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Professor Yu Luo
Anthropologist Yu Luo Joins Department

Professor Yu Luo is a cultural anthropologist is joining SoAn and Asian Studies as the Barnett Chair in China Studies this  fall. Watch her recent talk in which she discusses her background and the challenges of being a semi-native ethnographer.

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Confronting Inequality
Confronting Inequality

The 2021-22 Department of Sociology & Anthropology discussion series will draw on disciplinary perspectives to interrogate different vectors of inequality at home and around the world. Discussions will be led by department faculty members working with SoAn majors and minors to build conversation within and beyond the SoAn Department. All are welcome.

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Sociology & Anthropology Student Association

Learn more about the Sociology & Anthropology Student Association (SASA), how to join, and whom to contact for 2021-22 information.

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2022 Life After Graduation Event Video
2022 Life After Graduation Event Video

Thinking about plans for after college, and how studying sociology and anthropology can inform different career trajectories? Watch our panel of Sociology and Anthropology department alumni speak to their diverse professional pursuits and the role that SoAn training played in paving their pathways into fields as diverse as marketing communications, social work, patient advocacy, and much more. From March 2, 2022.

SoAn Alumni Panelists:

  • Rodger Caudill ’16, Acting TFT Communications Lead at Riot Games
  • Lizzy Chao ’17, Clinical Social Worker at Veterans Affairs
  • Tristan Eddy ’09, Program Director at Justice for Girls Coalition
  • Andrea Little ’19, Patients’ Rights Advocate at Mental Health Association of Alameda County
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Anthropology and sociology help us understand cultural patterns, social processes, and human behavior. Anthropology challenges us to engage cultural difference and reflect on human variation across the globe, learning to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Sociology challenges us to connect individual and personal concerns to broader, collective issues by understanding complex norms and varied social structures. Join us in the critical study of human culture and society and build a greater understanding of the beliefs, constructs, and worldviews that shape diverse cultures and institutions.
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Courses in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology examine a wide variety of fields and topics, including inequality, education, development, health and healthcare, media and technology, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, kinship and families, deviance, labor and work, and urban phenomena. A global approach allows students to investigate these topics not only in the U.S. but also in Europe, East, Southeast, and South Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. 
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Our faculty take an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to studying the social world, emphasizing a range of theoretical perspectives and a toolkit of qualitative and quantitative methods that allow students to critically explore their own interests.
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Students pursuing a degree in SoAn receive in-depth, experiential, and immersive exposure to many facets of human culture and society, while developing an array of social research skills that contribute to success in a broad range of careers.
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Traveling Between Cultures

Born in a multi-ethnic region of China, Yu Luo, Puget Sound’s Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair in Contemporary China Studies and...
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Xenophobia in the time of COVID-19

Soon after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the U.S., Allie Highsmith ’22 started hearing people call it the “th...
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Beyond Wanderlust

Gareth Barkin has dedicated his life to travel. But he doesn’t celebrate just checking the countries he’s visited off on a m...

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