The Robert Park Lectureships are competitive awards for students proposing to teach advanced undergraduate courses in their areas of specialty. Below is a list of courses taught by recent winners.
Course |
Instructor |
Quarter |
Year |
Sociology of Work-Life | Peter Fugiel | Spring | 2021 |
Introduction to the Sociology of Culture | Alessandra Lembo | Spring | 2021 |
Medical Sociology | Wan-Zi Lu | Winter | 2021 |
Political Culture: Power, People, and the Press in Contemporary Societies | Nicholas Judd | Spring | 2020 |
Global Future of Work | Wen Xie | Winter | 2020 |
A Mixed-Methods Introduction to Criminal Justice in Chicago | Kyla Bourne | Fall | 2019 |
Sociology of Medicine | Alexandra Brewer | Spring | 2019 |
Sociology of Higher Education | Melissa Osborne | Winter | 2019 |
The Social Life of the Law | Kathryn Hendricks | Fall | 2018 |
Sociological Perspectives on Gender, Work, and Family | Jaclyn Wong | Spring | 2018 |
Gentrification: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Jeffrey Parker | Winter | 2018 |
Social Networks and Social Capital | James Murphy | Winter | 2018 |
Cultural Economy | Whitney Johnson | Spring | 2017 |
Placemaking | Jessica Feldman | Winter | 2017 |
Sociology of the Law | Robert Owens | Fall | 2016 |
Computing and Society | Michael Castelle | Spring | 2016 |
Opposing the State | Benjamin Merriman | Winter | 2016 |
Colleges and Universities in American Society | Nidia Banuelos | Fall | 2015 |
Contentious Collective Action |
Yang Zhang |
Winter |
2015 |
American Families: Inequality and Change |
Samuel Perry |
Autumn |
2014 |
Education and the Inheritance of Social Inequality |
Marshall Jean |
Spring |
2014 |
The Cultural Sociology of Animals |
Elizabeth Emelene Jefferis |
Spring |
2014 |
Intimate Relationship over the Life Course |
Muh-Chung Lin |
Autumn |
2013 |
Collective Violence and Social Orders |
Geng Tian |
Spring |
2013 |
Reproduction and Reproductive Rights |
Alicia VandeVusse |
Spring |
2013 |
Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Beyond |
Monica Lee |
Winter |
2013 |
Social Interaction and Emotion |
Michael Bare |
Spring |
2012 |
Sociology of Everyday Life: Interaction, Self, and Knowledge |
Daniel Huebner |
Winter |
2012 |
Sociological Understandings of Violence |
Paola Castano |
Spring |
2011 |
International Migration |
Maria Medvedeva |
Winter |
2011 |
Sociology of Space |
Xiaoi Tian |
Winter |
2010 |
Organizational Analysis of Schools and School Reform |
Linda C. Lee |
Spring |
2010 |
Markets, Models, and Risk |
Erica Colsor |
Winter |
2010 |
Professions in Modern Society |
Sida Liu |
Winter |
2009 |
Empire and Nation |
Liping Wang |
Fall |
2009 |
The Microsociology of Everyday Life |
Jolyon Ticer-Wurr |
Fall |
2008 |
Social/Econ Transformation in Classic Community Studies |
Jan Pacewicz |
Fall |
2008 |
HIV: Sociological Perspectives |
Sanyu Mojola |
Spring |
2008 |
Immigration and Its Discontents |
Melissa Howe |
Spring |
2008 |
The Hospital as a Small Society |
Daniel Menchik |
Spring |
2008 |
Work and Play |
Stefan Bargheer |
Fall |
2007 |
Gender and Sport in Society |
Jennifer Hanis |
Spring |
2007 |
Punishment and Inequality |
John Eason |
Winter |
2007 |
Sociology of Music |
Nicholas Dempsey |
Winter |
2007 |
The Social Construction of the Self |
Michal Pagis |
Fall |
2006 |
Technology and Society |
Elena Obukhova |
Spring |
2006 |
Theorizing the Global Ghetto |
Rami Nashashibi |
Winter |
2006 |
Relational Sociology |
Shira Offer |
Winter |
2006 |
Adolescent Social Contexts |
Thomas Gannon |
Fall |
2005 |
Medical Sociology |
Lei Jin |
Spring |
2005 |
Race, Politics, Neighborhood Revitalization |
Derek Hyra |
Spring |
2005 |
Gender/Sexuality in Developing World |
Rachel Rinaldo |
Spring |
2005 |
Systemic School Reform/Organizational Change |
Sara Hallman |
Fall |
2004 |
Economic Sociology |
Dali Ma |
Spring |
2004 |
Technology/Ideology of Sexual Reproduction |
Elizabeth Campbell |
Spring |
2004 |
Punishment and Modern Society |
Andrea Leverentz |
Fall |
2003 |
Social Determinants of Health/Illness |
Ming Wen |
Spring |
2003 |
Racial Segregation/Urban Neighborhoods |
Jeffrey Timberlake |
Spring |
2003 |
Sociology of Science |
Fabio Rojas |
Winter |
2003 |
Emotion and Social Life |
Chi-Young Koh |
Fall |
2002 |
Gender and Work in the Family |
Jenna Mahay |
Spring |
2002 |
The Suburbs in American Society |
Kim Babon |
Winter |
2002 |
The Sociology of Markets |
Anthony Paik |
Fall |
2001 |