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We are sorry to report that long-time faculty member of the Sociology Department, Professor Emeritus Ted Vaughan, passed away on Friday 9/22. The funeral will be in Wellington, TX, on Wednesday 9/27. He will be greatly missed. Our thoughts go out to his friends and family.
Sociology Conversations is a forum developed and hosted by the Department of Sociology at MU. This forum serves to bring undergraduate students together with faculty and graduate students to discuss current social problems in society and on campus through a sociological lens. Our department believes that facilitating a dialogue is important to understanding issues in our society and community.
Professor Joan Hermsen elected as the Missouri State Director on the Midwest Sociological Society Board of Directors.
Professor Jay Gubrium to receive honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University in Sweden.
Associate Professors Amit Prasad and Eileen Avery have been designated holders of the Jake O. & Irma B. Mathes Chair in Sociology for the Fall and Spring of 2016-17 academic year respectively.