Recent News

  • Two sociologists join Center for Diversity Innovation inaugural cohort of scholars
    2/5/21
    We are fortunate to have two sociologists joining the 2020-2021 Distinguished Visiting Scholars program at UB: Dr. Waverly Duck and Dr. John Major Eason.
  • Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award Winner
    5/2/22
    The winner of the 2019-2020 “Graduate School’s Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award” is Dr. Aysegul Balta Ozgen for her dissertation “Refugee Integration in Comparative Perspective: Syrians in Canada, Germany, Turkey, and the United States.”  Dr. Balta Ozgen was a student in the Sociology Department and received her Ph.D. from UB in June 2019. 
  • New Criminology Major
    1/31/22
    The Department of Sociology now offers Criminology as a major. A BA in Criminology focuses on the nature and causes of crime, the behavior of criminals, and how society reacts to crime and criminals. A minor in Criminology is also available. This year, we are sponsoring a Crime and Justice Issues series to foster conversations about criminology and to promote our new major. For more information, please contact ugradsoc@buffalo.edu.