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The Department of Sociology

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Department News

Professor David Stark and PhD student Yanze Yu
Yanze Yu and David Stark at Tsinghua University

Professor David Stark and PhD Student Yanze Yu in China

June 07, 2026
Students

Students receive awards at 2026 department graduation reception

May 23, 2026
Harriet Zuckerman

Harriet Zuckerman receives honorary degree at 2026 Commencement

May 17, 2026
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Recent Publications

To Protect and Serve Capital: Policing, Real Estate Development, and the Regulation of Invested Spaces in New York City
To Protect and Serve Capital: Policing, Real Estate Development, and the Regulation of Invested Spaces in New York City

Hannah Pullen-Blasnik

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Seeing Like a Company or a Customer: Selective Empathy in Pricing

Barbara Kiviat, Carly Knight

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(Trans)National Gender Expertise and the Politics of Recognition

Tara Gonsalves

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A Platform for Change: Gig-Ification, Reclassification, and the Reorganization of California’s Grocery Industry

Katy Habr

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Affordances and the Sensual Ecology of UFO Sightings

Jack LaViolette

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The Science of Blackness: Biology and Social Science in Black-Focused Scholarship, 1900–2020

Elizabeth Adetiba, Adam Reich

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The Transition from Prison to Community

Alia Nahra, David Knight, Bruce Western

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From the Block to the Beat: How Violence in Officers’ Neighborhoods Influences Racially Biased Policing

Samuel Donahue, Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

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