Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society

The department sponsors a chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, the national honorary society in sociology.  The purpose of Alpha Kappa Delta is to seek to acknowledge and promote excellence in the scholarship in the study of sociology, the research of social problems, and such other social and intellectual activities as will lead to improvement in the human condition. 

Requirements: Members of AKD must be at least a junior and are expected to have a 3.3 cumulative GPA and a 3.0 GPA in four or more sociology courses taken at SLU.  The status of Life Member is conferred upon those persons who have been approved for membership by a Chartered Chapter of this society and who have paid the initiation fee for membership.  Membership fee is $50.00.  The Sociology Department will pay the initiation fee for Sociology majors and combined Environmental Studies-Sociology majors. 

Please fill out an AKD Membership Form to become an active member.  More information is available from the Sociology Department administrative assistant.

Members of Alpha Kappa Delta include:

2024

Rory Belz Baker

Lauren Catherine Cahill

Emma Frances Doherty

Meghan Elizabeth Hendrickson (Denmark)

Alexandra Elle Hurley

Hannah Marjorie Kelly

Ryan Scott Krugman

Sage E. Lalor

Abigail Frances MacDonald (Austria)

Chantel Marie McCarthy

Mikaela Marion Radochia

Anna Kate Constance Richardson

Sarah Springer Ritz

Emma Katherine Tobin (Austria)

Grace Anne Ward

Anna Hart Wilkerson

2023

Gabrielle Elizabeth Aldrich

Jacqueline Cairns Baker

Sophia Rose Brigante

Summer Elizabeth Burroughs

William Frederick Engelhardt

Aurora Jordan Hager

Maria Lynn Humphrey

Chloe Lacroix Knowles

Erica R. Kurash (Kenya)

Jennifer Whitney Bell L’Hommedieu

Elizabeth Mae Parker

Sophie Ann Parker (Spain)

Elise McKenzie Pierson

Sierra L. Sanson

Shannon Kathleen Tacy (Denmark)

Shea Li Tomlinson (Denmark)

Vivian Lore Zymeck

2022

Nishal Basnet

Rebecca Caudill

Shelby-Lynn Farman

Moira Hogan

Elyse Jackson

Makyla Kelley

Olivia Light

Maura McAnaney

Madison Olaynack

William Peterson

Elias Stowell

Caitlin Whitehead

2021

Ella Charlesworth

2020

Quinn Audsley

Marissa Foster

Cara Griffith

Madeleine Nasch

2019

Isabel Brennan

Madison Carroll

Matthew Edkins

Floor Fiers

Christiana Galowski

Eliza Gillilan

Sonja Jensen

Nuala Woods

2017

Dylan Arpey

Jessica Dorr

Rebecca Raab

Alita Rogers

Julia Simoes

Lillian Wittwer

2016

Emily Balter

Paige Friedlander

Liz Hills

Mackenzie Juda

Alex Keightley

Anna Kowanko

Victoria Leimgardt

Margot Nitschke

Lucy Ring

Faith Seeley

April VanOrman

Kimberly Weinberg

2015

Dominic Brennan

Adden Cunningham

Morgan McCall

Katherine Penalo

Austin Roney

Hannah Searle

Jessica Tyree

Caeleigh Warburton

Carrie Wilder

2014

Evan Castiranni

Merrill Clerkin

Natalia Cornell-Roberts

Star-Quana Jackson

Renee Lavigne

Joanna Patouris

Taylor Washington

Dayle Wilkinson

Please see Dr. Yesim Bayar or the Sociology Department administrative assistant for more information.