Department ofSociology and Criminology

Gary Adler Jr. was one of four College of the Liberal Arts faculty members who received Fulbright Scholar Awards for the 2023-24 academic year.

An American born in 2019 will spend a larger share of their lifetime taking prescription drugs than being married or receiving an education, according to new research by Jessica Ho.

Eric Silver’s commitment to seeking diverse viewpoints in the classroom was recently acknowledged by Heterodox Academy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization devoted to improving higher education institutions by promoting the virtues of viewpoint diversity, open inquiry, and constructive disagreement. He was one of seven winners of the 2023 Heterodox Academy Open Inquiry Awards.

Darrell Steffensmeier received one of his field’s most prestigious honors— the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) 2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Award.

Sarah Brothers received the 2024 College of the Liberal Arts' Roy C Buck Award, which recognizes the best paper accepted or published by an untenured, tenure-track assistant professor in the college within the last year.

Steady employment has long been the assumed standard associated with the American man, especially by the baby boomer generation. New research is pushing back on the archetype and shedding light on the potential consequences of upholding the “breadwinner” ideology in a labor market in which reality is strikingly different.