Vassar College Sociology Department

10/10/2024

New department photo! L-R: Gina LaFata (administrative assistant), Pinar Batur, Leonard Nevarez, Catherine Tan, Eréndira Rueda, and our new colleague Stephane Andrade.

📸 Light Carruyo. Other faculty not pictured: Carlos Alamo, John Andrews, Abigail Coplin, Bill Hoynes, Diane Harriford, Seungsook Moon, and Ruth Thompson-Miller.

05/19/2024

Graduates, their families, and faculty at the Sociology Department table for Commencement. Congratulations to the class of 2024!

04/13/2023

We're pleased to share with you a new video about sociology and our department, created by our 2022-23 academic intern Stephen Han.

A brief video describing sociology and the department at Vassar College. Directed by Stephen Han ('23)

04/18/2022

Our majors committee made this video for prospective Vassar students who want to know more about the Sociology Department!

11/06/2021

The Sociology Department, Fall 2021.

L-R: Gina LaFata (administrative assistant), Asst. Professor Catherine Tan (with her dog Piscola), Professor Leonard Nevarez, Professor Pinar Batur, Professor Seungsook Moon, Visiting Asst. Professor John Andrews, and Asst. Professor Abigail Coplin.

Not shown: Professor Diane Harriford, Assoc. Professor Light Carruyo, Assoc. Professor Eréndira Rueda, and Visiting Adjunct Professor Ruth Thompson-Miller.

07/16/2021

Congratulations to our graduating senior Hattie Goodwin ('21) for getting awarded a Fulbright Fellowship!

Stories Two Vassar Grads Awarded Fulbright Fellowships By Larry Hertz Julie Morel ’19 plans to spend 10 months in India researching prenatal care and birthing techniques in rural and urban communities there. Hattie Goodwin ’21 will be teaching English to high school students in Spain for the 202...

06/16/2021

Help! Blodgett Hall has been turned into a fictional dormitory building for exterior shots in "The S*x Lives of College Girls," a new HBO show produced by Mindy Kaling.

06/03/2021

Another year is over! The faculty of the Soc Department wish all the best for our graduating students.

Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled Vassar College’s traditional commencement ceremony, the faculty in the Sociology Department say a few words to th...

05/14/2021

The Vassar Transitions Program, which serves our Low-Income, First Gen, and/or DACA/undocumented students, is in search of a new Director.

Reporting to the Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth and Engagement, the Director of Transitions Program directs the Transitions Program. Transitions is a comprehensive, four-year program for first-generation, low income, and/or undocumented students. Transitions maximizes student succe...

03/01/2021

Don't miss this forthcoming piece by Raymond Magsaysay '17 that highlights "how the exclusion of AAPIs in critical discourse obscures the actual scale of the carceral state, erases complex intra- and in*******al dynamics of power, marginalizes criminalized AAPIs, and concurrently reinforces anti-Blackness and other toxic ideologies."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3792596&fbclid=IwAR0F6JkvUXItYCYIfLxN8Scz4pa2ZtUd8okHLRoVUaDgTVLGC9dxL4pLpQU

Recent uprisings against racial injustice, sparked by the killings of George Floyd and others, have triggered urgent calls to overhaul the U.S. criminal “justic