Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Jane Pryma, who has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 – 2023 Honors Faculty Member of the Year Award!
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Feb. 8, 2023: Pipeline to Publishing
In the first installment of the Pipeline to Publishing Workshop participants will discuss Rianka Roy’s circulated paper, “The Membership Game: Limited Participation in Indian Tech Unions and Some Responses.”
Laura Bunyan: Husky Harvest in “UConn Today”
Check out UConn Today’s recent article “Husky Harvest Aims to Help Regional Campuses with 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 began as a hands-on class project that came about at the suggestion of colleagues and after talking with organizers of a pantry at Norwalk Community College.
Ryan Talbert: CLAS Research in Academic Themes Award
Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Ryan Talbert, whose proposal titled “Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Roles, and Cardiovascular Health among Black Men and Women” has been awarded funding through the CLAS Research in Academic Themes initiative.
Sociology Major Featured in UConn Today
In their September 29, 2022 article, “Native American and Indigenous Community Takes Shape At UConn,” UConn Today features the work of Sociology major Samantha Gove.
Phoebe Godfrey: A Kitchen for the Community
Check out this video featuring Sociology Professor Phoebe Godfrey and her work with the Commercially Licensed Co-operative Kitchen, or CLiCK Willimantic. CLiCK is a place where anyone from the community can learn vital skills, from growing food to working in the food industry, and where incubating businesses can use the facilities to get their businesses off the ground with fewer start-up funds.
Reflections from the Department Head
We find ourselves again this summer in the midst of the continually challenging pandemic and racist and hate inspired mass shootings. Additionally, we have rising inflation, even as wages for most workers have been stagnant for decades leading to a resurgence in unionizing around the country; the hearings of the “Select Committee to Investigate […]
Matthew Hughey: “What Everyday White Americans and the Buffalo Shooter Have in Common”
Check out Professor Matthew Hughey’s recent article in Slate, “What Everyday White Americans and the Buffalo Shooter Have in Common.” **Excerpt from Article** In the rush to make sense of the shooting in Buffalo, many have categorized the violence as the reflection of hatred, bigotry, mental illness, and growing extremism. It may be tempting, or even […]
Mary Bernstein: Gun Culture in America
Check out Professor Mary Bernstein and Allison Anderman, senior counsel and director of local policy at Giffords— an organization working end gun violence— as they join Gabe Ortis of Good Morning Baltimore to discuss gun violence, prevention, and policy in “Two Way Talk: Gun Culture in America”.
David Embrick: Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award
Please join us in congratulating David Embrick, winner of the 2022 Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems! Established in 2016, the Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award is awarded annually to an outstanding faculty member or community activist. The award was established to recognize the value of quality […]