Department of Sociology, University of Kansas

10/26/2023

We proudly welcome our 2023 Clark Lecturer, Dr. Sharmila Rudrappa (The University of Texas at Austin), with a talk titled “Landscapes of Infertility and the Afterlives of Colonialism in India.”

Please join us at 2:00 p.m. today, Oct. 26, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. More information at https://sociology.ku.edu/events

10/26/2022

We’re excited to announce the return of the Clark Lecture Series with a talk by Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield (Washington University in St. Louis), titled “Professional Work in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era: Black Health Care Workers in the New Economy.” Please join us at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. More information at https://sociology.ku.edu/events

09/03/2021

The Department of Sociology invites you to a practice job talk by Matt Comi, Sociology doctoral candidate, at 3 pm on September 9th. This event will be in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union to have enough space to physically distance. As a reminder, masks are required.

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Title: Will the future have beer? Lessons from hop growers on sustainability and innovation for a changing climate

Abstract:
Forty farmers in Washington grow over thirty percent of the world's total hop output and breed many of the most popular varieties to supply beer makers.
In the first qualitative assessment of the US hop growing industry in over 100 years, Matt Comi reveals how this unique group of growers has vertically integrated to improve farmer autonomy and profitably during the last three decades. Comi's work explores how these farmers direct their on-farm research and development programs and how the politics of farmer-driven innovation diverges from those technologies pursued by large agricultural and pharmaceutical companies.
Comi's projects push forward environmental sociology by showing how farmers can meaningfully co-design more sustainable food systems in a changing climate along with Science and Technology Studies (STS) by showing how the politics of knowledge production change when farmers act as experts.

3:00 pm
September 9, 2021
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Matt Comi's: http://www.mattcomi.net/

07/12/2021

Professor ChangHwan Kim discusses his research into the Asian American experience and how science overlooks Asian Americans in this article in Science News.

Existing scientific datasets fail to capture details on Asian Americans, making it hard to assess the group’s overall well-being.

05/29/2021

Congratulations to Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, associate professor of sociology, who received a grant to travel to the Republic of Azerbaijan to conduct fieldwork.

KUIA awards 10 grants for research and collaboration abroad Wed, 05/12/2021   LAWRENCE — KU International Affairs has awarded more than $49,000 in travel grants to nine University of Kansas faculty members and a graduate student to support research and collaboration abroad.     The...

05/10/2021

Congratulations Mehrangiz!

Associate professor of sociology will travel in spring 2022

04/02/2021

Congratulations to Tracey LaPierre, Associate Professor of Sociology for this 18-month $646,629 grant project to examine how the pandemic has challenged those who receive in-home care.

KU researchers will study how the pandemic has affected safety measures for in-home, long-term support and care.

03/31/2021

KU’s local government management program retained its No. 1 ranking among all universities — a position it has held since 1998. KU’s special education program ranked first among public schools.

03/24/2021

03/04/2021

12/01/2020

Congratulations to Professor Joane Nagel!
"Joane Nagel, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, was elected a 2020 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her distinguished contributions to the scientific study of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality as they shape political actions, social movements and engagement."

A virtual induction ceremony for the 489 newly elected Fellows will take place following the 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting in February.