Sociology and Anthropology

The Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies this fall launched a "Faces of Welfare" initiative in Alamance County.

An Elon University professor and an alumnus visited Paris to help a Turkish city make its case for being awarded the bid to host the expo.

Students who undertook research with Elon faculty mentors over the summer formally presented their work in a new program on Sept. 14.

Find out more about some of the interesting courses faculty are teaching at Elon.

Why have a handful of soldiers created embarrassment for the United States in recent months? Professor Tom Arcaro offers an explanation.

Professors and an Elon Law student on March 28 share with their audience perspectives on deadly shootings in Florida, France and Afghanistan.

Aunchalee Palmquist, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is the lead author on a paper that will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (DOI 10.1007/S10903-011-9522-1, 11 Sept, epub ahead of print) .

Darris Means '05, a sociology and political science graduate, connects theory with practice as he studies complexities of self-identity in college students, from race to class to sexual orientation.