Research
Undergraduate and graduate students collaborate with faculty on internationally recognized research in the department’s specialty areas. Washington DC is a lively research ground for studying local social problems. Many students conduct community-engaged scholarship and attend professional conferences such as the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Eastern Sociological Society.
Our faculty are prolific researchers in topics as varied as health disparities, race and masculinity, immigration, postcommunism in Eastern Europe, labor in the meatpacking industry, police culture and prisoner resistance. They have received research grants from prestigious agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. In Washington DC our faculty have conducted research on collective memory with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, taught students how to testify at DC City Council meetings, and launched the Comunicadores for the Future summer internship program.
Department Strengths in Social Inequality
Criminal Justice & Criminology
Race & Ethnicity
Immigration
Urban Sociology
