Check out UConn Today’s recent article “Pop-Up Food Pantry at UConn Stamford Aims to Curb Food Insecurity” featuring Assistant Professor in Residence, Laura Bunyan’s, work with Katharine Vartuli ’23 (CLAS) to provide food to those in need. The pop-up pantry is a hands-on project that came about at the suggestion of colleagues and after talking with […]
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UConn Junior Named a Truman Scholar
Congratulations to Irene Soteriou ’23 (CLAS) who has been recently named a Truman Scholar with the help of mentoring from Professor of Sociology, Bradley Wright. Check out the article here. *Excerpt from Article* “Working with Dr. Wright was illuminating in that it opened my eyes to the possibility of leading a life of intentionality and […]
Nicholas Xenophontos: 2022 SURF Grant
Please join us in congratulating undergraduate Sociology major Nicholas (Niko) Xenophontos and his faculty mentor, Mary Bernstein, on being awarded a SURF grant for his research project entitled: “Preventing Gun Violence Online: Comparing Social Media Content from the National Rifle Association and Everytown for Gun Safety.”
Darrell Irwin: Russian Disinformation Campaign Targeted Ukraine
UConn Today featured Assistant Professor of Sociology, Darrell Irwin, in “Report: Russian Disinformation Campaign Targeted Ukraine, Other Countries During Pandemic.” The article discusses Professor Irwin’s involvement with research to counter Russian sourced disinformation efforts directed at the state health sector and its COVID-19 response and vaccine hesitation in Kazakhstan, Georgia and the Ukraine. *Excerpt from […]
Dr. S. Anandhi: The Pandemic of Caste
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Bandana Purkayastha: Where We Live
Check out Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies Bandana Purkayastha on CT’s Public Radio “From Bangladesh to Bengali Harlem and Hartford Stage, a conversation with actor and playwright Alaudin Ullah.” Listen Here
Noel Cazenave: “Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize”
Check out Professor of Sociology, Noel Cazenave’s, recent talk with the Matrix Center “Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize: Why Racial Justice Activists Must Chart Our Own Course and Not Get Sidetracked into Reacting to the Backlashes of Frightened Democrats and Angry Republicans Like Those Against ‘Defund the Police’ and ‘Critical Race Theory.“
Rianka Roy: “Politics through Precarity”
Congratulations to graduate student Rianka Roy ,whose recent article “Politics through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India during the Covid-19 Pandemic” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
Christin Munsch: Residential Fellow at CASBS
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Christin Munsch has been invited to be a residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University during the 2022–23 academic year to work on a monograph that extends her work on “masculinity contest cultures” (MCCs) to academic social science and other professional contexts […]
Jane Pryma- “Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Credibility Crisis”
Read Assistant Professor of Sociology Jane Pryma’s recent article titled, “Technologies of Expertise: Opioids and Pain Management’s Credibility Crisis” in The American Sociological Review. Pryma discusses the reasoning for the *Abstract* Journalistic accounts of the opioid crisis often paint prescription opioids as the instrument of profit-minded pharmaceutical companies who enlisted pain specialists to overprescribe addictive […]