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The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University offers undergraduate and graduate programs focused on the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior from a global perspective.

09/04/2026

Please join us in welcoming our newest PRODiG+ Fellow! 🎉

Dr. Haisu Huang's research advances environmental justice scholarship by examining how climate hazards, environmental policies, and energy transitions unevenly distribute risks and resources—and how communities understand, challenge, and navigate these inequalities in everyday life.

Using qualitative and ethnographic methods, their work connects large-scale transformations such as disaster, deindustrialization, and decarbonization to lived experiences of housing insecurity, health risk, and belonging.

At the heart of their research are critical questions: Who is protected? Who is exposed? And who gets a say when environments are transformed?

We’re thrilled to welcome a scholar whose work not only advances sociological understanding of environmental inequality, but also seeks to support more equitable responses to climate disruption and inspire students to imagine and build more just futures. 🌎✨

Welcome to Stony Brook Dr. Huang! 🌊🐺❤️

09/01/2026

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Alex Diamond, our newest Assistant Professor! 🎉

As an ethnographer, photographer, and documentary filmmaker, Alex’s research explores the connections between drugs, state policy, violence, and economic transformation, centering the everyday experiences of people navigating these forces.

Alex’s first book, Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia’s Peace Laboratory, examines a landmark peace process from the perspective of farmers working to transform their region from violence to peace, guerrilla rule to state authority, and coca cultivation to legal agriculture.

Alex is currently writing High Stakes: Cannabis, Crime, Capitalism, and Politics, which tells the stories of people who grow, sell, and advocate for cannabis while examining how legalization has reshaped both legal and illegal cannabis economies.

We’re excited to welcome a scholar whose interdisciplinary work brings together ethnography, visual storytelling, politics, and sociology to illuminate how communities experience and respond to major social and economic transformations.

Welcome to Stony Brook, Dr. Diamond! 🌊🐺❤️

08/27/2026

Please join us in congratulating **Gaëlle Aminata** on receiving a **2027 Chow Green Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention** from **Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)!** 🎉👏

Gaëlle will be honored at the SWS meeting in February, celebrating this incredible recognition of her outstanding dissertation research. 💙

Link in Bio to learn more about Gaëlle and see the highlights of her award-winning work!

Congratulations, Gaëlle! We are so proud of you! 🎓✨

08/24/2026

📚✨ Welcome back, Seawolves! ✨📚

The first day of classes is here, and we’re ready for a new semester of learning, discovery, and connection! Whether you’re stepping onto campus for the first time or returning for another year, we’re excited to have you here. 🐺💙

Here’s to new classes, new connections, new ideas, and a semester full of possibilities. Be sure to check out our SB Engaged Page for upcoming events!!

08/21/2026

From lecture halls to research labs, our department is here to support our students, faculty, and community. 🎓🍎✏️🏫

Meet our newly appointed Chair, Professor Fallon, and the leadership behind the department! We’re excited to introduce the people who help shape our department, support our students, and move our mission forward.

We are also grateful to Associate Professor Dr. Jen Heerwig for her dedicated service to the Sociology Department over the past year as Interim Chair. Thank you, Dr. Heerwig, for your leadership and commitment to our department! 💙

08/19/2026

🎉 Congratulations, Graduate Student Hannah Judson! 🎉

We’re thrilled to celebrate Hannah Judson, who was selected to participate in the highly competitive Junior Theorists Symposium at NYU earlier in August!

Hannah will present their ongoing research on the sociology of reparations, moral claims-making, and quantification; an exciting project that brings important questions about justice, measurement, and social meaning into conversation.

Join us in celebrating Hannah and this fantastic recognition of their scholarship! 👏📚

Congratulations, Hannah! We’re so proud to see your work recognized on this stage!

08/13/2026

The way we do social science research is changing....rapidly. ⚡🤖

In just a few months, coding agents have advanced from emerging tools to powerful research partners, raising important questions about how we analyze data, build knowledge, and approach our work.

Dr. Yongjun (Josh) Zhang's article takes a closer look at the possibilities and challenges of AI-driven research.

🔗 in bio

08/10/2026

🎉 Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) is back at Stony Brook! 🎉

After several years on hiatus, we proudly inducted a new class of members last academic year—and we're excited to continue growing our chapter!

To maintain our recognized student organization status, we're looking for enthusiastic students to serve on the AKD Executive Board. This is a great opportunity to build leadership skills, connect with fellow sociology students, and help shape the future of our chapter.

Interested? Apply using the link in our bio!

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08/06/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Josh Zhang on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!

This well-deserved milestone recognizes Josh's outstanding contributions as a scholar, mentor, and colleague. His research on spatial segregation, organizations, political sociology, and computational methods has made a significant impact on both our department and the broader field of sociology.

Please join us in congratulating Josh on this exciting achievement! 🎉

08/03/2026

Please join us in congratulating Nick Wilson, Associate Professor of Sociology, History affiliate faculty member, and co-convener of the Initiative for the Historical Social Sciences, on receiving the Barrington Moore Book Award from the American Sociological Association!

The award recognizes the best book in comparative and historical sociology published over the past two years, as selected by the ASA's Historical and Comparative Section. Nick was honored for his edited volume, After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology (Columbia University Press).

This prestigious recognition highlights the impact of interdisciplinary scholarship and innovative approaches to historical sociology.

Congratulations, Professor Nick, on this outstanding achievement! 👏📚

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Stony Brook University, S401 Social & Behavioral Sciences
Stony Brook, NY
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Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm

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https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/

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