This fall we are proud to welcome 161 Sociology majors including first-year, transfer and adult students and student veterans. We are excited to also welcome ten new graduate students to the department.

2019 INCOMING M.A. STUDENTS

Emma Casey: crime, deviance, law, social psychology, symbolic interactionism, global political economy, ethnography, and social inequality

Taylor Ellis: the criminal justice system, social stratification, public policy issues

Katie Linenberger: social inequality, community

Severin Stefan Mangold: environmental and natural resources, food agriculture and development, environmental justice, and community development

Derek Smallwood: food systems and security, inequality, political economy, and globalization

Caroline Webb: crime, gender, social systems

2019 INCOMING Ph.D. STUDENTS

Becca Clark-Hargreaves: food systems, carceral systems, and social movements

Laurence Pedroni: environment and natural resources; crime, law, and deviance; social inequality, social justice, and governance

Maddie Schoephoerster: environmental sociology, social policy, social movements, quantitative research methods

Micaela Truslove: environmental sociology; society and natural resource management; social justice, inequality, and governance