Welcome to the Department of Sociology
Welcome to the web site of the Department of Sociology at UNL. Located in the rolling hills on the eastern edge of North America's Great Plains, Lincoln, Nebraska is the state capital as well as the home of the University of Nebraska. Our department, nearly as old as the university, celebrated its 100th anniversary in the 1999-2000 academic year. Throughout its history the department has been a leading center of sociology with three of its members having served as presidents of the American Sociological Association and five as presidents of the Midwest Sociological Society. Currently, our faculty includes the editors of two professional journals, Teaching Sociology and Current Perspectives in Social Theory The department of sociology offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. The department has 20 faculty members, about 45 graduate students, and around 200 undergraduate majors. Currently, all of our graduate students are funded through Graduate Teaching, Research Assistantships, or by Scholarships. As a moderately small department, we have chosen to capitalize on our strengths by emphasizing specializations and research in the areas of family, social inequality, and the sociology of health. Faculty and students in each of these areas, along with an active group interested in sociological theory, belong to study groups that meet biweekly to present ongoing research, discuss teaching issues, and listen to invited speakers. These areas also have links to interdisciplinary initiatives and programs, such as the Family Research and Policy Initiative, the Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative, the Institute for Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies . Additionally, through the department's Bureau of Sociological Research and our ties with the Gallup Research Center, the department has a strong program and offers a specialization in survey research and methodology. The department also offers a specialization in environmental sociology through its link with UNL's School for Natural Resource Sciences. The department emphasizes both quality research and teaching. A recent study of 119 graduate sociology departments ranks our department 15th in total number of articles in professional journals and 6th by number of articles per faculty member. More than half of the members of our faculty have won distinguished teaching awards and the department recently received the University-wide Award for Outstanding Departmental Teaching. We also are quite proud of the department's supportive and collegial environment and the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of our faculty and students. We are one of three Ph.D.-granting departments chosen to participate in the American Sociological Association's Minority Opportunities Through School Transformation (MOST) Program. We also participate in the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program, which provides on site experience and training to our graduate students who are interested in learning about possible careers in a variety of different kinds of academic settings. For a more complete picture of the sociology department, you are invited to take a tour of the Department.
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