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News Archive
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
An immersive experience in another part of the world can open up new horizons. It did for our anthropology major Chae Eun Kim '22 when she...
Thursday, January 5, 2023
A complete list of Sociology & Anthropology courses for the ...
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Friday, September 9, 2022
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology, the Center for Global Islamic Studies, and the Asian Studies Program invite applications for a tenure- track faculty position as Assistant Professor...
Sunday, August 7, 2022
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology (https://socanthro.cas.lehigh.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Need to catch up on coursework? Fulfill a requirement? For the summer, we are offering one Anthropology and three Sociology courses in the first session (May 24-June 30), and four Sociology...
Friday, March 4, 2022
Professor Danielle Lindemann's latest book, ...
Monday, September 27, 2021
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, effective Fall 2022. Potential candidates must have...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Africana Studies Program at Lehigh University invite applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Sociology,...
Thursday, February 11, 2021
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology will offer 12 courses this summer--7 in the first session (May 25-July 1), 5 in the second session (July 1-August 12). These include: ANTH 011...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
James Rathburn McIntosh, 84, of Bethlehem passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 in his home surrounded by his loving family. He was survived by his wife...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
In the summer of 2020, as protests against racial injustice multiplied around the US, Sociology & Anthropology faculty asked their students to share, anonymously, their experiences with racism...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
See Associate Professor Sirry Alang's excellent interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 1, 2020): "...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
See the latest issue of SOAN Intersections for features on...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, effective Fall 2020. Potential...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Dr. Stephen Kowalewski, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia talks about the "recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research in the Mixteca Alta region of...
Friday, July 19, 2019
The Department of Sociology &...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology will host a Career Expo on Monday, April 15 2019 beginning at 4:10 p.m. in the Rommele Global Commons. This event will include discussions of career...
Friday, September 28, 2018
Data from Collegefactual.com show that Lehigh's anthropology grads are among the best-paid in Pennsylvania. Consult the data at...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Fourteen students and three faculty from the Department of Sociology & Anthropology attended a performance of the play "Human Rites" by the...
Friday, March 30, 2018
Lehigh University's 2018 Robert C. and Virginia L. Williamson Award for Social Research, which recognizes the best published research in the social sciences in Lehigh University's...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Renowned sociologist Michael Kimmel, who first studied sociology under our own Dr. Jim McIntosh during the 1960s, has published a new...
Monday, January 8, 2018
The Department of Sociology &...
Monday, November 13, 2017
At the ceremony for Founder's Day 2017,...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Kelly Austin, associate professor of sociology, recently spoke with the BBC's World News Service about the unwanted effects of coffee cultivation in Uganda. The interview highlights Austin's...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
From The Brown and White:
The room is divided — five students...
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Thursday, November 17, 2016
On November 16, 2016, the eminent sociologist Dr. Saskia Sassen delivered the Robert C. Williamson Lecture at Lehigh University. Her presentation was...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
If you are considering Lehigh's Masters in Sociology program, we encourage you to attend the upcoming...
Friday, May 27, 2016
Research conducted by Margaret Hagerman (B.A. '04, M.A. '06), now an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at...
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Lehigh University was a very different place in 1966 when James McIntosh arrived straight from graduate school at Syracuse. What was then an all-male institution is now co-ed; the Department of...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Caroline Kusi, who earned her BA in Sociology from Lehigh in 2011, has accepted a new position--in Rwanda!
Caroline reports...
Monday, February 29, 2016
Students in Professor Judy Lasker's seminar "The Jewish Identity and...
Friday, February 19, 2016
Three of our Masters of Sociology students--Virginia Handley, Brittany Ridge, and Kristen Schmidt--will be presenting papers at the Eastern Sociology Society (ESS) Conference in Boston,...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Please join us for a Research Colloquium Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 4:10pm in Maginnes Rm 101. Professor Judith Lasker will present her current research, "Hoping to Help: The Promises and...
