Faculty News

Books and Articles

• Professor John Conklin: Criminology (10th edition, Prentice Hall, 2010); "Sociology in Hollywood Films" (The American Sociologist, August 2009); and Campus Life in the Movies: A Critical Survey from the Silent Era to the Present (McFarland, 2008).
  
• Assistant Professor Ryan Centner: "Places of Privileged Consumption Practices: Spatial Capital, the Dot-Com Habitus, and San Francisco’s Internet Boom," City & Community 7 (September 2008), 193-223.
• Ronald Jacobs and Assistant Professor Sarah Sobieraj: "Narrative, Public Policy, and Political Legitimacy: Congressional Debates about the Nonprofit Sector, 1894-1969," Sociological Theory 25 (2007), 1-25.
• Assistant Professor Sarah Sobieraj and Deborah White: "Could Civic Engagement Reproduce Political Inequality?" in Susan Ostrander and Kent Portney (eds.), Acting Civically. Hanover: New England University Press, 2007, pp. 92-110.
• Professor Susan Ostrander: new book Acting Civically: From Urban Neighborhoods to Higher Education.
• Professor Paul Joseph: Reviews & Articles on new book Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful?
• Professor Paul Joseph: The Long View: Teaching the Lessons of the Vietnam Era to a New Generation Tuftonian Online
• Associate Professor Rosemary Taylor: Looming pandemic: U.S. needs to affirm global nature of avian flu, Tufts Journal, February 6, 2006
• Associate Professor Rosemary Taylor: 'Modern plagues' prey on society's worst fears, Tufts Journal, March 2002

Events

Majors Week Lunch Big Success

The Department of Sociology Majors Week Lunch on Monday, March 9, 2009, was a big success for all in attendance.  The lunch featured brief faculty and student introductions, as well as guest speakers.  Professor Ryan Centner, A98, spoke on the transition from Sociology Major to Sociology Professor.  Senior sociology major Victoria Alberini shared her stories of success studying the sociology of shopping and her future career.