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Professor Beverly Silver Receives AI-Informed Discovery and Inquiry Seed Grant

Professor Beverly Silver Receives AI-Informed Discovery and Inquiry Seed Grant

Inaugural Recipients of the AI-Informed Discovery and Inquiry Seed Grants announced. AI Tools for the Study of World-Historical Patterns of Social ProtestPrincipal Investigator: Beverly Silver, Professor in the Department of […]

AAS 2024 Book Award Winners Announced

AAS 2024 Book Award Winners Announced

Ho-fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy, received the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, post-1900) for his book City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule (Cambridge […]

Inaugural survey by Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative benchmarks sentiments and experiences across Baltimore

Inaugural survey by Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative benchmarks sentiments and experiences across Baltimore

Lead author Michael Bader, an associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins and faculty director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative, on Baltimore Area Survey.

Underwriting Souls Launches

Underwriting Souls Launches

Alexandre (Sasha) White and his collaborator Pyar Seth launch Underwriting Souls, a new digital archive and exhibit on the slavery-related holdings at Lloyd’s, one of the oldest insurance companies in […]

Professor Ho-fung Hung in the New York Times

Professor Ho-fung Hung in the New York Times

Young People in China Can’t Find Work, and Xi Jinping Has Only One Response In August the Chinese government released a shocking piece of data: A record 21.3 percent of […]

Open Rank Faculty Search in Sociology

Open Rank Faculty Search in Sociology

As part of a strategic investment for a transformative expansion of the faculty of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University is […]

PhD alum just elected the next ASA President!

PhD alum just elected the next ASA President!

Adia Harvey Wingfield Elected 2024–2025 President; Allison J. Pugh Is Vice President We are pleased to announce that Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected the […]

APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Best Book Prize

APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Best Book Prize

The American Political Science Association awarded Rina Agarwala’s book, The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration, the 2023 best book prize.

ASA Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award

ASA Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award

Congratulations to Rina Agarwala! The committee for the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award announced her book, The Migration-Development Regime, the 2023 winner! […]

Rina Agarwala Receives Best Book Award

Rina Agarwala Receives Best Book Award

2023 ASA Sociology of Development Book Award Winner The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration  Oxford University Press, 2022