Sociology major Yilmaz (Suleyman) Yoruk has been selected to participate in this year’s American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Honors Program in Denver, CO from August 16th through August 20th. The Honors Program is designed to give students a rich and stimulating introduction to the Sociology discipline and to the ASA Annual Meeting, the “premier” event for...

 On February 11, 2012, the following Ithaca College students were inducted into Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society:

Karlita Bleam

Emily Brown

Jessica Crispino

Clara Fadina

Rebekah Forni

Sophie Glassman

Allie Goldsmith

Ricky Granderson

Tammie Harris

Keyla Hernandez

Lisa Hersh

Malia Hurwitz

Hilary Jabs

Jacqueline Keating

Jessica Kloner

Marianna Manganiello

Shannon McGuinness

Johann Peiris

Devon Ritz

Hannah Schack

Russell Soifer-Gorelick

Laura St. John

Sara Stevens

Nathaniel Stritzinger

Stephanie Strzepek

Melissa Tauscher

Renee Taylor

Chelsea Townley

Yilmaz Suleyman Yoruk

Chelsea Young

Yilmaz Suleyman Yoruk (Class of 2013) has been selected to participate in the Trauma Research Program, funded by the National Science Foundation Research Experiences For Undergraduates Program at Syracuse University and SUNY Oswego.  In the Summer of 2012 Suleyman will attend an intensive four-week summer paid internship on site at the SUNY Oswego campus, and engage in coursework,...

 Stephen Sweet's (Associate Professor of Sociology), and co-author Phyllis Moen's (McKnight Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota) article "Dual Earners Preparing for Job Loss: Agency, Linked Lives, and Resilience" has been accepted for publication in the journal Work and Occupations.  

Alicia Swords, assistant professor of Sociology, has been selected as one of seven finalists for the New England Resource Center for Higher Education's (NERCHE) 2011 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. Dr. Swords was recognized for her effort to co-create the service learning for social justice program with the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, her work to offer students opportunities to connect with and learn from a national network of poor people’s organizations dedicated to building a broad-based movement to end poverty, as well as her leadership to develop immersive curricular experiences with a Dominican Republic grassroots social justice organization. As the review committee chair wrote in his letter to Dr. Swords notifying her of her finalist status: “We would like to thank you for your commitment to connecting your teaching, research/creative activity, and service to community engagement in the context of social justice and for pushing the boundaries of faculty work in fundamentally new directions.”