Emily Parker
Ph.D. Candidate
Education
B.A. Sociology, American University, 2012
M.A. Policy Analysis and Management, 2018
Cornell’s Department of Sociology explores human social organization, institutions and groups. The department is known for the cutting-edge research of its faculty and for its exceptionally strong graduate and undergraduate training programs. It has a long-standing tradition of engaging and valuing theoretically driven empirical research. This approach to sociology uses sophisticated theoretical reasoning and rigorous methodological tools, many of which are developed by Cornell faculty, to answer fundamental questions about the social world, how it is organized and how it is changing. The department’s focus on basic science is complemented by a deep commitment to informing public and educational policy, particularly on issues related to gender and racial inequality, income inequality, poverty, drug use, economic development, school funding, organizational practices and race and ethnicity.
The sociology department also has close ties with the many other research centers on campus. Interdisciplinary research touches on subjects such as inequality, economics, social sciences, nonlinear systems, politics and social dynamics.
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Joseph F. Sullivan
Senior Lecturer
Leila Wilmers
Postdoctoral Associate
Publications
Wilmers, L., ‘‘Is it really diversity when you can’t study your native language in school?’: Negotiating the discourse of a multi-ethnic Russian people from below’, Europe-Asia Studies (forthcoming)
Wilmers, L (2023) ‘Angharad Closs Stephens (2022) National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political. London: Bloomsbury Academic’, Journal of Language and Politics, https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23073.wil
Wilmers, L. (2022) ‘How we engage the principles of nationalism in making sense of uncertainty and disruptive social change’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 45:14, pp 2705-2725
Wilmers, L. (2022) ‘The local dynamics of nation building: Identity politics and constructions of the Russian nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg’, Nationalities Papers, 51:2, pp258-279
Wilmers, L. and Chernobrov, D. (2020) ‘Growing up with a long-awaited nation-state: Personal struggles with the homeland among young diasporic Armenians’, Ethnicities 20:3, pp 520-543
Chernobrov, D. and Wilmers, L. (2020) ‘Diaspora identity and a new generation: Armenian diaspora youth on the genocide and the Karabakh war’, Nationalities Papers 48:5, pp 915 - 930
Antonsich, M., Sotiropoulou, P., Wilmers, L., Zhaxi, C., Hyde, S. (2019) ‘"Our Nation’s Future": Youth visions of a post-Brexit Britain’ in Youth and the Politics of the Present: Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence, eds: Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini, Routledge
Courses – Spring 2023
SOC3170, GOVT3174: Nationalism and Identity
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Chiara Galli
Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow
Landon Schnabel
Robert and Ann Rosenthal Assistant Professor
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Barum Park
Assistant Professor
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Chukwudumebi (Joshua) Obi
Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity Class of 2023
Juhwan Seo
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Education
Cornell University, MA
Harvard University, BA
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Mario D. Molina
Ph.D. Candidate
Education
BA in Education (2008) and Philosophy (2009) from Universidad de los Andes (Santiago, Chile).
MA in Sociology (2012) from Universidad Catolica de Chile.
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Thomas R. Davidson
Ph.D. Candidate
Education
MA in Sociology, Cornell University, 2017.
MSc in Political Sociology, Distinction, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013.
BA Honours in American Studies, First Class, University of East Anglia, 2011.