Professor Janice McCabe Talks About Making Friends

    Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM until 1:30 PMEastern Daylight Time UTC -04:00

    Anonymous Hall, 113 Guarini Conference Room

    Join Professor Janice McCabe for lunch to talk about her research on the importance of friendship.
    Lunch provided

    Dr. Janice McCabe is an associate professor of sociology and the Allen House Professor at Dartmouth College. She teaches courses on the sociology of education, youth, gender, social problems, and research methods at Dartmouth. Dr. McCabe is the President of the Sociology of Education Association (SEA). Her books, Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students Networks (University of Chicago Press, 2025) and Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success (University of Chicago Press, 2016), focus on friendship networks and identities during college and into young adulthood. She is interested in how gender, race/ethnicity, and social class operate as social identities and how they shape social networks. Her research has been covered, among other places, in the Washington Post, Time magazine; NPR, New York Magazine, and the Boston Globe.


    Quoted: Janice McCabe in The New York TimesI Study Friendship. Here’s How You Make Lasting Friends.“I recommend a New Year’s resolution: Do the work to find new friendship markets in 2026, rather than waiting passively for new connections to find you,” the associate professor of sociology writes in an opinion column on making friends.


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