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Dr. Charlie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was quoted in a Guardian article on “Immigration Provisions Rolled Back in Utah.” Some of the key provisions of the immigration law that the state of Utah put in place in 2011 giving police powers to arrest people on suspicion of being in […]

Dr. Stephen J. Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, presents “What Kind of Scarcity and for Whom? Justice, Sustainability and the Global Dynamics of Food Insecurity” in November. Scanlan is presenting at the conference “Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought and Critical Materials in the Modern World (c. 1800 […]

Ohio University alumnus Marc Houk recently spoke to students in the sociology class, “Punishment and Society,” under the instruction of professor Nicole Kaufman in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Houk is one of two former wardens from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to visit the class, along […]

By Lori Bauer “I didn’t have to go into the military to get shot at,” says Chris Derr, a veteran telling his story to help other veterans. Derr took a photograph of the empty lot where his childhood home used to sit in the Youngstown area with a disposable camera […]

Ohio University faculty are invited to a Conversation about the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley Annex 007. Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, is leading an initiative across campus to entertain Ohio University membership in the […]

Thursday, Oct. 23, is Sociology Fest on the Ohio University Athens campus. Drop-in advising time (with cookies) is 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. “It is time to revisit your planned courses for the coming semester, and either drop in, or schedule an advising meeting with your adviser,” says Dr. Howard Welser, […]

By Christina Escamilla ’14 Ohio University Alum Since graduation I committed to a year of service as an AmeriCorps Vista with YWCA Billings. If you are not familiar with AmeriCorps Vista, our mission is to bring individuals and communities out of poverty. I relocated to Billings, MT, and having lived […]