About Us

Our primary strengths are in gender, political and economic sociology, and the sociology of the environment. Each year more than 3,000 students enroll in approximately 60 courses offered by the Department of Sociology. The department has about 50 Ph.D. students and 500 undergraduate majors.

Faculty

Our faculty also include specialists in the areas of gender, political economy, environment, criminology, demography, education, organizations, race & ethnicity, religion, stratification, work & occupations

Our faculty are affiliated with a wide variety of other university programs, including the Ethnic Studies Department, Women's and Gender Studies Program, International Studies Department,  Center for the Study of Women in Society, Center on Diversity and Community, Environmental Studies, and Planning, Public Policy and Management .

Sociology Breaking News

*Shannon Bell's dissertation research received a 2009 Community Action Research Initiative (CARI) award from the ASA's Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy. The project was featured in the May/June issue of "ASA Footnotes" http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/community_0509.html . (However, the blurb contains an error: instead of "five colleagues" she is studying five communities.) 

One of the other four CARI award recipients, Debbie Storrs, is a 1996 UO sociology PhD and currently Associate Dean, College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences, University of Idaho.

* Dreiling Wins Hermann Distinguished Teaching Award

In a surprise ceremony on May 13, 2009, UO President Dave Frohnmayer presented Professor Michael Dreiling with a crystal apple and announced that he had won this year's Hermann Distinguished Teaching Award, UO's most prestigious teaching award for tenured faculty. Please join us in congratulating Michael and thanking him for his enormous teaching and mentoring contributions to the department since 1996. Thank you to his students, current and past, who sent comments for the department head's nominating letter.

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