Ever since Anita Hill testified in front of Congress about her experiences working for Clarence Thomas, then the chair of the EEOC, the issue of sexual harrassment has received significantly more attention. The difference between the workplace culture Hill encountered then and many (though not all) corporate workplaces today is stark.
Despite recent debates around public engagement and the value of our work, there are indications that sociology is still valued and vibrant. One such indication is the return of sociology to Washington University in St. Louis.
The sociology department, re-formed this semester after a nearly 25-year hiatus, currently consists of three professors, all new or returning inhabitants of St. Louis: David Cunningham, Jake Rosenfeld and Adia Harvey Wingfield. Each has unique expectations for the department and for the University.
The Department seeks applications for two tenured positions at the associate professor (possibly early full) level. The 2016 search targets scholars who use state-of-the-art quantitative methods in their research with a focus on either (1) inequality and stratification or (2) social movements and political sociology.
The new Department of Sociology will offer three new undergraduate courses in the fall of 2015
Three newly recruited professors will teach three classes offered in the new sociology department next semester.
Union decline associated with rising income inequality. Professor Jake Rosenfeld expresses his opinion.
Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari, researchers on consumer behavior and how it effects the economy, wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post Dispatch in October 2007 in which they predicted that an end to the relentless trend of rising household debt and a subsequent crash in household spending could lead to a killer U.S. recession.
After doing without a sociology department for nearly 25 years, Washington University in St. Louis has reinstated the department and chosen a longtime faculty member at the institution, Steven Fazzari, to be its first chair.
Steven Fazzari, PhD, a leading scholar on the relationship between rising income inequality and macroeconomic trends in the United States, will chair the recently re-established Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has announced.