Congratulations to Amy Lawton, who has been awarded a graduate student fellowship through “The Sociology of Science and Religion: Identity and Belief Formation” funding initiative, led by Elaine Howard Ecklund (Rice University) and John H. Evans (University of California, San Diego), and funded through the Templeton Religion Trust (https://religion-science-sociology.com). The fellowship will support her research […]
Awards
2019 Award Photos
2019 SWS Mentoring Award
The mentoring award was established in 1990 to honor an SWS member who is an outstanding feminist mentor. In establishing the award, SWS recognized that feminist mentoring is an important and concrete way to encourage feminist scholarship. Manisha Desai is the Head of Sociology and Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the […]
2019 Jessie Bernard Award
The Jessie Bernard Award was established in 1977 by the ASA Council to honor Jessie Bernard’s enormous influence on the study of gender. The award is given in recognition of scholarly work inclusive of research, teaching, mentoring, and service, that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society. […]
2020 SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award Winner!
Congratulations to Katie L. Acosta, the 2020 SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award Winner The 2020 SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award Winner is Katie L. Acosta. Thank you to the SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Subcommittee that was comprised of Marybeth C. Stalp (Chair), Kimberly Kelly, Angela Hattery, and Koyel Khan.
2019 Provost’s Award
Carol Ann Jackson 20′ Department of Sociology College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Carol Ann Jackson is currently a graduate student at the Department of Sociology. Her primary research interests are race, gender and urban education. More specifically, examining processes of racialization, gendering, and social mobility in relation to the social marginalization and criminalization of […]
2019 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship
2019 Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship, formerly known as the Women of Color Dissertation Scholarship. The primary purposes of the scholarship are to offer support to women of color scholars who are from underrepresented groups and are studying concerns that women of color face domestically and/or internationally. Also to increase the network and participation of […]
Winners of the 2019 Sociology Department Awards
Please join us in congratulating the 2019 winners of the Sociology Department Awards!
Grad students awarded 2018 Wood/Raith Living Trust summer fellowship
Caner Hazar and Jordan Rees, graduate students from Department of Sociology, were each awarded a 2018 Wood/Raith Living Trust 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 […]
Five College Women’s Studies Research Center
The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center encourages engaged, critical feminist scholarship from diverse perspectives. Congratulations to UConn Sociology winner Chriss Sneed!