Alumni Events and News

The Department of Sociology invites you to our Alumni Reception at the American Sociological Association meetings in Chicago. The reception will be held on Saturday, August 9, from 8:00 to 10:00pm at the Game Room bar of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, 12 S Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 (it’s located on 2nd floor of the hotel: https://www.chicagoathletichotel.com/restaurants/game-room/). We will have a dedicated section in the Game Room (the Grandstand) and enjoy games, drinks, and snacks.

We encourage alumni to email recent publications to Esther Peters for inclusion on this page. 

Rodney Coates. 2024. Critical Race and the Search for Truth. Bristol University Press. The book was featured in this Transforming Society podcast.  

Karlyn Gorski. 2024. "Sent out, Kept In: Detainment-Based Discipline in a Public High School." Sociology of Education 0(0).  

Derek Hyra. 2024. Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur. University of California Press.