Professor Jennifer Earl has been selected as Chair-Elect for the Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) section of the ASA. The School of Sociology at the University of Arizona would like to extend congratulations to her for this prestigious opportunity.

Assistant Professor Corey Abramson will receive the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award of the American Sociological Association's Aging and the Life Course (SALC) section. He is being honored for his book, The End Game: How Inequality Shapes our Final Years (Harvard University Press, 2015). The School of Sociology at the University of Arizona would like to extend congratulations to him for this achievement.

The Sociology Undergraduate Studies Committee is requesting nominations for the Spring 2016 William K. Bunis Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Award. This award was established to recognize sociology graduate student instructors for their teaching excellence at the undergraduate level. Graduate students who are eligible to be nominated for the award must have taught at least two undergraduate Sociology or Care, Health and Society courses. If you have had an instructor who you... Read more

The School of Sociology at the University of Arizona honors the memory of Professor Scott Eliason (1959-2015) through this scholarship award. The award covers the workshop and registration fees for participation in an Arizona Methods Workshop of the student’s choosing. All graduate students, regardless of discipline or institution, are welcome to apply.

Scott R. Eliason was Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Arizona from 2008 until his passing in 2015. Professor... Read more

Corey Abramson (Assistant Professor, UA Sociology) and his collaborators at UC San Francisco and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation were awarded a ~1.3 million dollar contract by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop new methods of analyzing, presenting, and sharing qualitative data for patients, clinicians, and researchers.

Cindy Cain, UA Sociology PhD 2013, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health at UCLA.  Cindy’s research areas include caring work, medical sociology, health care organizations, organizational theory, identity, culture, and science. You can find out more about Cindy at her website: http://www.cindylcain.com/

Heidi Reynolds-Stenson has been selected as one of 12 advanced grad students and early-career faculty from across the country to present at the Center for the Study of Social Movements' "Young Scholars Conference" at... Read more