Ryan Fajardo was recently selected to participate in the American Sociological Association’s Honors Program. Ryan was selected on the basis of his paper “Working through the App: Taskrabbit and Paid Line Sitting,” which grew out the fieldwork he conducted for his Sociology Honors Thesis. Ryan will now… Continue reading »
Please join the Anthropology/Sociology Department THESIS COLLOQUIUM Tuesday, January 24, 2:00 – 4:00 pm Paresky 112 Seniors presenting their work in progress are:… Continue reading »
Memory and Silence Sociology professor Olga Shevchenko has been visiting with Russian families and studying their old photo albums, searching for clues about the Soviet past and knitting together a narrative about memory and silence. Shevchenko became interested in photographs and memory while working on her book Crisis and the… Continue reading »
Celebration cake Professor Shevchenko and Ashley Professor Nolan and Ryan Faculty and students enjoying the evening. Continue reading »
Professor Nolan and Ryan Professor Shevchenko and Ashley Celebration cake Faculty and students enjoying the get-together… Continue reading »
Grounded in the stories of their actual visits, What They Saw in America takes the reader through the journeys of four distinguished, yet very different foreign visitors – Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb – who traveled to the United States between 1830 and… Continue reading »
Prof. Simko‘s new book,The Politics of Consolation: Memory and the Meaning of September 11 (Oxford University Press, 2015), received Honorable Mention for the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, awarded annually by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. Prof. Simko will receive the award… Continue reading »
In 2016, the Orton Prize for excellence in Anthropology was awarded to Isabel Hanson, who will be spending the summer in the Berkshires, doing ethnographic research on the community health worker programs in North Adams, under the auspices of the Center for Learning in Action. The… Continue reading »