Thursday, November 5, 2015
On Saturday, November 14 Lehigh's College of Arts & Sciences will hold a Graduate Open House. We invite anyone considering our...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
On October 3, 2015, Lehigh University President John Simon officially dedicated the newly renovated Williams Hall as part of Lehigh's 150th...
Thursday, July 30, 2015
From the university website: The (Centennial) Class of 1966 broke with tradition by presenting Lehigh University with an academic scepter,...
Monday, June 15, 2015
Dr. John Gatewood, Professor of Anthropology, has pursued an especially active research agenda lately, studying the factors that grain farmers in eastern Pennsylvania perceive as...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Bravo to our graduate students who won summer research grants! Ginger Kuulei Handley and...
Monday, April 27, 2015
Dr. David Casagrande, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has received the 2015 Robert C. and Virginia L. Williamson Award for...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Dr. Heather Beth Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been named the recipient of the 2015...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Kelly Austin, who has been named to the prestigious Frank Hook Assistant...
Monday, April 13, 2015
Mike DeCrosta (BA Sociology, 2011) has been...
Friday, March 27, 2015
At the annual Dean's Awards banquet of the College of Arts and Sciences on March 26, Professor James McIntosh won a Schaufield Award for Advising Excellence in the social sciences. The award was...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Two students in the M.A. sociology program have been awarded prestigious Strohl Graduate Summer Research Fellowships.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Sociologists and anthropologists play a major role in public health research and projects. We observe this year's National Public Health Week through a number of...
Monday, February 23, 2015
Congratulations to Sociology Masters student Michael DeCrosta, who has received a $2500 grant from Lehigh University to explore ways to make South Bethlehem more walkable and...
Monday, February 23, 2015
Three Masters of Sociology students and one undergraduate Sociology student will be presenting their papers at the...
Friday, January 30, 2015
Heather Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been recognized by Lehigh's...
Monday, January 19, 2015
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology is pleased to announce that two new colleagues will be joining us this fall in tenure-track positions.
Sirry Alang, currently...
Monday, November 10, 2014
Sunny Huang, a junior Sociology major and Eckardt Scholar, has published...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Location: Maginnes Hall, Room 113
Time: 4:10 pm
Nessette Falu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-Cultural...
Thursday, October 16, 2014
The Berman Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, October 16, 2014
4:10PM - Humanities Center
Reception following with book signing
This event meets the 5x10 requirement for...
Monday, September 15, 2014
In 2012 Heather Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, made the decision with her family to sell their house and move into a small apartment in a Lehigh University dorm. The only faculty...
Monday, September 29, 2014
On Tuesday, October 14 at 8 p.m., renowned sociologist Dr. Elijah Anderson will present a public lecture entitled "Understanding...
Friday, August 29, 2014
When Theresa Mejia was a junior majoring in Global Studies at Lehigh in 2013, she enrolled in "Political Economy of Globalization" taught by Kelly Austin,...
Monday, July 21, 2014
Lehigh University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in social epidemiology, at the assistant professor level, effective Fall 2015. The position will be a joint appointment...
Monday, July 21, 2014
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Sociology. The successful candidate will have a research focus on...
Monday, June 23, 2014
Alessandra Bazo Vienrich, who received her M.A. in sociology from our department in May, has been profiled by the Lehigh...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Dr. Nikki Tannenbaum, Chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, has been named "Queen of the...
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Dr. Judith Lasker, our N.E.H. Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has been honored by Harvard University's Graduate School...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Lehigh's 146th Commencement was held on Monday, May 19, 2014. Congratulations to our newly minted MAs and BAs.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Jackie Krasas, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been tapped to fill a newly created position: Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs and International Initiatives. Her appointment in...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
On Thursday, April 17, Dr. Hugo Ceron-Anaya will give a public research presentation entitled "Golf is a Combat Sport: Towards a Relational Understanding of Sociology." Dr. Ceron-Anaya is...
