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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 […]

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.

Matthew Hughey: Recent Media Appearances

Read Matthew Hughey’s recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant, “There’s Another Pandemic to Fight: Racism.” The article can be found here.   “Until we face up to our own lack of empathy and kindness to others, coupled with a hard look at the white-interests of disease-blaming, we will not understand how truly connected and reliant […]

Christin Munsch’s Interview for WalletHub

“Each career has its own unique challenges for balancing work and family – but blue and pink collar occupations and the service industry work are especially difficult. In many white-collar occupations, work can be done from home (as we are seeing now) and the pay is better – so families can outsource things like childcare, […]

Congratulations to Our 2020 Award Winners!

“I am an undergraduate Honors student at UConn triple majoring in Sociology, the Biological Sciences, and Spanish with plans to graduate in December 2020. Throughout my college career I have been dedicated to the cause of improving my community through social justice. As a part of my efforts I have headed the student-led UConnPIRG hunger […]