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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 […]

Congratulations and Welcome our new Graduate students!

The Sociology Department provides a challenging and engaging environment for students entering into our Graduate program. Entering cohorts typically range from 5-12 students per year. This year we welcome five new students to our program.  Madison Danton  Madison Danton has a B.A. in Psychology with a Sociology minor from the San Diego State University and […]

Bandana Purkayastha Awards and Honors

Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian & Asian American Studies. She served as Head, Sociology, at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) from 2011-2016 Leadership. Her current research interests focus on human rights/human security, migration and migrants, intersectionality, and violence. Her earlier research on ethnicity, racism, gender, violence and peace has been published in many […]

Cutting Words: Etiquette as a Tool of Exclusion

May 15, 2019 – Kenneth Best – UConn Communications   While researching the cultural processes of inequality in community organizations, sociologist Andrea Voyer found that manners and etiquette often are noted in racial, ethnic, class and gender exclusion. In studying a parent-teacher group in a public school, for example, white and wealthy PTA parents rejected […]

Graduating Sociology Major, Lorianny Carrion

Lorianny Carrión BA, sociology major; English minor Hometown: Hartford, Connecticut Clubs: NRHH (National Residence Hall Honorary), LSAMP Scholar, McNair Fellow Scholarships: Leadership Scholarship         Q:Why did you choose to study (this major/minor)? A:I started off in biology, but I ended up switching because I realized I had always been struggling with science […]

CORRELATES, CAUSES, AND SOLUTIONS FOR FIREARM VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

From April 4th through 5th: The University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy is proud to present, in partnership with Connecticut’s public sector and nonprofit associations, Correlates, Causes and Solutions for Firearm Violence in America. The goal of the conference is to address three themes: Community and Social Movement Organizing: How do activists understand the […]

Daisy Reyes: Learning to be Latino

Daisy Reyes is a professor of sociology and El Instituto: The Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies. Her current research interests focus on how race and ethnicity are constructed, with particular focus on sites critical for social mobility, like colleges and universities. In her new book Learning to be Latino, professor Daisy Reyes […]

Many Migrants Can Take Nothing for Granted

Bandana Purkayastha is a professor of sociology and Asian & Asian American Studies, and former head of the Department of Sociology. She is the American Sociological Association’s national representative to the International Sociological Association. Her current research interests focus on human rights/human security, migration, intersectionality, and transnationalism. She recently published an article in the journal Current […]

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 […]

UConn Sociology students making waves internationally

Roseanne Njiru has been awarded a highly competitive 6 months fellowship to the University of Cambridge, UK. This fellowship allows her time to write up her research. She will be located at the Center for African Studies.   Farhan Navid Yousaf has invited by the UN to share his expertise on trafficking at a conference in South Korea on victim-centered approaches to […]