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Professor Gustavo Morello, SJ is the Georgetown Visiting Jesuit Chair

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Professor Gustavo Morello, SJ who will be serving as our Georgetown Visiting Jesuit Chair this!…

August 27, 2025

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Corey Fields Will Serve as a 2025-2026 Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

We are excited to share that Corey Fields was selected as a 2025-2026 Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral!…

August 27, 2025

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Professor Brian McCabe has been promoted to full professor!

The Sociology Department is proud to share that Professor Brian McCabe has been promoted to full!…

August 27, 2025

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Professor Becky Yang Hsu Appears on New Books Network Podcast

April 7, 2025

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Professor Becky Yang Hsu Appears on The Optimist Project with Yara Shahidi

Yara Shahidi sits down with sociologist Dr. Becky Yang Hsu to explore how different cultures define happiness—and why the solo pursuit of it might be too limiting. Dr. Hsu…

March 11, 2025

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Professor Brian McCabe Featured in the Associated Press on the Dream of Homeownership

Brian McCabe, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, said he frequently tells his students that “there are few things that all Americans agree on, but one of them is…

February 10, 2025

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Prof. Kristin Perkins Discusses Study on Household Changes and Black Children’s Education Attainment in Russell Sage Foundation Journal

The issue offers a systematic examination of the variation in the consequences of disruption in early life. The interview has been edited for length and.…

November 21, 2024

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Professor Brian McCabe’s new report on the Seattle Democracy Voucher Program

With the program’s fourth election cycle in the rearview mirror, Georgetown sociologist Brian McCabe and Jennifer Heerwig, a sociologist at Stony Brook University, have…

October 7, 2024

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Professor Brian McCabe interviewed for NPR’s “All Things Considered” on the federal housing voucher program

Housing vouchers are the main way the U.S. helps very low-income renters. But they're hard to use, so the federal housing agency is looking into giving people cash.…

September 16, 2024

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In Memoriam: William “Bill” Daddio

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor William "Bill" Daddio.  Professor Daddio was a fixture in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown,…

July 23, 2024