Sociology and Anthropology

The Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies (PERCS) awarded Hannah Boone '22 and Emily Wilbourne '22 for their outstanding ethnographic research in a ceremony on April 21.

Photographer Tomás Ayuso and Amelia Frank-Vitale from Princeton University hosted a virtual event on contemporary migratory crisis from Central America and Mexico to the United States.

Kaylynn Hiller '22, Melissa Sturtz '22 and Logan Roberts ‘22 presented their research at the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) conference in Boston, on March 10 through March 13.

Seven Elon University faculty members published an article titled, "Undergraduate research in the global context: models and practices for high-quality mentoring" in the journal Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning.

Zito, an associate professor of sociology, discussed the complexity involved in trying to determine what contributes to the rise and fall of violence.

The Latin American Studies Research series is held each year at Elon to explore critical issues concerning the history, culture, communities, politics and art of Latin America from different disciplines and approaches.

An opinion column co-authored by Professor of Sociology Tom Arcaro and Azizul Hoque, a research associate at the Centre for Peace and Justice at Brac University in Bangladesh, has been published by Bangladeshi media outlets including the Daily Star of Dhaka.

In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Associate Professor of Sociology Raj Ghoshal writes that a vaccination mandate will be critical to turning the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article appeared in the Greensboro News & Record and the Burlington Times-News.

Professor of Sociology Tom Arcaro and Trevor Molin ’23 worked with faculty at Brac University in Bangladesh to deliver an online introductory sociology course to area students and Rohingya refugees

Rossen and colleagues at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City conducted important research on COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic.