Faculty and Staff

AP PHOTO of The funeral of the victims of the attack on Al-Hassan Mosque in Damascus, Jan 2012 from Haaretz article
UW SOC IN THE NEWS: New research quantifies bereavement and its lasting impacts
(August 7, 2024)
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UW Department of Sociology is pleased to welcome Audrey Dorélien to our faculty beginning in September 2024. 
(May 1, 2024)
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Patrick Greiner will join UW Sociology Faculty in Fall 2024
(April 29, 2024)
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Drew Messamore to join UW Department of Sociology in Fall 2024
(April 29, 2024)
Liz Litzler
Liz Litzler nominated for Equity & Inclusion Distinguished Staff Award
(February 21, 2024)
Jerald Herting and Sound Data students
Pilot project hopes to provide relevant data to policy makers 
(December 10, 2023)
SOC 403 students and faculty at Seattle City Hall
SOC 403: UW Sociology practicum immerses students in real-world projects
(December 10, 2023)
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Rosalind Kichler Joins Teaching Faculty
(May 18, 2023)
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Travels with Edgar
(April 26, 2023)
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Tyler McCormick Elected ASA Fellow
(April 14, 2023)
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Sasha Shen Johfre joins UW Sociology and CSSS
(January 31, 2023)
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David Takeuchi Receives Carl Taube Award for Lifetime Contributions to Mental Health Services
(October 17, 2022)
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Rodney Stark: A Reckless Eclectic Remembered
(August 23, 2022)
Dr. Pepper Schwartz sitting at her desk in a red sweater
Fifty Years of Relationships with Pepper Schwartz
(May 18, 2022)
book cover: Ending Mass Incarceration: Why it Persists and How to Achieve Meaningful Reform by Katherine Beckett
Katherine Beckett: Ending Mass Incarceration is Ambitious but Doable
(May 11, 2022)
Zack Almquist
Zack Almquist Receives Faculty Early Career Development Award
(May 3, 2022)
Theresa Rocha Beardall
Theresa Rocha Beardall receives NDIAS faculty fellowship
(April 11, 2022)
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Adrian Raftery wins 2022 Mindel C. Sheps Award
(April 11, 2022)
The University of Washington welcomed its most diverse cohort of new tenure-track faculty in 2021. Among the new hires are assistant professors (l-r) Jelani Ince, sociology, Esther Uduehi, marketing, and Angelic Amezcua, Spanish.
Faculty programs welcome most diverse cohort in UW history
(February 17, 2022)
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Zack Almquist Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology
(January 24, 2022)
Chart showing divorce rates spiking in early spring and late summer, before dipping in the fall and winter.
No, divorce rates in Washington didn’t rise during the pandemic
(November 3, 2021)
Graduate students collaborating in a room while wearing masks. They are discussing some text on the whiteboard.
Continuing the Tradition: Teaching Fellows Create a “Teaching Toolkit” for UW Sociology
(October 5, 2021)
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Almquist Receives ASA's 2021 Goodman Award
(October 4, 2021)
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Professor Alexes Harris works closely with UW Athletics to help student-athletes succeed
(September 23, 2021)
From left to right: Magda Boutros, Jelani Ince, Theresa Rocha Beardall
Sociology Welcomes New Faculty Members
(September 23, 2021)
A man receives a vaccination in East Hollywood, Los Angeles last week
The Delta variant and ‘breakthrough’ infections: should Americans be worried?
(August 5, 2021)
People in cars wait at a Covid testing and vaccination site at Barnett Park in Orlando, Florida
Covid cases in US may have been undercounted by 60%, study shows
(July 26, 2021)
Security and police try to prevent supporters from entering a homeless encampment as the camp's occupants await possible eviction by police after workers enclosed the area with a fence, at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto, June 22, 2021.
Opinion: The Trinity Bellwoods crackdown was not surprising — but there is a better way to respond to encampments
(July 10, 2021)
Two elderly adults sitting on a bench and wheel chair, looking out over the water
How long can a person live? The 21st century may see a record-breaker
(July 6, 2021)
A demonstrator holds their hands up while they kneel in front of the police at the Anaheim City Hall on June 1, 2020 in Anaheim, California, during a peaceful protest over the death of George Floyd. (Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty Images)
An Inside Look At Washington State's Policing And Race Curriculum For Recruits
(May 25, 2021)
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Zack Almquist Solving the Three-Body Problem
(May 12, 2021)
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Ann Frost on the Subtle Shifts in Teaching Spurred by COVID
(May 10, 2021)
David Takeuchi in a read shirt against a bookshelf backdrop
David Takeuchi's Long and Winding Road
(May 4, 2021)
Washington State’s Supreme Court Building, also known as the Temple of Justice, photographed on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Olympia, Wash. (Jovelle Tamayo for Crosscut)
After Blake, will Washington state repay victims of the war on drugs?
(April 8, 2021)
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Washington high court charts less punitive path on juvenile justice
(April 1, 2021)
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UW Sociology ranks highly in US News’ ‘Best Graduate School’ lists
(March 29, 2021)
Mary and Antonio Aramburu in Federal Way with their seven children
How the pandemic has changed Washington families for better, for worse … forever?
(March 13, 2021)
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Takeuchi Tracking Anti-Asian Racism During Pandemic
(March 12, 2021)
Community members hold a press conference addressing an upcoming Seattle City Council vote on an agreement between the Seattle Police Officers Guild and the city of Seattle at City Hall, Nov. 13, 2018.
Podcast | When defunding the police meets Seattle’s political reality
(January 28, 2021)
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Police contact at a young age leads to different outcomes for Black youth
(January 22, 2021)
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Can You Find True, Lasting Love on Tinder? Study Finds It's Possible
(January 7, 2021)
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Bob Crutchfield's Community Engagement During Retirement
(December 21, 2020)
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In a time of isolation, finding communion
(December 15, 2020)
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Early police stops had long-term consequences for Seattle’s Black youth, UW research shows
(December 2, 2020)
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The 2020 census: deadlines, politics and what may come next
(November 19, 2020)
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The Criminal Legal System as a Social Problem
(November 12, 2020)
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Teaching and Learning During COVID-19
(October 7, 2020)
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Q&A: Alexes Harris on defunding police, racial disparities in criminal justice
(September 28, 2020)
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Meet our new Assistant Professor, Patricia Louie
(September 23, 2020)
Muslim woman holding an American flag and raising her hand to take the citizenship oath
Steve Pfaff's Op-Ed in the Washington Post Highlights His Research on Discrimination Against Muslim and Atheist Families in US Schools 
(September 14, 2020)