Ranked among the nation’s top programs,
Penn State’s Department of Sociology and Criminology offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate education with a broad liberal arts focus, extensive faculty mentorship, and academic rigor in topics like family, religion, crime, and the criminal justice system.
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Director, Undergraduate Program in Sociology
Associate Professor of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, PSU Rock Ethics Institute
Faculty Affiliate, PSU Social Thought Program
Member, PSU Society for the Study of Religion
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.
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography
SSRI Co-Funded Faculty
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.
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Professor of Sociology and Criminology
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.
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John Kramer Professor of Sociology and Criminology
Darrell Steffensmeier received one of his field’s most prestigious honors— the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) 2023 Edwin H. Sutherland Award.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
SSRI Co-Funded Faculty
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.
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Roy C. Buck Professor of American Institutions and Sociology, Labor and Employment Relations, and Women's Studies
Associate Director, Population Research Institute
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.
September 23, 2024
noon–1:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
September 23, 2024
5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
September 24, 2024
9:00 a.m.–1:00 a.m.
Washington, D.C.
September 25, 2024
12:20 p.m.–1:10 p.m.
September 26, 2024
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center