Congratulations to Professor Noel A. Cazenave for being featured in UConn Today to discuss his new book, “Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring”!
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David Embrick” ASA Award Winner
Congratulations to David Embrick and his co-author and co-editor, David Brunsma, for receiving the ASA Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award!
Bandana Purkayastha: UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Congratulations to Professor and CLAS Associate Dean, Bandana Purkayastha, for receiving the honor of being named one UConn’s Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors!
Noel A. Cazenave: Kindness Wars
Check out Professor Noel A. Cazenave’s new book, Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring.
Winners of the 2023 Sociology Department Awards
Please join us in congratulating the 2023 winners of the Sociology Department Awards!
Winners of the 2023 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship
Congratulations to our three winners of the 2023 Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Fellowship award, Davina Barbee, Carol Ann Jackson and Dunahay Pereyra! They will each receive summer fellowships of $4,000! Sociology was very well represented within a very competitive pool of 30 applicants across 15 programs/departments.
Listen: Five Minutes with Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19 (CLAS) and Bandana Purkayastha
Alumna Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19 (CLAS) and her undergraduate advisor, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Bandana Purkayastha, discuss how one late night phone call accelerated their connection toward a family-like bond that they still share today. Listen here!
Rianka Roy: A Delegate on Behalf of Sociologists for Women in Society
Congratulations to our very own Ph.D. student, Rianka Roy, for serving as a delegate to a United Nations conference in March 2023! “Roy ’21 MA, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, served as one of 20 delegates representing the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), a nonprofit professional network of feminist sociologists and activists, at the […]
Mary Bernstein: Featured in RESPECT-NYC Documentary
Professor Mary Bernstein was recently featured in RESPECT-NYC, a documentary about the effects of gun violence produced by the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
David Embrick: Grant Recipient for Accessible Technology in Hartford
Congratulations to Professor David Embrick and his collaboration with the School of Engineering for receiving a $2.86 million grant from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration!