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Anthropology’s Kathryn Takabvirwa served as cultural consultant for the Steppenwolf production of Familiar
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When Danya Taymor was hired to direct Steppenwolf’s new comedy, Familiar by Danai Gurira, she knew that she had to get the cultural elements exactly r...
Rebecca Sandefur, PhD’01, named MacArthur Fellow
announcements sociology alumni
More than two decades ago, Rebecca Sandefur stepped onto the UChicago campus for the first time as a graduate student, drawn by what she saw as a uniq...
Sociology’s René Flores examines the cultural stereotypes that drive perceptions of illegal status
announcements faculty sociology
Who are the “illegals”? Heated rhetoric on “illegal” immigrants has dominated the media for the past few years, with politicians and pundits blamin...
Alumni Profile: Peter McMahan, PhD’17 (Sociology)
Author: Tina Cormier From Conversations to Communities: Aggregation of Latent Social Structures Recent advances in computing, coupled with unp...
Graduate Student Profile: CIR alum Alya Adamany Woods, MA’02, on working towards economic and tech leadership
Author: Anjali Anand Alya Adamany Woods MA ‘02 didn’t expect to become a Chicago “lifer” after earning her degree in international relations. Now...