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About Us

Peter Rosenblatt

Welcome to Loyola University Chicago’s Department of Sociology. From our faculty, to our graduate students, to our undergraduate majors, our department is a place for intellectual growth, a commitment to understanding and engaging major societal challenges, and collegial fellowship. Through research and publication, in-class teaching, and out-of-the-classroom experiences, members of the department reach out in the best tradition of both the sociological discipline and the social justice commitment of Jesuit universities.

Many challenges and problems confront our globalizing world, and a perspective that can examine these locally, nationally, or internationally is vital. At Loyola we have people—faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students—studying contemporary immigration, gender representations in the mass media, how cities thrive, racial diversity in American workplaces, religiously motivated environmentalism, and the politics of food and nutrition, to name just a few topics.

Along with our research, the department prides itself on its teaching and the quality of the experiences our majors and our grad students have. A sociology major is a valuable tool for understanding the world, and the communication and critical thinking skills a Loyola Sociology education offers are flexible and useful in the workplace.

So, we welcome your visit to our departmental website and I encourage you to check us out further, either in person or virtually. And please contact me if you have questions or information to share with our department.

Best regards,

Peter Rosenblatt

The Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago advances the university's mission of expanding knowledge in the service of humanity. We are committed to social justice, diversity, inclusion, scientific inquiry, and academic freedom. As scholars trained in diverse methodological approaches and practitioners of community-engaged scholarship, our work addresses public issues in Chicago as well as nationally, transnationally, and globally.

As a department of teacher-scholars,

  • We are Curious. We ask questions of each other and our students and appreciate multiple perspectives.
  • We are Creative. We deploy many rigorous methodological tools to study and confront societal challenges. We also cultivate these skills in our students.
  • We are Caring. We practice cura personalis toward one-another and our students. We appreciate differences and the differing needs of others.
  • We are Courageous and Persistent. We seek to foster optimism and joy in the face of inequalities, challenges, and constraints. We affirm that hope is needed to bring about social justice.
  1. Our department aims to be a space where faculty and students from different social backgrounds (based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexuality, disability, political orientation, and documentation status) grow and empower themselves as individuals through the development of academic, analytic, and leadership skills.
  2. We underscore diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as priorities in our academic and pedagogical endeavors, including but not limited to teaching, mentoring, and curriculum development. In addition, we enhance awareness of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging through our research and intellectual production.
  3. As a department, we are unwavering in our commitment to attracting, recruiting, and retaining a diverse population of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and staff. 
  4. We believe that the department's inclusion of minoritized and historically underrepresented groups must go beyond mere representation. Rather, inclusion and belonging require creating and fostering a welcoming environment and departmental culture that allows for creativity of thought, scholarship, and action.

Peter Rosenblatt

Welcome to Loyola University Chicago’s Department of Sociology. From our faculty, to our graduate students, to our undergraduate majors, our department is a place for intellectual growth, a commitment to understanding and engaging major societal challenges, and collegial fellowship. Through research and publication, in-class teaching, and out-of-the-classroom experiences, members of the department reach out in the best tradition of both the sociological discipline and the social justice commitment of Jesuit universities.

Many challenges and problems confront our globalizing world, and a perspective that can examine these locally, nationally, or internationally is vital. At Loyola we have people—faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students—studying contemporary immigration, gender representations in the mass media, how cities thrive, racial diversity in American workplaces, religiously motivated environmentalism, and the politics of food and nutrition, to name just a few topics.

Along with our research, the department prides itself on its teaching and the quality of the experiences our majors and our grad students have. A sociology major is a valuable tool for understanding the world, and the communication and critical thinking skills a Loyola Sociology education offers are flexible and useful in the workplace.

So, we welcome your visit to our departmental website and I encourage you to check us out further, either in person or virtually. And please contact me if you have questions or information to share with our department.

Best regards,

Peter Rosenblatt

The Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago advances the university's mission of expanding knowledge in the service of humanity. We are committed to social justice, diversity, inclusion, scientific inquiry, and academic freedom. As scholars trained in diverse methodological approaches and practitioners of community-engaged scholarship, our work addresses public issues in Chicago as well as nationally, transnationally, and globally.

As a department of teacher-scholars,

  • We are Curious. We ask questions of each other and our students and appreciate multiple perspectives.
  • We are Creative. We deploy many rigorous methodological tools to study and confront societal challenges. We also cultivate these skills in our students.
  • We are Caring. We practice cura personalis toward one-another and our students. We appreciate differences and the differing needs of others.
  • We are Courageous and Persistent. We seek to foster optimism and joy in the face of inequalities, challenges, and constraints. We affirm that hope is needed to bring about social justice.
  1. Our department aims to be a space where faculty and students from different social backgrounds (based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexuality, disability, political orientation, and documentation status) grow and empower themselves as individuals through the development of academic, analytic, and leadership skills.
  2. We underscore diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as priorities in our academic and pedagogical endeavors, including but not limited to teaching, mentoring, and curriculum development. In addition, we enhance awareness of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging through our research and intellectual production.
  3. As a department, we are unwavering in our commitment to attracting, recruiting, and retaining a diverse population of faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and staff. 
  4. We believe that the department's inclusion of minoritized and historically underrepresented groups must go beyond mere representation. Rather, inclusion and belonging require creating and fostering a welcoming environment and departmental culture that allows for creativity of thought, scholarship, and action.