Faculty
Mary Bernstein has been appointed Associate Dean of The Graduate School at UConn. Congratulations Mary!
A special congratulations to Bandana Purkayastha who has had an amazing year of accompishments! Firstly, Bandana was named the New CLAS Associate Dean.
Additionally, Bandana has been selected as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, the highest honor that the University bestows on faculty. The award lauded her research on inequalities and social transformation, migrants and migration, gender, and human rights as well as her engagement with the World Health Organization and United Nations offices and commitment to curriculum development and teaching. She joins Nancy Naples as one of the department’s two Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors.
Finally, Bandana was elected to be the new Vice President for the International Sociological Association.
Job Placements
Zoe Folsom was hired as a Public Affairs Associate for Encore Renewable Energy.
Ordoitz Galilea landed a position as assistant professor of sociology at Susquehana University.
Kristen Kirksey was hired as the Program Manager with the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. Kristin will be managing a multi-year project on women and reproductive health in Kenya, Ethiopia, and the U.S.
Kate Ragon was appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Augustana College.
Nabil Tueme was appointed as a Senior Research Associate at Springtide Research Institute.
PhD’s Awarded
Nabil Tueme – 11/17/2022– (Braunstein) Latino Youth Activism: Reconceptualizing Risk in Social Movement Theory
Kristin Kirksey – 4/3/2023– (Holzer) Global Priorities and Local Realities: The Implementation of Global Health and Development Policy in Ethiopia.
Ordoitz Galilea – 5/10/23– (Deener) What it Takes to Throw a Party: Community Frames of Meaning, Identity and Contestation in the Festival of San Fermín
MA’s Awarded
Dunahay Pereyra – 9/30/22– (Naples) From Feeling Sick to Being Ill: How Young Women Experience Chronic Illness
Junlan Ren – 9/30/22– (Showers/Talbert) English Proficiency and Ethnic Disparities in Health among U.S. Asian Men and Women
Sujin Rhim – 9/30/22– (Naples) The Paradox of Diversity: A Case Study of Diversity Organization and Operation in Higher Education
Yi Lan – 10/10/22– (Cheng) Do Attitudes Matter? Parental Influences on Children’s Outcome in China
Davina Barbee –10/19/22 – (Naples) Transing the Medical Gaze: Experiences of Transgender Patients in the Medical Institution
Cailey Hauver – 4/17/23 – (Naples) Fostering White Ignorance: An Analysis of White Settler Colonialism as Represented in Elementary School U.S. History Textbooks
Zoe Folsom – 5/7/23 – (Deener)
Dissertation Proposals
Rianka Roy 2/13/23
Marcus Garcia 10/3/22