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The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University offers undergraduate and graduate programs focused on the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior from a global perspective.

10/08/2026

🔎 FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

Meet Assistant Professor Alex Diamond!

🌎 How does state power take root in communities where multiple forms of authority already exist?

Drawing on three years of ethnographic research in a Colombian village experiencing conflict between guerrilla and state authority, Professor Diamond examines state formation as a process of relationship building.

His research explores how farmers seeking to replace coca cultivation with legal crops organized to build their own roads. These shared efforts brought community members together, created local representatives, and connected communities with state officials who could provide resources and machinery.

At the same time, community representatives maintained relationships with guerrilla commanders around other collective needs.

The result? A closer look at how roads, community organizing, and relationships between local leaders and government officials can shape the development of state power.

📸: All images © 2018-2025 Alex Diamond

10/02/2026

Congratulations to Kelly Haller, Academic Programs Coordinator, who is one of four faculty and staff across SBU to receive the Excellence in Educational Effectiveness Award from the Office of Educational Effectiveness and the Provost’s Office.

Link in bio!

09/29/2026

Meet the newest faces of our Sociology department! 🎓✨

Our undergraduate interns are bringing their passion for social science and so much more to the team this semester. Swipe through to meet the crew, find out what drives their research goals, and see what they love doing outside the classroom! ➡️🧠
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09/28/2026

This spring, is looking for both undergraduate and graduate interns in social sciences, social welfare, psychology, and public health with an interest in applied research.

Link in bio to apply!

09/18/2026

📚✨ Celebrating Mentorship + Research!

Congratulations to Sociology faculty member Professor Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley and undergraduate researcher on their new publication, “Eating with Your Eyes: The Digital-Sensory Induction Strategies of Chilean-Palestinian Foodie Influencers.”

We’re especially excited to celebrate Lucas as an undergraduate co-author! Lucas is also President of our newly revitalized Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society Club, and is leading his own research project that recently received IRB approval.

Lucas is a blossoming researcher and a phenomenally kind, thoughtful, and engaged member of our Sociology community. We love seeing students have opportunities to collaborate with faculty, contribute to meaningful research, and grow as scholars. ❤️

Congratulations, Professor Bascuñan-Wiley & Lucas! 🎉
Link in our bio to read this fascinating line of research!

09/14/2026

🎉Celebrating Dr. Cathy Marrone! 🎉

It is our absolute pleasure to announce that our very own Dr. Cathy Marrone is the 2026 recipient of the NACADA Advising Excellence Award – Faculty Advisor! 🏆💙

The National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) presents this award to faculty advisors who make a significant and lasting impact on the students they serve — and there is no one more deserving of this recognition than Cathy.

Cathy’s advising is about so much more than course schedules and degree requirements. She listens. She advocates. She encourages. She empowers. She creates a space where students feel heard, supported, and confident in making their own decisions.

As one nomination letter beautifully describes:

*“Professor Marrone’s keen interpersonal skills and genuine care for others make her a leader on our campus and a truly effective and highly impactful faculty advisor.”*

She is a fierce advocate for students, a compassionate mentor, and someone who has touched **generations of Seawolves**. Her impact is easy to see — from alumni who reach out years later to reconnect, to the students who line up at commencement for that special picture with her. 📸🐺

And perhaps the greatest compliment of all? Students and colleagues call her the “greatest of all time.” 🐐

Cathy, congratulations on this incredibly well-deserved honor! We are so lucky to have you in our department and on our campus. 💙

Please join us in celebrating Dr. Marrone and her outstanding achievement! 🎉👏

09/08/2026

We are thrilled to congratulate Stony Brook Sociology PhD student Charles Fung on this wonderful achievement!

Charles’s book, A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, co-edited with historians of Hong Kong, has received the Best Historical Materials Award for works published in 2025.

The award is presented by the Best Historical Materials Committee of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association.

This is an exciting and well-deserved recognition of Charles’s scholarship and his contribution to the study and preservation of Hong Kong’s modern history. We are incredibly proud to celebrate this accomplishment with him.
Please join us in congratulating Charles! 👏📚

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09/04/2026

Please join us in welcoming our newest PRODiG+ Fellow! 🎉

Dr. Haisu Huang's research advances environmental justice scholarship by examining how climate hazards, environmental policies, and energy transitions unevenly distribute risks and resources—and how communities understand, challenge, and navigate these inequalities in everyday life.

Using qualitative and ethnographic methods, their work connects large-scale transformations such as disaster, deindustrialization, and decarbonization to lived experiences of housing insecurity, health risk, and belonging.

At the heart of their research are critical questions: Who is protected? Who is exposed? And who gets a say when environments are transformed?

We’re thrilled to welcome a scholar whose work not only advances sociological understanding of environmental inequality, but also seeks to support more equitable responses to climate disruption and inspire students to imagine and build more just futures. 🌎✨

Welcome to Stony Brook Dr. Huang! 🌊🐺❤️

09/01/2026

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Alex Diamond, our newest Assistant Professor! 🎉

As an ethnographer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker, Alex’s research explores the connections between drugs, state policy, violence, and economic transformation, centering the everyday experiences of people navigating these forces.

Alex’s first book, Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia’s Peace Laboratory, examines a landmark peace process from the perspective of farmers working to transform their region from violence to peace, guerrilla rule to state authority, and coca cultivation to legal agriculture.

Alex is currently writing High Stakes: Cannabis, Crime, Capitalism, and Politics, which tells the stories of people who grow, sell, and advocate for cannabis while examining how legalization has reshaped both legal and illegal cannabis economies.

We’re excited to welcome a scholar whose interdisciplinary work brings together ethnography, visual storytelling, politics, and sociology to illuminate how communities experience and respond to major social and economic transformations.

Welcome to Stony Brook, Dr. Diamond! 🌊🐺❤️

08/27/2026

Please join us in congratulating **Gaëlle Aminata** on receiving a **2027 Chow Green Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention** from **Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)!** 🎉👏

Gaëlle will be honored at the SWS meeting in February, celebrating this incredible recognition of her outstanding dissertation research. 💙

Link in Bio to learn more about Gaëlle and see the highlights of her award-winning work!

Congratulations, Gaëlle! We are so proud of you! 🎓✨

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