News in the Department of Sociology

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04/18/2023
Creating Legacies: Black & Transmasculine in Ohio

As a class project for Rethinking Race, sociology students led a conversation with award-winning community organizer and artist LuSter P. Singleton.

04/30/2021
Sociology department honors student achievement

The Department of Sociology continued its long tradition of recognizing student achievement and excellence.

04/26/2021
University of Akron researchers seek confidential input from Akron residents on policing

Akron residents can confidentially share their ideas on how to improve public safety and policing in the city through a series of virtual focus groups led by UA. (Free Beacon Journal login required)

04/06/2021
UA Faculty Shifts to Online Education in Innovative Ways due to COVID-19

UA Faculty Shifts to Online Education in Innovative Ways due to COVID-19. Four UA professors discuss adjustments and achievements in the classroom.

03/25/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Joann Xi for her latest publication

Congratulations to Dr. Joann Xi for her latest publication!

03/02/2021
From law enforcement to law school, and other challenges
The remarkable journey of Darrell Claytor, a lieutenant in the University of Akron Police Department who will soon graduate with a law degree.
02/17/2021
Professor gives insight about the benefits and challenges ethnic diversity brings in U.S. cities

The U.S. today is a melting pot of cultures, and if the trend continues, no single ethnic group will constitute the majority in America for the first time by 2045. Professor Robert Peralta gives insight about both the benefits and challenges that ethnic diversity brings.

12/28/2020
Lost to COVID-19: University of Akron professor hosted international students at his house every Thanksgiving

Baffour Takyi knew what it was like to be far from home. The University of Akron professor was from Ghana, and still had deep roots in the African nation. So every Thanksgiving, he and his wife invited Akron's international students to their house for a meal. 

11/23/2020
In memoriam: Dr. Baffour K. Takyi

Dr. Baffour K. Takyi, a professor of sociology, passed away Nov. 18, 2020. He was 64.

10/20/2020
Exonerated Ohio men discuss race and wrongful convictions

Dr. Daniela Jauk, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, moderated a panel discussion, with four wrongfully accused and then exonerated men with the help of the Ohio Innocence Project, focused on how race figures into wrongful conviction.

10/17/2020
Wrongfully convicting

Assistant Professor Dani Jauk, during panel discussion that coincided with Wrongful Conviction Day, presented information about the disproportionate effects of wrongful convictions. 

09/21/2020
UA student organizations hosting a conversation about capital punishment and wrongful conviction
The free virtual event is being hosted by UA's student chapter of the Ohio Innocence Project and its Sociology Club.
06/11/2020
Social exclusion could lead to increase in alcohol use disorder in LGBTQ
A study by UA sociologists examined the largest sample of sexual minority data available to date.
03/04/2020
Assessing the scope of witnessed violence in prisons
New study is one of few to focus on documenting observed violence in state prisons.
11/25/2019
UA students find way to fight opioid crisis
For sophomores Maggie Weber and Hailey Vieltorf, a painful loss was the motivation to work on anti-drug awareness and education programs targeting young people.