Friday, April 4, 2014
Dr. Heather Beth Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been recognized for her service to Lehigh's College of Arts and Sciences. Her contributions as a student mentor, director of the...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
On Monday, April 28, students from our department presented original research from their thesis projects.
BA Students
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Lehigh University has awarded summer research grants to three students in our M.A. program. Congratulations to Mike DeCrosta who will be doing research on fracking with Prof. David Casagrande,...
Monday, March 24, 2014
Archaeologist Dr David Small, Professor of Anthropology, is the recipient of a Core Fulbright Scholar award to teach and conduct...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Dr Cati Coe, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Camden, will give a public talk on Tuesday, March 25 entitled "'Will...
Monday, February 3, 2014
Joanne Hoffman, who earned bachelors degrees in anthropology and chemical engineering from Lehigh (as part of the university's...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
One faculty member and three graduate students of the department will present their research at the Eastern Sociological...
Monday, November 25, 2013
David Casagrande, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh, has published an op-ed in The Morning Call challenging the way community leaders decided to sell the South Side's...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Kelly Austin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has co-authored an article in the journal Sociological Inquiry...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Congratulations to Lyndsey Collins, SSP major, who will be starting the Masters program in Sociology in January 2014. She is currently an outreach intern for IvyConnect, a private community in...
Monday, November 11, 2013
Joshua Lynn (2013 graduate of Lehigh's Sociology MA program) and Alessandra Vienrich (2nd-year student in the program) have been working on a survey of people using South Bethlehem's Greenway. See...
Thursday, October 31, 2013
From the Fall 2013 issue of Acumen, the magazine of Lehigh University's College of Arts & Sciences (p. 9):
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Friday, October 11, 2013
The Lehigh University Eckardt Scholars Program, Class of 2015 cohort, has published a book titled 'Look to the Sky' (2012). This book is a collection of fifteen short stories examining...
Friday, September 27, 2013
Natalya Surmachevska, a student in Lehigh University's MA sociology program, has spent her summer vacation working with mobile eye care clinics in the West African nation of Ghana. She hopes to...
Friday, September 20, 2013
Dr. Judith Lasker discussed the value of short-term international volunteer programs in global health at the first event hosted by the Lehigh Bioethics Club Wednesday night [Sept. 18] in...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Professor Dmitri Bondarenko, an anthropologist who teaches at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will visit Lehigh University on Tuesday, September 24. He will...
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Misty Curreli, who earned a masters degree in sociology from Lehigh, is starting a new position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk Community College. She is one of ten of our MA...
Friday, July 12, 2013
A profile of Robert "Bob" Williamson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Lehigh University, has appeared on the Lehigh...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Heather Beth Johnson, associate professor of sociology, has been picked to serve on the American Sociological Association's section on Children and Youth. She received this honor via a nation-wide...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
What do Americans' short-term service trips abroad achieve, and what benefits do the communities targeted by these projects receive? Judy Lasker, Professor of Sociology, has spent much of the last...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
On Monday, May 20, 2013, Lehigh University held its 145th Commencement. Best wishes to our newly minted...
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director of Fairmount Community Development Corporation in Philadelphia, has received a 2013 "Rising Star" award from the Philadelphia Association of Community...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
A newly awarded Lehigh CORE grant will fund an eight-member interdisciplinary research team studying the impacts of hydraulic...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
David Small, Professor of Anthropology, has received two grants (one Faculty Research Grant and one Faculty Innovation grant) from Lehigh University to conduct...
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Bruce Whitehouse, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, traveled to France from April 8-13 at the invitation of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs. He met with...
Friday, May 10, 2013
Kelly Austin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has published a research article in the journal Population & Environment, entitled "...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Sociology M.A. students Krittiya Kantachote and Charlene Reidy have earned a "Level Two Certificate of Participation" from the Teacher Development Program for...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sophia Dent, a senior double-majoring in Biology and Anthropology, is one of two students to win the 2013...