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Our StudentsThe NC State doctoral program in sociology currently has about 65 students enrolled, all but a few of them (mostly students who have finished all coursework and are writing their dissertations) enrolled full-time. About two-thirds of our students have already earned master's degrees. Almost all of our full-time students are supported on teaching assistantships or research assistantships. You can see the Sociology Graduate Student Association student bios here. Our students are extremely productive. In recent years they have published in all of the major sociological journals including American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Criminology, Gender and Society, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Quarterly, and Sociological Spectrum among many others. Current NC State students have eighteen articles or book chapters that have already appeared in 2007 or are in press. Click here for a list of recent publications by NC State graduate students in sociology. Our students have presented papers at most major sociological meetings including the American Sociological Association, the Southern Sociological Society, the Association of Black Sociologists, the American Society of Criminology, the Rural Sociological Society, the Population Association of America, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In just the last four years NC State graduate students presented 47 papers at the Southern Sociological Society meetings! Click here for a list of recent conference presentations by NC State graduate students in sociology. You will notice that much of this research is coauthored with NC State faculty and some of it is coauthored with other NC State students. In the last eight years, 34 different students have published over forty peer-reviewed papers with 20 different NC State faculty members. In fact, the 2008 volume of Annual Review of Sociology will have three chapters by recent NC State graduates coauthoring with their faculty mentors. This pattern of coauthorship is indicative of the collegial atmosphere we have nurtured and encouraged. Our graduate students have been well recognized for the excellence of their teaching. Since 1999, one student received the CHASS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, three have won the CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, and seven have been recognized by the University Graduate Student Association with its campus-wide Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. They also win many awards for their research. Our students have won fellowships, thesis awards, travel grants, memberships into various scholarly and honorary societies, and other honors too numerous to list here. Since 1921 the program has awarded nearly five hundred graduate degrees (click here for a complete list). We have placed our graduates all over the country and, indeed, the world. Our graduates find good jobs, often excellent jobs, for which they report that they were well prepared by their work with us. They take positions in university positions that combine teaching and research, in college positions that emphasize teaching, and in applied research positions in government agencies, non-profit organizations, and some for-profit firms. The links below will give you the details to fill in this picture. We are very proud of our graduates.
NC State Graduate Program in Sociology 2007 Cohort
Front row (from left): Nicholas Solebello, Sara Brown, Mindy Vulpis, Alecia Anderson. Back row: Rena Cornell, Kelly Fawcett, Melissa Williams, Brandi Leach, Adam Driscoll, Chris Dick.NC State Graduate Program in Sociology 2006 Cohort |
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