Dr. Kellie Alexander successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled “How Do You Do the Right Thing and Not Get Fired or Ruin Your Career?”: The Role of University Administrators in Hazing Prevention and Education. Kellie currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. Kellie’s dissertation is one of the only […]
The College of Liberal Arts is hosting the second Democracy Summit at CSU, March 5-7, 2025.
https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/research-creative/cla-democracy-summit/
Events are free and open to the public.
Meet several women changing the research landscape at Colorado State University.
This spring Colorado State University’s ACT Human Rights Film Festival will celebrate its tenth festival edition April 2-6, 2025.
Edna Muñoz uses her sociology training to stop human trafficking in Boulder County.
Carlos Medina is the first of three students to earn Sociology’s new Certificate in Applied Social Research. Carlos graduated this fall with his degree in Sociology and a concentration in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Congratulations, Carlos! How did you decide to study Sociology? As a first-generation Latino student, I wanted to understand why certain challenges […]
Edwin (Eddie) Parrott is our very first graduate of the General Sociology program we launched through CSU Online a few years ago. Congratulations, Eddie! How did you decide to study Sociology? I decided to study sociology because I felt that it would provide me with the critical thinking skills needed across multiple disciplines. I began […]
Sociology Chair and Professor Dr. Tara Opsal and colleagues have received funding to reestablish The Center for the Study of Crime and Justice as an interdisciplinary and community-rooted institute that will bring together faculty, students, practitioners, agencies, and stakeholders across Colorado to collaborate on improving criminal justice reform, addressing systemic inequalities, and providing technical assistance […]
After 25 years at CSU making sociology a tool for improving communities, the sociology professor is retiring on Jan. 3.
Tara Opsal has taken over as chair of the CSU Department of Sociology, becoming the first woman-identified faculty member to hold this position in the department.
