Professor Western will continue in his roles as Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Justice Lab into 2025, and will take up the role of President at the Russell Sage Foundation in July 2025.
Jonathan Cole's new edited volume, Smoother Pebbles: Essays in the Sociology of Science, is out now through Columbia University Press. The book is composed of journal articles that span Professor Cole's entire career, and that trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of science.
Supported by a three-year $1.7 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Lab aims to build the United States' first archive to center the political ideas and movement-building of incarcerated individuals.
Professor Stark's new edited volume, Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft, is out now through Columbia University Press. The volume is composed of reflections from some of the discipline's most distinguished researchers (many of whom are affiliated with Columbia).
The initiative brings together senior faculty in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to set vision and planning for innovating teaching and learning across the University.
The new Carcerality, Law, and Punishment Workshop will be co-convened by members of the sociology departments at Columbia and NYU.