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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 Emeritus Ken Liberman Receives Distinguished Book Award
Professor Liberman adds yet another award to his many wonderful accomplishments!
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Ken Liberman who has been awarded the 2023 Distinguished Book Award from the ASA’s Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis section for his latest book Tasting Coffee: An Inquiry Into Objectivity (SUNY Press).
The Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually by the American Sociological Association (ASA) in recognition of an ASA member’s outstanding book published within two years prior to the award year
Film Screening – Ice Cream Sellers
The Ice Cream Sellers (75”) tells the story of two little siblings and the genocide survivors of the Rohingya community who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh after a brutal genocide. While most of the Rohingya people were exhausted from the weight of their trauma, the two siblings began their new life with hard work, selling cheap ice-cream door to door in the world´s largest refugee camp in a desperate attempt to earn enough money to bribe officials for the release of their father from prison in Myanmar.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 @ 5 PM – JSMA Ford Lecture Hall 2
Haisu Huang Graduate Scholarship
Haisu Huang has been awarded the Division of Graduate Studies’ Betty Foster McCue Graduate Scholarship! This scholarship is awarded to students whose research is related to human development and performance. Haisu has been awarded for her wonderful ethnographic dissertation research on the recovery processes and outcomes for survivors of the 2020 Holiday Farm wildfire.