Welcome to the USC Department of Sociology. We are proud of our department's history, some of which you can explore on this Web site. And we are excited about the department's recent growth and our current directions. We now have 18 full-time faculty, six of whom joined us over the past two years. USC boasts some of the nation's leading sociologists in the study of families, culture, religion, immigration, race/ethnicity, and gender. Our strengths in these fields are bolstered by our vibrant research and teaching connections with interdisciplinary centers on campus: The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and the Gender Studies Program and Center for Feminist Research. Moreover, Sociology faculty members are at the center of a group of USC scholars who are in the early stages of building a Population Research Center.

Our graduate program offers a range of methodological approaches. Indeed, many of our current students are finding USC to be a supportive environment within which to develop multi-method research projects. Many graduate students collaborate in research projects with faculty mentors, often resulting in co-authored papers. You can learn more about our graduate program, our current graduate students, and alums of our program on this Web site.

We invite you to explore our Web site, and to contact us with any questions that you might have.

Tim Biblarz, Chair