Pais, Jeremy, Andrew Deener, Mary J. Fischer & Zachary D. Kline. 2022. “Shelter at Home, if You Can:” Community Vulnerability and Residential Sequestering During the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. The Sociological Quarterly, 63:3, 562-589. Roy, Rianka. 2023. “Don’t Panic! Reach Us: Indian Tech Unions’ Social Media Narratives during the Pandemic.” In Media Narratives during the Pandemic, edited by […]
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Sociology Career Milestones
Faculty Mary Bernstein has been appointed Associate Dean of The Graduate School at UConn. Congratulations Mary! A special congratulations to Bandana Purkayastha who has had an amazing year of accompishments! Firstly, Bandana was named the New CLAS Associate Dean. Additionally, Bandana has been selected as Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, the highest honor that the University bestows on faculty. […]
Meet the New Cohort!
she/her/hers Fall 2023 Cohort As a Yinzer who now calls the coast of Maine home, Samantha has long been enamored with life on the water. She joins the Department of Sociology as a Jorgensen Fellow to explore curiosities about past and present Atlantic seafaring communities. This humbling and exciting opportunity is derived from 10 years […]
Reflections from the Department Head
The UConn Sociology Department has continued to thrive despite the uncertainties in the University and worldwide with three new PhD graduates—all happily placed in tenure track or applied research positions—eight MAs and a robust undergraduate cohort of 209 majors and 151 minors. We have gained new financial commitments from the College of Liberal Arts and […]
Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring
Routledge, 2023
Listen: Five Minutes with Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19 (CLAS) and Bandana Purkayastha
Alumna Akshayaa Chittibabu ’19 (CLAS) and her undergraduate advisor, Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Bandana Purkayastha, discuss how one late night phone call accelerated their connection toward a family-like bond that they still share today. Listen here!
Rianka Roy: A Delegate on Behalf of Sociologists for Women in Society
Congratulations to our very own Ph.D. student, Rianka Roy, for serving as a delegate to a United Nations conference in March 2023! “Roy ’21 MA, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, served as one of 20 delegates representing the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), a nonprofit professional network of feminist sociologists and activists, at the […]
Mary Bernstein: Featured in RESPECT-NYC Documentary
Professor Mary Bernstein was recently featured in RESPECT-NYC, a documentary about the effects of gun violence produced by the Center for Urban Pedagogy.
David Embrick: Grant Recipient for Accessible Technology in Hartford
Congratulations to Professor David Embrick and his collaboration with the School of Engineering for receiving a $2.86 million grant from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration!
Bryan Greene: Africana Studies Research Funds
Congratulations to Bryan Greene for his proposal “From #BlackLivesMatetr to #DontCallMeMurzyn: Exploring Anti-Blackness in Poland” receiving funding from the Africana Studies Institute‘s Africana Studies Research Fund!