Read Arnie Dashefsky’s Interview in UCONN Today, Americans Abroad: Escaping or Enhancing Life? Dashefsky notes that the long-standing ideological metaphor of the United States as a melting pot of immigrants is not accurate looking through the lens of social science. “It created a false idea that there was democratization of the country,” he says. “The […]
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Sociology 5501: Racism in Spring 2021
Ryan Talbert: Familial Incarceration, Social Role Combinations, and Mental Health Among African American Women
Alumna Rachel Fain (2007): 2020 40 Under Forty Honoree
Congratulations to Sociology alumna Rachel J. Fain for being selected as one of Hartford Business Journal’s 2020 40 Under Forty! Rachel graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2007 and went on to earn a law degree from Western New England College Schoool of Law. She is currently a partner at Halloran & Sage LLP. […]
Kylar Schaad: Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences
Congratulations to Kylar Schaad, whose proposal has been chosen to receive funding by the Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). Kylar’s project will assess the factors that influence support for identity document laws that allow for people to change their birth certificate gender markers, including support for changes to a non-binary status. In particular, he will examine the role of […]
WGSS: “Thank You, Professor Ingrid Semaan!”
After fourteen years of remarkable leadership Ingrid Semaan is stepping down as director of the WGSS program at the Stamford Campus. Her Stamford colleagues are happy to know that she will continue to teach and mentor in WGSS and Sociology while also pursuing new research projects. Her many awards from students, community organizations and faculty […]
Amy Lawton: “Sinless, Fearless, Ruthless – A Look at Science and Social Science in a YA Sci-Fi Book”
From Wednesday, July 22, to Sunday, July 26, San Diego Comic-Con will be streaming content for Comic-Con@Home (https://www.comic-con.org/cci/2020/athome). Amy Lawton is part of a panel sponsored by the Fleet Science Center: “Sinless, Fearless, Ruthless – A look at science and social science in a YA sci-fi book.” The book is about dystopian religion and the panel will be available […]
Noel Cazenave Receives Faculty Excellence in Research Award
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 […]
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 […]