Please join us for our 2026 Karl Scheussler Lecture with Dr. Jennie Brand TODAY at 2pm in Woodburn Hall 200!

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Join us for our WISIU talk with Dr. Robert Crosnoe on “The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times.” Today at 12pm in Woodburn Hall 200!

Join us for WISIU with Dr. Angelica Loblack at 3:30 in IMU Maple Room for her talk titled “Tethered to Hierarchy: Racial Socialization and Intimate Race-Making in Multiracial Families”

Relatable: hasslers harm your health. Oh wow, they may make you age faster too. Wait, it’s work by @letitbk.bsky.social & Brea Perry, with quotes by Deb Umberson. wapo.st/3OVL3kK

Come by WISIU today for Dr. Joshua Doyle’s talk titled “Effect of Experiences of Others’ Generosity and Perceptions of Others’ Giving on a Range of Moral Views” at 12:00pm in Woodburn Hall 200!

We are welcoming Dr. Joya Misra in Bloomington where she will be speaking on “Public Sociology in the Academy” tomorrow at 2pm in Woodburn Hall 200! @joyamisra.bsky.social

Join us today for WIM with Dr. Steven Ruggles for his talk titled “Census Technology, Politics, and Institutional Change, 1790-2020” at Woodburn Hall 200!

Join us tomorrow for WISIU’s talk with Dr. Nima Dahir at 12pm in the SSRC Grand Hall in Woodburn 200! She will be giving a talk titled “Locating Attention: Variation in Governance Across Black American and Somali Refugee Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio.”

We had a successful Preparing Future Faculty Conference this past Friday! Special thanks to our sponsors, organizers, volunteers, and participants!

Tomorrow we have our first WISIU talk of the spring semester with Dr. Allison Schnable at 12pm at IMU Walnut Room. Her talk is titled: The Price of Time: Inequality and Accessing Services for Children. Please join us!

Tomorrow is the 31st Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Conference! This year’s conference theme is Future in Focus: Preparing for the Possibilities Ahead with our featured keynote speaker, Dr. Justin Garcia. We hope to see you there!

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Join us tomorrow at 3pm in Woodburn Hall 200 for our Grimshaw Lecture with featured guest, Florencia Torche! @ftorche.bsky.social

Happening today at noon at IMU Oak Room!!

Join us this Friday at 12pm for our featured WISIU guest speaker, Abigail Ocobock! Her research talk titled “Sam-Sex Marriage and Sexual Fluidity: Institutional Constraint and Agency” will be at IMU Oak Room.

WISIU happening right now with a research talk by Tianyao Qu at IMU Persimmon room!

Our department is hiring! Consider applying for those who have research areas in medicine, health and/or well-being. Follow the link to apply: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311234/...

We are hiring!

Maleah Fekete’s WISIU talk is happening now at IMU Persimmon Room!

New publication spotlight featuring Dr. Brea Perry and Dr. Siyung Peng!

Big thank you to everyone who attended yesterday and provided feedback!

Happening now at Wylie 101!!

Coming up this Friday is our very own @drichardsonsoc.bsky.social talk on the “Opportunities from Ambiguity: How Healthcare Professionals Negotiate Order to Coordinate Patient Care in a Cambodian Nongovernmental Organization”!

Come join us today in Wylie Hall 101 at noon!!

Join us at WISIU this Friday at noon to hear about Aryaman Sharma, PhD student, on his research talk titled “Mapping Class Structure and Stratification in India: A Latent Class Analysis”!

Last day of #ASA2025 and IU Sociology is taking over the Tuesday morning sessions!

IU Sociology afternoon sessions are happening now! #ASA2025

Today we have IU Sociology today for ASA retirement network and book forum sessions! #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social

Happy Monday! IU Sociology is taking over #ASA2025 this morning!

IU Sociology taking over #ASA2025 this Sunday afternoon sessions!!

We also have @kojichavez.bsky.social and @emhernandez.bsky.social participating in #ASA2025 Thematic and Special Sessions today!

IU Sociology Sunday @ASA morning sessions!

IU Sociology Saturday Afternoon sessions @asanews.bsky.social !!

IU Sociology is in @asanews.bsky.social Chicago!! See our Saturday morning sessions:

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Open access! Did you see this recent research in Sociological Methodology from ASA members Brian C. Kelly (IU-Bloomington) & Christie Sennott (Purdue)? Authors describe processes & procedures for conducting event-centered interviews & highlight this method's advantages. bit.ly/42ZUFhN

Join us this Friday (5/2) at WiSIU to hear from PhD candidate Tania Ravaei. She will be presenting a co-authored paper titled, "From 'Scholar Denied' to 'Architect of the Civil Rights Movement': Lessons from W.E.B. Du Bois's Canonization.” We'll meet in SISR 100 at 12pm.

Join us at WiSIU today (4/25) as we welcome Dr. Lena Hipp from the University of Potsdam to present “Partnership penalties for working in gender-atypical occupations? Observational and experimental evidence from Germany." We will meet at 12pm in the SSRC (Woodburn Hall 200).

Tomorrow (4/23), the sociology honors students present their theses posters! Join us in Ballantine 703 from 5-7pm.

This afternoon!

This Friday (4/4), PhD student Jessica Short will giver her WiSIU presentation, “Perceptions of Sub-Fecundity and the Risk of Undesired Pregnancy during the Transition to Adulthood." We'll meet at 12pm in SISR 100.

Don't forget to join us this afternoon for our 2025 Public Sociology Forum-- A Conversation with Dr. Philip Cohen (@philipncohen.com)!

Make sure to attend the Annual Gieryn Lecture next week on Thursday (4/3)! This year's speaker is Dr. Banu Subramaniam, who will share the talk "Queering Global Flora: Plant Lives in the Afterlives of Empire." The lecture is hosted by Gender Studies and takes place at 4pm in the IMU Dogwood Room.

Open access! New research from ASA member Koji Chavez @kojichavez.bsky.social @iusociology.bsky.social examines the role diversity considerations play in job offers. @sociusjournal.bsky.social

Join us this Friday (3/28) to hear PhD student Soocheol Cho present his talk titled, “Perceptions of Remote Workers During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” We'll meet for WiSIU in SISR 100 at 12pm.

One week from today (on 3/31), we welcome Dr. Philip Cohen (@philipncohen.com) for our 2025 Public Sociology Forum. He will discuss the role of professional scholars in civic life and his recently published book, "Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists". Details below!

Join us tomorrow (3/14) at WiSIU to hear from Dr. Anthony Chen present "Puzzling through SFFA: The Roberts Court and the Backstopping of Minority Rule." We'll meet in the SSRC at 12pm.

This Friday (3/7), IU Sociology's own Dr. Koji Chavez (@kojichavez.bsky.social) presents a WiSIU work-in-progress, "Diversity Buffering: The Organization of Diversity Labor and the Consequences for 'Happy' Diversity Rhetoric." Join us in the SSRC at 1:30pm.

On Friday (2/28), we welcome Dr. Rachel Best to WiSIU for her talk "The Meanings of Disease: Stigmas, Frames, and their Causes and Consequences." Join us at 12pm in the SSRC.