Department of Sociology

Keeping Essential Workers Safe

Prof. Jennifer Bair and Graduate Student Kathryn Babineau Study Migrant Farmworkers and COVID-19

The Work of Retrieval

Prof. Krishan Kumar reflects on forgotten classics in comparative historical sociology

Award Winning and Creative

Professor B. Brian Foster premiers a new short film, We Dance, as his previous film continues to win awards and gain recognition at film festivals across the globe

Can stories change how the economy works?

Prof. Simone Polillo discusses how the Bank of Italy relied on narratives of crisis to help shape governance

Drawing Connections between Past and Present

Prof. Adam Slez studies origins of American populism

Science under pressure

Prof. Fiona Greenland and Michelle Fabiani (U of New Haven) discuss what it takes to do good science under pressure

Excellence in Teaching

Prof. Rose Buckelew has been awarded the 2022 All-University Teaching Award

Expert Analysis

Prof. Fiona Greenland and Jade McGlynn (Monterey Initiative) decipher Russia’s cultural project

Expert Analysis

Prof. Fiona Greenland and Jade McGlynn (Monterey Initiative) decipher Russia’s cultural project

Award Winning and Creative

Professor B. Brian Foster premiers a new short film, We Dance, as his previous film continues to win awards and gain recognition at film festivals across the globe

Can stories change how the economy works?

Prof. Simone Polillo discusses how the Bank of Italy relied on narratives of crisis to help shape governance

Keeping Essential Workers Safe

Prof. Jennifer Bair and Graduate Student Kathryn Babineau Study Migrant Farmworkers and COVID-19

The Work of Retrieval

Prof. Krishan Kumar reflects on forgotten classics in comparative historical sociology

Science under pressure

Prof. Fiona Greenland and Michelle Fabiani (U of New Haven) discuss what it takes to do good science under pressure

Excellence in Teaching

Prof. Rose Buckelew has been awarded the 2022 All-University Teaching Award

Drawing Connections between Past and Present

Prof. Adam Slez studies origins of American populism

Undergraduate

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News & Announcements

Congratulations to Fiona Greenland, whose book Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy just won the ASA Culture Section’s Mary Douglas Award for Best Book.

June 28, 2022

Congratulations to Adam Slez for his article published in American Journal of Sociology

June 17, 2022

Isaac Reed Appointed Director of Politics & Social Thought

May 4, 2022

Article in UVA Today Profiling Jenn Bair's Contributions to the Interdisciplinary Course on Democracy and Inequality

April 29, 2022

Graduate

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Publications

The Tumbleweed Society

The Tumbleweed Society

Working and Caring in an Insecure Age

The Making of the Populist Movement

State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier

Adam Slez

Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism

How US Audiences Create Meaning across Platforms

To Change the World

To Change the World

The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

Empires

A Historical and Political Sociology

Power in Modernity

Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies

Isaac Ariail Reed

The Ascent of Market Efficiency

Finance That Cannot Be Proven

Census

Understanding the Issues

Teresa Sullivan

Ruling Culture

Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Fiona Greenland

The Sins of the Fathers

The Sins of the Fathers

Germany, Memory, Method

Soul Mates

Soul Mates

Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos

W. Bradford Wilcox

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