• The Sociology Department's graduate program offers a transdisciplinary learning environment where students may pursue critical studies of labor, migration and capitalism, carceral and surveillance, and power and the politics of resistance.  
  • Faculty is engage critically with how scholars do ethnography and historical research across the disciplines.
  • Program invites doctoral students to take history seriously in formulating the problems and interpretations of the present.
  • It encourages students to contemplate transnational and world-historical processes within which apparently local and national problems arise