I'm happy to serve as President of the AHS and bring this year's conference to Rutgers University. I am an Assistant Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University.

I went to my first AHS conference in 2015. I found the conference welcoming and engaging with a sense of community that is often lacking at larger conferences. I have attended ever since and found each new meeting an exciting and intellectually engaging experience.  

AHS shares my belief that sociology, at its core, is about a democratic orientation to social life. As I tell me students, sociology is about the impact of social context, but more importantly the malleability of social context. The larger social forces that impact our lives are created through are collective efforts and together we can change them. 

Dr. Jeffrey Dowd
 

Notes & statements from the President*

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