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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...
A complete list of Sociology & Anthropology courses for the ...
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...
The Department of Sociology & Anthropology (https://socanthro.cas.lehigh.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as...
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...
Professor Danielle Lindemann's latest book, ...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
See Associate Professor Sirry Alang's excellent interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 1, 2020): "...
See the latest issue of SOAN Intersections for features on...
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, effective Fall 2020. Potential...
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...
The Department of Sociology &...
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...
Data from Collegefactual.com show that Lehigh's anthropology grads are among the best-paid in Pennsylvania. Consult the data at...
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY. The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant...
Fourteen students and three faculty from the Department of Sociology & Anthropology attended a performance of the play "Human Rites" by the...
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...
Renowned sociologist Michael Kimmel, who first studied sociology under our own Dr. Jim McIntosh during the 1960s, has published a new...
The Department of Sociology &...
At the ceremony for Founder's Day 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...
From The Brown and White:
The room is divided — five students...
On November 16, 2016, the eminent sociologist Dr. Saskia Sassen delivered the Robert C. Williamson Lecture at Lehigh University. Her presentation was...
If you are considering Lehigh's Masters in Sociology program, we encourage you to attend the upcoming...
Research conducted by Margaret Hagerman (B.A. '04, M.A. '06), now an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at...
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...
Caroline Kusi, who earned her BA in Sociology from Lehigh in 2011, has accepted a new position--in Rwanda!
Caroline reports...
Students in Professor Judy Lasker's seminar "The Jewish Identity and...
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,...
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...
On Saturday, November 14 Lehigh's College of Arts & Sciences will hold a Graduate Open House. We invite anyone considering our...
On October 3, 2015, Lehigh University President John Simon officially dedicated the newly renovated Williams Hall as part of Lehigh's 150th...
From the university website: The (Centennial) Class of 1966 broke with tradition by presenting Lehigh University with an academic scepter,...
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...
Bravo to our graduate students who won summer research grants! Ginger Kuulei Handley and...
Dr. David Casagrande, Associate Professor of Anthropology, has received the 2015 Robert C. and Virginia L. Williamson Award for...
Dr. Heather Beth Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been named the recipient of the 2015...
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Kelly Austin, who has been named to the prestigious Frank Hook Assistant...
Mike DeCrosta (BA Sociology, 2011) has been...
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...
Two students in the M.A. sociology program have been awarded prestigious Strohl Graduate Summer Research Fellowships.
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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...
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...
Three Masters of Sociology students and one undergraduate Sociology student will be presenting their papers at the...
Heather Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has been recognized by Lehigh's...
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...
Sunny Huang, a junior Sociology major and Eckardt Scholar, has published...
Location: Maginnes Hall, Room 113
Time: 4:10 pm
Nessette Falu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-Cultural...
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...
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...
On Tuesday, October 14 at 8 p.m., renowned sociologist Dr. Elijah Anderson will present a public lecture entitled "Understanding...
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,...
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...
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...
Alessandra Bazo Vienrich, who received her M.A. in sociology from our department in May, has been profiled by the Lehigh...
Dr. Nikki Tannenbaum, Chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, has been named "Queen of the...
Dr. Judith Lasker, our N.E.H. Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has been honored by Harvard University's Graduate School...
Lehigh's 146th Commencement was held on Monday, May 19, 2014. Congratulations to our newly minted MAs and BAs.
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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...
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...
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...
On Monday, April 28, students from our department presented original research from their thesis projects.
BA Students
...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,...
Archaeologist Dr David Small, Professor of Anthropology, is the recipient of a Core Fulbright Scholar award to teach and conduct...
Dr Cati Coe, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University-Camden, will give a public talk on Tuesday, March 25 entitled "'Will...
Joanne Hoffman, who earned bachelors degrees in anthropology and chemical engineering from Lehigh (as part of the university's...
One faculty member and three graduate students of the department will present their research at the Eastern Sociological...
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...
Kelly Austin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has co-authored an article in the journal Sociological Inquiry...
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...
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...
From the Fall 2013 issue of Acumen, the magazine of Lehigh University's College of Arts & Sciences (p. 9):
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A profile of Robert "Bob" Williamson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Lehigh University, has appeared on the Lehigh...
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...
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...
On Monday, May 20, 2013, Lehigh University held its 145th Commencement. Best wishes to our newly minted...
Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director of Fairmount Community Development Corporation in Philadelphia, has received a 2013 "Rising Star" award from the Philadelphia Association of Community...
A newly awarded Lehigh CORE grant will fund an eight-member interdisciplinary research team studying the impacts of hydraulic...
David Small, Professor of Anthropology, has received two grants (one Faculty Research Grant and one Faculty Innovation grant) from Lehigh University to conduct...
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...
Kelly Austin, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has published a research article in the journal Population & Environment, entitled "...
Sociology M.A. students Krittiya Kantachote and Charlene Reidy have earned a "Level Two Certificate of Participation" from the Teacher Development Program for...
Sophia Dent, a senior double-majoring in Biology and Anthropology, is one of two students to win the 2013...