Due to the anticipated significant winter storm expected for the Akron area overnight and into tomorrow, all University of Akron campuses will be closed on Friday, Jan. 19.
We have four areas of concentration in our department: medical sociology and mental health, social inequalities, social psychology, and criminology and deviance. Read more about our departmental areas of research.
Our faculty are engaged in many different kinds of research, from studying health during the transition to adulthood, to drug and substance abuse among college students, to histories of pioneer women. You can read more in our faculty research profiles.