Our essential mission is to prepare students to analyze, transform, and overcome conditions of oppression, exploitation and injustice.
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Lewis Downing Hall, Building 26
2300 6th Street NW | Suite 1124
Washington, DC 20059
Phone: 202-806-6853
The University continues to closely monitor the spread of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, as additional cases are confirmed in the United States and other countries. The University continues to formulate and adjust its plans as needed.
We live in an age of social conflict fueled by poverty, racism and other forms of inequality, but also by our knowledge that a better world is possible and our desires to make it so.
Social theory and research provide us with powerful tools for critically analyzing, transforming, and overcoming conditions of oppression, exploitation and injustice.
Our graduate and undergraduate programs give students training in the use of these tools and that prepare them for careers and lives in service to their communities and struggles for a better world.
We offer undergraduate programs in Sociology and Criminology, and a graduate program in Sociology.
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Dr. Eleanor King was awarded an NSF grant for more than $250,000 for a collaborative project entitled “Collaborative Research: Exploration of Maya Marketplaces in the Three Rivers Region of Northwest Belize.” The project is a collaboration between university scholars, specialized consultants, and K-12 educators in Belize.
Dr. Bahiyyah Muhammad is a Co-PI on two new external grant awards. She is the co-PI on the $5M Mellon Foundation project entitled "The Just Futures Award," which provides funds to support the Social Justice Consortium and the Social Justice Certificate Program. Dr. Muhammad is also the co-PI on the Knight Foundation award for the "Mis-information and Dis-information and the Voting Patterns of Black Residents in DC" project.
Dr. Michelle Dovil is the PI for the "Full STEAM Ahead: Powering Connections Among Different Generations of Geoscientists" project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $295,885. The research project seeks to expand NSF's efforts in bringing diversity and inclusion in the government, industry, and academic community for underrepresented individuals within the geoscience fields through mentorship and professional development. Moreover, the project includes a social science component in order to drive the next generation of leaders full STEAM ahead.
The Department will host a virtual celebration of his life on October 30, 2020 at 4 pm. Use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88900786674?pwd=M2E4YW1iSkFlSVJaOVVDTzlOSURwZz09 to join the service Meeting ID: 889 0078 6674 Passcode: s5Nj7P.
Dr. Ralph Gomes was featured in a recent article in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-lifetime-studying-the-black-experience--and-collecting-art-related-to-it/2020/09/22/d280b5f2-fce8-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
