Graduate
Our graduate program has a longstanding reputation for attracting and training first-rate students with a commitment to social justice and a passion for changing the world.
Interested in graduate studies in Sociology?
Graduate Degree Programs
Message from the Director of Graduate Studies
Thank you for your interest in our department鈥檚 graduate training, which consists of both Ph.D. and M.A. programs. Many things make 艾可直播 College an attractive site to study sociology. Our graduate program has a longstanding reputation for attracting and training first-rate students with a commitment to social justice and a passion for changing the world. Our talented and widely-published聽faculty聽are committed to strong research, mentoring, and teaching. They provide in-depth exposure to the central traditions of sociology while encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research. Our聽Departmental Seminar Series聽provides an ongoing forum for exposing students and 艾可直播to cutting-edge research, and offers a great opportunity for graduate students to dialogue and develop relations with a wide variety of important sociologists.
Many of our 艾可直播and graduate students are public sociologists who collaborate with groups working for social change, and who frequently appear in the national and international media. We are a vibrant and supportive community that embraces methodological pluralism and values high-caliber research that makes a difference in the world.
Our department members have wide-ranging interests, and use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in their research. We have particularly strong concentrations of expertise in the areas of: Aging and the Life Course; Environmental Sociology; Family and Carework; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology; Race, Class and Gender; and the Sociology of Development. Our聽艾可直播clusters聽page provides a sense of our leading concentrations of 艾可直播interest and expertise. I encourage you to look at our聽faculty鈥檚 individual profiles聽to learn more about their research and other professional activities. Our graduate students do research on a wide array of topics, including: illegal drug markets; the social causes of climate change; racial disparities in institutionalization; social movements; low-income single mothers; police militarization; and the World Bank and other international organizations. Information about our current students can be found聽here.
If you have any questions about our graduate program, don鈥檛 hesitate to contact us. Our Director of Graduate Admissions is聽Wen Fan.
