For over 30 years, we have been distinguished by our emphasis on world-historical studies that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

As one of the most distinctive sociology departments in the world with faculty expertise on every world region – we have the largest such concentration of any department of our size. We seek to help make sense of the astonishingly diverse and deep-seated global processes and movements that transform our lives.

We have special research strengths in critical study of political economy: hierarchies of class, race and gender; social movements; world-systems analysis; and culture, power and knowledge. We offer our students, drawn from all over the globe, a friendly, supportive and vibrant teaching and research environment.