My main topics of interest include comparative political sociology/social movements, immigration and modern nation-state in the Middle East, sociology of Iranian pop arts and literature, and ...

In June 2015, a white supremacist opened fire inside the historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine black congregants, including the minister. The massacre ...

Leslie King’s research and teaching interests include population studies, environmental sociology, social movements and corporate power. Much of her research has focused on how ideologies of ...

The Department of Sociology offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Sociology and participates in a graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in Social Psychology.