Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane were interviewed by Kris Boyd on Think, Texas NPR: npr.org/podcasts/47885… about Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future and Dan Skinner’s Conversations KCUR: Kansas Public Radio.

In every issue, the ASA's Culture Section Newsletter interviews a cultural scholar having a major influence in the field. Our faculty colleague, Karen Cerulo, was the subject of the latest article on this topic. Read “Four questions for Karen A. Cerulo.” asaculturesection.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/winter…

Faculty member Karen A. Cerulo and graduate alumna Janet M. Ruane discussed their new book Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future on Larry Rifkin’s, “American Trends”, Cara Santa Maria’s “Talk Nerdy” & Michael Asford’s, “The Follow Up Question”.

PhD Candidate Marilyn Baffoe-Bonnie, PhD published a new article "Lived experience with sickle cell disease: Predictors of altruistic participation in clinical research" in Social Science & Medicine. doi.org/10.1016/j.socs…

Melissa Aronczyk and Maria Espinoza are the recipients of this year's National Communication Association (NCA) award in the Public Relations division for Outstanding Book/Monograph for their book A Strategic Nature: Public relations and the politics of American environmentalism.

Arlene Stein wrote an essay about why the US rightwing is attacking schools and teachers--and what we can do about it. onlysky.media/astein/knowled…

Arlene Stein's "Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars" was featured in LitHub. The essay is from the new edition of her book "The Stranger Next Door, Or How the Right Divides Us," published by Beacon Press. sociology.rutgers.edu/tmp/moral-pani…

Prof. Karen Cerulo and grad alumna Janet Ruane's book Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future was featured on Paul Samuel Dolman’s What Matter Most, Andrea Minghelli’s Harvesting Happiness, Badri Rao’s Ideas and Insights and in La Republica.

Congratulations to Ali Chaudhary on his well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! 🎊🎉🍾

Congratulations to Anthony Landers, who is a recipient of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!  You can learn more about this exceptional honor and Anthony's project here: acls.org/recent-fellows…

Congratulations to Jeff Dowd, who is a recipient of the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education!

Congratulations to Prof. Karen A. Cerulo and grad program alumna Janet M. Ruane. Their book, Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future, won the ASA Culture Section’s Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology, 2023. bit.ly/3oTqOY8

📢📢Rutgers Sociology is hiring:  jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/206709

Our colleague, Karen Cerulo published “Enduring Relationships: Social Aspects of Perceived Interactions with the Dead” in Socius, an ASA publication. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Professor Arlene Stein was featured in the Contexts Magazine blog.  contexts.org/blog/book-bann…

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Poling on successfully defending her dissertation this week! Attachment : sociology.rutgers.edu/tmp/poling-def…

We are very excited to announce that Emily Handsman will join the department as our newest assistant professor in Fall 2024.  Emily is a researcher & teacher focused on how equity initiatives unfold in K-12 schools. She received her PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University

Congratulations to Armani Beck on accepting a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College. She will begin her appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in July.

Congratulations to Rutgers Sociology newest tenured faculty member, Associate Professor Lei Lei!

Prof. Emerita Karen A. Cerulo and Grad Program Alumna Janet M. Ruane’s work on apologies was featured in a BBC.com story on AI generated apologies bbc.co.uk/future/article…