The Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
(REG) program integrates theory and research on three key dimensions
of social organization: race, ethnicity, and gender. It explores how
these dimensions, both independently and in relationship to each other,
affect individuals, groups, and societies. Areas of faculty expertise
include: race and the labor market, gender and the family, theories
of racism and racial and ethnic identity, intergroup beliefs and attitudes,
immigration, racial and ethnic demography, gender and racial stratification,
and race and social movements. REG faculty examine how race, ethnicity,
and gender operate as axes of stratification and also of solidarity
across a range of social institutions (work, family, labor markets,
housing, religion, schools, social movements, social policy, criminal justice
and politics) both in the US and other areas of the world. We employ
diverse research methods, including ethnography, surveys, demographic
methods, and in-depth interviews. The Sociology Department's faculty
expertise in REG is complemented by UIC's Institute for Research on Race and
Public Policy, Institute of Government
and Public Affairs, Center for Research on
Women and Gender, Department of African-American
Studies, Department of Criminal
Justice, Department
of History's Graduate Concentration in Work, Race, & Gender in
the Urban World, programs in Latin American and Latino Studies
and Gender and
Women Studies. Students should feel free to seek out faculty in these
other units for additional coursework, research opportunities, and advice.