We are so excited to introduce you to our three newest faculty members! Katherine Maldonado, Chiara Packard, and Doug Routh have officially joined the Sociololgy Department starting this Fall 2024 semester!
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Please join us for our annual “Sociology & U Benefit: Performance Art on Race, Class & Gender”. It is on Friday, September 6th at 6:00pm at Salt Lake Acting Company located at 168 West 500 North. poster, created This year's post was created by Luis Novoa— a Sociology alum and Sociology Community Scholarship recipient. We have a roster of great performers for the evening. We’re also partnering this year with a colleague from the Department of Theatre to bring in a new slate of performers. It’s shaping up to be quite an exciting evening!
The drying of lakes with no outlets, also called terminal lakes or inland seas, is a major ecological catastrophe of the twenty-first century.
Samuel Owens, Staff Excellence Award Rebecca Owen, Superior Teaching Award Frank Page, Distinguished Teaching Award Guangzhen Wu, Superior Teaching Award (Not pictured: Akiko Kamimura, Public Service Professorship Award)
We are seeking to recruit one doctoral student in sociology to work on a collaborative NIH NIA R01 research grant entitled: Area-level Socio-economic Conditions and Individual-level Health and Mortality: Exploring Place-Based Mechanisms and Individual-level Psychosocial Processes. The student will work under the direction of Dr. Sara Grineski in Sociology at the University of Utah, alongside a research team that includes Dr. David Curtis, Dr. Dennis Wei and Dr. Yue Zhang (all at University of Utah), Dr. Ming Wen at Hong King University, and other RAs and post-docs at both institutions. They will also be an affiliate with the Center for Natural and Technological Hazards at the University of Utah.