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Change in Departmental Administration
Starting Fall 2009, the Department of Sociology will have a new Chair, Dr. Karen Hegtvedt and a new ... Read more >>
Associated Faculty News: Dr. Paul R. Wolpe

Dr. Paul R. Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Emory Center for ... Read more >>

Adjunct Faculty News: Dr. Frank Howell

Dr. Frank Howell, Emory Sociology Department adjunct faculty, was featured in The Wall Street ... Read more >>

Graduate News

We are very pleased that the Social Psychology program in the Department of Sociology at Emory ... Read more >>

Faculty News: Dr. Sam Cherribi & Dr. Roberto Franzosi

Dr. Sam Cherribi, director of the Emory Development Initiative (EDI) and sociology professor, ... Read more >>

Faculty News: Dr. Roberto Franzosi

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About the Department

Department of Sociology
Emory University
1555 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322

Phone: 404-727-7510
Fax: 404-727-7532

Department Administration

Chair of Sociology
 Karen
 Hegtvedt

Director of Graduate Studies
 Cathryn
 Johnson


Director of Graduate Recruitment
 Richard
 Rubinson


Director of Undergraduate Studies
 Tracy Scott

Department Events

 

Fall 2009 - Brown Bag Speaker Series

 Time DateLocation
 12:00-1:00 pm
Friday, October 9
 206 Tarbutton Hall
 

Ellen Idler, Professor of Sociology.

“Understanding recent changes in suicide rates among the middle-aged: Period or cohort effects?”


Time
Date
Location
 12:00-1:00 pm
Friday, October 30
206 Tarbutton Hall
 

Christie Parris, Sociology PhD Student.

"Justice for all? The effects of previous behavior, political liberalism, and identity on perceptions of green and environmental injustice."

and

Lesley Watson, Sociology PhD Student.

"Environmental identity and social networks as predictors of environmentally-friendly behaviors.

  *Each will give have a 10-15 minute presentation on individual work on this project.

TimeDate
Location
 12:00-1:00 pm
Friday, November 20 206 Tarbutton Hall
  Paul Root Wolpe, Director of the Emory Center for Ethics.

 Time Date Location
 12:00-1:00 pm
Friday, December 4
206 Tarbutton Hall
 

Christopher Bail, Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

He studies cultural sociology, immigration, and collective violence using relational and set theoretic methodologies.