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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 […]

Dr. Arnold Dashefsky Receives Sklare Award

The Marshall Sklare Award is given annually by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) to a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry, primarily through the publication of a body of research in books and articles or of published work related to public policy. […]

Phoebe Godfrey: Contributing Author to “The Immigrant Food Nexus”

The Open Access edition of The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor and Identity in North America is now available at: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4614/The-Immigrant-Food-NexusBorders-Labor-and-Identity. Phoebe Godfrey contributed a chapter on CLiCK, a non-profit, multi-cultural, multi-service kitchen connecting farmers, chefs, and food-lovers. Their producers buy local ingredients, support local farms, and help to grow our local economy—right here in Windham […]

David Embrick: Africana Studies Institute Faculty Research Funding

Congratulations to David Embrick, who is a distinguished awardee for the competitive 2019-2020 Africana Studies Institute Faculty Research Funding for his proposal titled “Blackness, Racial Oppression, and Continued Violations of Human Rights: Comparing [illegally occupied] Palestine and [racial apartheid in] South Africa.” The Africana Studies Institute (ASI) at the University of Connecticut prioritizes faculty research […]