Congratulations to Noel Cazenave, recipient of the Faculty Excellence in Research and Creativity-Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Award! The Faculty Excellence in Research and Creativity Awards are given to individual faculty who have made significant and or creative contributions to a field of knowledge or area of inquiry. These awards recognize research excellence and the […]
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Noel Cazenave: What do people mean when they call for defunding the police?
Read Noel Cazenave’s interview in The Day, “What do people mean when they call for defunding the police?” “‘It is BECAUSE concepts like defunding and dismantling the police are so contentious and ambiguous that we are now having a much broader and deeper conversation than we did before they was introduced into the discourse,’ he wrote […]
Laura Mauldin: Disability as an Axis of Inequality
Laura Mauldin was the lead author on Disability as an Axis of Inequality: A Pandemic Illustration (Disability in Society) as part of the ASA Footnotes special issue on COVID19. “In summary, based on their social position and taken-for-granted ideologies that they are disposable and less worthy, disabled people are at increased risk for exposure to the virus […]
2020 Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellowship Winners
Congratulations to Asmita Aasavari, Koyel Khan, and Kylar Schaad, recipients of the 2020 Wood/Raith Gender Indentity Summer Fellowship! The Wood/Raith Living Trust is named for Audrey Wood (UCONN class of ‘47) and Edeltraut Raith. Both Wood and Raith earned their Masters in Library Science from the University of Southern California and spent their careers as […]
Noel Cazenave: Interview on “Dear No One” with Marceen Burgher
Host, Marceen Burgher has open dialogue with her guests on Indignation, Necropolitics and The Racial State. With special guest, Dr. Noel Cazenave, author of Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism and Professor at University of Connecticut. He discusses his book and the current racial climate surrounding deaths of George Floyd and others. Also on the Podcast […]
Statements and Resources in Support of Black Lives Matter
25 charts that show how systemic racism is in the US – Business Insider 382 faculty draft letter demanding USC’s commitment to concrete plans addressing racial inequality An Antiracist Reading List – The New York Times ASA COVID-19 Resources for Sociologists Association of Black Anthropologists’ Statement Against Police Violence and Anti-Black Racism Beyond “High Risk”: […]
In Solidarity and Struggle for Social and Racial Justice
Even as we were grappling with the systemic racism laid bare by the COVID pandemic in the disproportionate loss of life in African American, Latinx, and Indigenous communities and the targeting of Asian American communities, we are confronted by the more brutal expression of this enduring racism. These include four police officers murdering George Floyd, two white men killing of Ahmaud Arbery as he […]
Noel Cazenave’s Commentary on Vigilante Attacks in Philadelphia
Read Noel Cazenave’s commentary on vigilante attacks on Black Lives Matter activists in Philadelphia published in The Guardian, “The armed white men who terrorized Philadelphia’s Black Lives Matter supporters.” “‘I am absolutely not surprised this happened,’ said Noel Cazenave, a sociologist at the University of Connecticut and author of Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante […]
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Koyel Khan: WGSS Teaching Award
Congratulations to Koyel Khan, who has been selected for the Excellence in Graduate Teaching in Women’s Studies Award. This award recognizes excellence in teaching by graduate students in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program. It is awarded annually to a graduate student who exemplifies feminist pedagogy in the classroom.