Sociology

Taking On The Kentucky "Uglies"

Grant to study African American female drug use and the effects of the criminal justice system - Photo by Tim Collins

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Patrick H. Mooney Department Chair

Sociology professor Carrie Oser has been awarded a five year $2.6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for her research project titled “African American Female Drug Users: HIV, Health Disparities, and Criminality"
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SociologyNews & Events

Rebecca Som Castellano Awarded the Rural Sociology Master's Thesis and Dissertation Research Award

Sociology graduate student will receive over $3,000 to help with thesis research.

Registrar Announces Paperless Schedule of Classes Starting Spring 2009

The decision to not print a traditional schedule book will bring both environmental and economic benefits to the university.

Meet A&S Graduate Students

Kiyo Sakamoto has landed a grant for more than $4,500 from the Matsushita International Foundation for his dissertation research. ... more

Kiyo Sakamoto Ph.D. Student

The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

This well-written, convincing historical examination of persistently poor rural communities continues the ground-breaking work done by James Brown in his Beech Creek studies. by Dwight (with Kathleen Blee) Billings»

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