Ana Wahl won the 2010 WFU-WSSU Martin Luther King Building the Dream Award
Robin Simon recently received a National Science Foundation grant (with Jennifer Glass) to examine the impact of children on parents’ well-being across 21 countries.
Leek Deng received, with Hannah Rothman, the 2010 American Sociological Association Departmental Prize for Outstanding Student.
Earl Smith is Professor of Sociology and Rubin Distinguished Professor and Director of American Ethnic Studies. Read More
Ken Bechtel is Associate Professor of Sociology.
R. Saylor Breckenridge is Associate Professor of Sociology. Read More
Catherine Harnois is Assistant Professor of Sociology. Read More
Catherine T. Harris is Professor of Sociology. Read More
Rebecca Matteo is Lecturer in Sociology. Read More
Robin Simon is Professor of Sociology. Read More
Joesph Soares is Associate Professor of Sociology. Read More
Eleanor Stoller is Research Professor of Sociology. Read More
Ian Taplin is Professor of Sociology and International Studies. Read More
Ana-Maria Wahl is Associate Professor of Sociology. Read More
Welcome
Welcome to the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University. We aspire to be an intellectual community whose faculty are nationally-recognized for their scholarship, who achieve excellence in teaching inside and outside the classroom, and who are dedicated to serving both the campus and wider communities. In short, we strive to uphold Wake Forest's Teacher-Scholar Ideal.
Students can graduate with a major or minor in sociology, and are afforded numerous opportunities for research outside the classroom, especially through participation in our Honors Program.
We are very proud of the various accomplishments of our current and former students, and we appreciate your taking the time to visit us on-line and learn more about sociology.
Department News and Announcements
- Congratulations to Ian Taplin for being elected President of the North Carolina Sociological Association.
- Congratulations to our Outstanding Student Award winners for the Class of 2011.
- Examine our course schedule and read our course descriptions for Fall 2011.
- We welcome two new faculty members beginning in the fall of 2011: Hana Brown will join us from the University of California at Berkeley and Steven Gunkel will join us from Greensboro College.