General Admission Contact
The New School for Social Research
Office of Admission
72 Fifth Avenue, 1st floor
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5600 or 800.523.5411
SocialResearchAdmit@newschool.edu
Admission Liaison
Aria Vaghayenegar
Department of Sociology
6 East 16th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10003
212.229.5737 x3125
Fax: 212.229.5595
Mailing Address
79 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor
New York, NY 10003
Chair
Virag Molnar
Senior Secretary
Charles Whitcroft
Student Advisor
Jack Wells
The Department of Sociology builds on its historical connections to European social science and further develops ideas and thinking for today's world. Develop a uniquely insightful approach to the investigation of social life alongside faculty and students who conduct research and critical inquiry that engage with academic communities around the globe.
The Department of Sociology emphasizes theoretically informed ethnographic, historical, and interpretive inquiry into the significant social issues of our times in local, national, and transnational contexts. The department is a vibrant hub of scholarship and intellectual life for students, faculty, and visitors from many countries.
Core areas of research in the department reflect the interests and research of our renowned faculty: social inequalities; culture and politics; law, rights, and citizenship; historical and comparative sociology; cities and publics; media and communication; and political participation in the Global South.
Through the department's activities, we strive to help students better understand the major transformations in modern and postmodern societies and to prepare them for the normative or analytical challenges these transformations continually pose.
Students pursuing a degree in sociology take part in the intellectual life of NSSR's many centers, including the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. Students contribute to our online publication, Public Seminar, and engage with New York City's peerless array of scholarly and cultural institutions.
Our alumni pursue doctoral study at The New School for Social Research and other top universities or put their training to use successfully in a wide range of non-academic careers.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.