wilson has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Social Science History Association

  • 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. 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”

  • 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.

2021 News and Events

  • 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."

  • 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. 

2020 News and Events

  • Jennifer Heerwig, has received a Piper Foundation Research Grant for her work on democracy vouchers, "Comparing Small Donor Public Financing Systems: The Effects of Matching Funds and Democracy Vouchers on Donor Diversity.

  • Yongjun Zhang, with his co-author Jeremy E. Fiel, is the co-winner of the 2020 James Coleman Best Article Award in the ASA Sociology of Education Section for his article, "With All Deliberate Speed:  The Reversal of Court-Ordered School Desegregation, 1970-2013." AJS 124(6): 1685-1719.

  • Crystal Fleming, has received a Stony Brook Mid-Career Diversity Award, recognizing a faculty member at the mid-career stage who has a strong record of research and service while also advancing Stony Brook's goals of a diverse and inclusive campus.

  • Michael Schwartz, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, has received the American Sociological Association's 2020 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.

 

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