Mary C. Waters talks about the progress made by modern-day immigrants in learning English and integrating into U.S. society with Ali Noorani on "Only in America".... Read more about Rhetoric vs Research: The Success of Immigrant Integration

Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology, has been named a Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar by the Russell Sage Foundation.... Read more about Mary Waters named Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar

Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, at the age of 95.  Professor Glazer was an influential sociologist, public intellectual, and dear colleague in our Department, and he will be deeply missed.  See the remembrance in the New York Times: Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95, andThe Harvard Crimson article,... Read more about Remembering Nathan Glazer