Recent News

Sociologist Van Tran was interviewed for a piece on gentrification in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood published in the LA Times.

Sociologist and Department Chair Shamus Khan will deliver a master class on May 8th at the Columbia Global Center Santiago on "The Political and Economic Power of the Elites".

For more, view the event page.

Dora Arenas, the administrative assistant for the Sociology Department at Columbia University, has been awarded the Chinweike Okegbe Service Award for her decades of impeccable support and guidance. She has been crucial to the success of faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate majors alike.

In recognition and honor of his life, work, and legacy, Columbia GSAS has announced the Devon T. Wade Mentorship and Service Award, to be given annually to a doctoral student who embodies the spirit and ethos of Dr. Devon Tyrone Wade, who posthumously received his PhD yesterday from the Department of Sociology. To learn more about Dr. Wade and the award, see the official GSAS press release.

Sociologist Jennifer Lee published a paper in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on the challenges of tracking immigration across different Asian American communities as a result of varied migration histories and socioeconomic profiles. Access the article here.

Sociologist Maria Abascal has been awarded a Provost Office's Junior Faculty Grant for Spring 2018 for her project entitled Trust, Cooperation, and Collective Action in Diverse Communities. See the full list of awardees here.

Sociologist Jennifer Lee wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about the challenges faced by census officials and policy makers in attempting to collect data on Asian-American immigrant populations from varied countries of origin. See more here.