Welcome to the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. The department offers a BA in sociology or criminal justice. We have a long tradition of quality teaching and are proud of the fact that five of our faculty have earned the university's Excellence in Teaching Award.
Graduate students may earn an MA or a Ph.D. degree in sociology or criminology. Teaching assistantships, research assistantships and fellowships are available on a competitive basis. The department is home to the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies and affiliated with the Disaster Research Center.
You can find information on this site about our graduate and undergraduate programs and faculty, but if you have a specific question please contact us.
General inquiries can be directed to the department or you may contact individual faculty directly. For information about the Sociology Undergraduate and Graduate Programs e-mail sociology-program@udel.edu. For the Criminal Justice Undergraduate Program e-mail criminaljustice-program@udel.edu. |
2009 Fall Faculty
The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice is pleased to announce Barret Michalec as a new faculty member. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University with a major in Social Psychology. His dissertation title was Learning to Cure and Learning to Care: Empathy in the Preclinical Years of Medical Training. |
Minority Mentor/Lecture Series
The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice is pleased to announce our annual Minority Mentor/Lecture Series featuring Dr. Geoff Ward of the University of California at Irvine on Thursday, October 8... Read More |
Recent PhD graduate
Bethany Brown, a recent PhD graduate, was selected as one of two inaugural winners of The Samuel H. Prince Award for a Doctoral Dissertaion on a Disaster Topic in the Social and Behavioral Sciences... Read More |
ASC Award
Brian Starks has won an ASC Award: Brian has been selected as the winner fo the 2009 ASCs Division of People of Color and Crime (DPCC) Outstanding Student Award! He will be recognized at the DPCC luncheon at the annual ASC meeting in Philadelphia on Friday, November 6. |
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