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.
Awards
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!
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. Congratulations to Fulbright awardees Kamryn Warren, Farhan Yousaf, and Bryan Greene.
Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship
The Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship is awarded to an advanced sociology Ph.D. student who began their study in a community college or technical school. Congratulations to UConn Sociology winner Miho Iwata!