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Dr. Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented “Transitioning into the middle class after college: ‘Hidden injuries’ and partial mobility” at the Sociology of Higher Education panel of the American Sociological Association annual meeting in August in Chicago. The ASA panel focused on race, class, and gender in higher education. […]

By Nicole Rodriguez In 1998, Dr. Charlie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, made his first sojourn to Joetsu Niigata, Japan, to study and interview international couples. This summer, three Ohio University undergrads went along—in part to help interview the couple’s teenage children. In addition to getting undergraduate research and field […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Tiffany Gayle Chenault has published her first book, The Unseen Politics of Public Housing: Resident Councils, Communities, and Change. Chenault earned a BA in Sociology-Pre-Law with a minor in African-American Studies in 1996 from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. She is Associate […]

By Christopher Caldwell From working at a cheetah conservation last summer in South Africa to spending a day with Nelson Mandela’s niece, Camille Smith ’16 knows that her heart has been drawn to a life of African study. With a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies, a double minor in […]

Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis announced that Dr. Jenny Hall-Jones, Ohio University’s Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, will serve as Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, effective July 1, until the successful conclusion of a national search for the next Vice President of Student […]

Interested in the criminal justice system? An online Summer II course asks students to decide Supreme Court cases and explore the criminal justice system. SOC 2600: Criminal Justice Online is an online course that runs June 29 through Aug. 15. The instructor is Rebecca Collins. Students in the course will: […]

Dr. Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, co-edited College Students’ Experiences of Power and Marginality: Sharing Spaces and Negotiating Differences, with Chaise LaDousa, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College. (Routledge 2015). As scholars and administrators have sharpened their focus on higher education beyond trends in access and graduation rates […]