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Our department is a vibrant community featuring leading scholars within sociology and related interdisciplinary fields. Faculty have expertise in a range of theories and methods, from ethnography to social network analysis, underscoring our commitment to training our students in the many tools within the sociological toolkit. Program strengths include the sociology of environment, gender, political & economic sociology, and race with increased focus on sociology of health and cultural sociology.
Territorial Acknowledgment
The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians of Oregon, and continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.*
We express our respect for all federally recognized Tribal Nations of Oregon. This includes the Burns Paiute Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and the Klamath Tribes. We also express our respect for all other displaced Indigenous peoples who call Oregon home.
*We thank the Native Strategies Group for this portion of our statement.
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Professor Claire Herbert Receives Teaching Award
Congratulations to Sociology Professor Claire Herbert, this year’s recipient of the Tykeson Teaching Award. These awards are presented every year to one faculty member in each division of the College of Arts and Sciences: the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Recipients are recognized for their excellence in teaching.
In the last three years, Professor Herbert has continued to teach an array of Sociology classes that also serve the needs of students in GSS and CRIM, as well as a topical class in the Clark Honors College. Professor Herbert developed a strong, large enrolling
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Alumni and friends of UO Sociology please join us at Sam’s Tavern in downtown Bellevue on Friday March 31, 4:30-7:30pm.
Happy hour drinks, sliders (vegetarian and meat) and bottomless fries on us.
Just a few blocks from the Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue (Seattle’s Eastside). https://samstavernseattle.com/sams_location/bellevue/
Graduate Student Award Winners 2021-22
The Department of Sociology is thrilled to announce the winners of this year‘s Sociology Graduate Student Awards. The Awards Committee had a very hard time making these decisions, as the applications were truly remarkable. Congratulations to the following award recipients:
Wasby-Johnson Dissertation Award
Lawrence Carter Graduate Student Research Award
Joan Acker Graduate Fellowship
Charles W. Hunt Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching