Since Donald Trump entered the White House in 2016, his political behavior has become a recurring subject of debate in political science and sociology. The pattern is by now familiar: open disregard ...

This seminar will serve as an introduction into current work in the political sociology of developing societies. It focuses on the debate in "transitology"-- how do societies and states transform ...

Why do nation-states go to war? Can international institutions promote peace? And how do people organize across borders to address injustice? This courses examines the politics and sociology of war, ...

This is a departmental mini-seminar, open to graduate students only. It meets for six times after the spring break. Besides doing the common readings each week, students are expected to report on ...

The Department of Sociology offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Sociology and participates in a graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in Social Psychology.