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!
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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!
Bryan Greene: Africana Studies Research Funds
Congratulations to Bryan Greene for his proposal “From #BlackLivesMatetr to #DontCallMeMurzyn: Exploring Anti-Blackness in Poland” receiving funding from the Africana Studies Institute‘s Africana Studies Research Fund!
Carol Ann Jackson: Africana Studies Institute Grant Recipient
Please join us in congratulating Carol Ann Jackson on her successful application to the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research on Women and Girls of Color! This grant is funded through UConn’s Africana Studies Institute and will support Carol’s research on policing and strategies of resilience among Black girls in Connecticut.
Phoebe Godfrey: Environmental & Social Sustainability Small Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Phoebe Godfrey and Juan Pablo Yepes Tobón, who were awarded a grant for $6,203.00 from the 2022 Environmental and Social Sustainability Small Grants (ESSSG) Program to fund their proposal of Non-Violence Mindfulness Training and a Mother Earth Day Festival. The Office of Sustainability and the Institute of the Environment began a funding […]
Phoebe Godfrey: Undergraduate Mindfulness and Activism Workshop
Three students had the opportunity to facilitate a Mindfulness and Activism Workshop for Professor in Residence, Phoebe Godfrey’s Social Theory class. Here is what her students had to say about the workshop: “This workshop, in our opinion, was a complete success! Being able to teach the true importance of mindfulness and activism was a great […]
Nicholas Simon: Winner of the CSCU Excellence in Teaching Award
Congratulations to Professor Nicholas Simon of Sociology at Eastern Connecticut State University for receiving the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System’s 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award! Professor Simon received his Ph.D. in Sociology from UConn in 2017.
Network for the Social Scientific Study of Science and Religion
The Network for the Social Scientific Study of Science and Religion (N4SR) was established in 2011 to promote empirical research on the relationship between science and religion. Congratulations to UConn Sociology winner Amy Lawton!