Kim Price-Glynn, Author Rutgers University Press, 2025 Who cares for parental caregivers? The short answer is, parenting groups do. Who Cares for Parents examines how parenting groups collectively build and contribute significant resources to form a broader care infrastructure for adult family caregivers with children. This book looks at the content of care parenting groups […]
Publications
Mary Bernstein: Featured Interview in the Hartford Courant
UConn Sociology Professor Mary Bernstein has recently had a published interview in the Hartford Courant’s article “She’s a Sandy Hook survivor and a UConn student. Her passion now also is gun violence prevention.” She spoke to how youth activism, sparked in part by school shootings such as Sandy Hook, plays an important part in the […]
Read Volume 5 of “The Mirror”
Check out volume five (2026) of the Sociology undergraduate journal, The Mirror. Volume 5 was edited by editor-in-chief Ken Day alongside the rest of the editorial team: Eashwar Krishna, Maya Bolles, and Erin Tumimnello. The mission of The Mirror is to provide undergraduate students a platform to showcase their work and educate the community on sociological issues. The […]
Read Volume 4 of “The Mirror”
Check out volume 4 (2025) of the Sociology undergraduate journal, The Mirror. Volume 4 was edited by editor-in-chief Ken Day alongside the rest of the editorial team: Kevin Hudson and Grace Carpenter. The mission of The Mirror is to provide undergraduate students a platform to showcase their work and educate the community on sociological issues. The editorial […]
Kim Price-Glynn: Interview Appears in UConn Today
Professor Kim Price-Glynn was featured in a UConn Today article profiling her book, “Who Cares About Parents?”, where she was interviewed on gendered inequalities in parenting. The Sociology Department wishes to extend our congratulations!
Social Theories for the Anthropocene: Diversities Across the Divides
Phoebe Godfrey & Ordoitz Galilea, Editors Routledge, 2025 This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to key social theories from classical, multicultural, global, and indigenous perspectives, while also inviting them to understand social theories as stories that create our culturally specific social realities. The readings in this collection emphasize the ways our culturally perceived social-environmental divide […]
Cazenave Eyes: Memoirs of Racism and Racism Studies
Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 2025
Read Volume 3 of “The Mirror”
This third edition of The Mirror was edited by editors-in-chief Amanda Rodrigues and Nicholas Xenophontos, along with the rest of the editorial team.
Phoebe Godfrey: Reflections on COPD 2022
This November, Professor in Residence Phoebe Godfrey attended the second week of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP), of the UNFCCC (United Nations Frame-work Convention on Climate Change). COP27 took place in Sharm el-Sheikh, and took place from November 6th to November 18th. Professor Godfrey was joined by fourteen current UConn students as well as a number of other faculty.
Mary Bernstein: “Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?”
Check out Professor Mary Bernstein’s recent article in the Boston Review, “Are the Courts the Way to Queer Rights?”. ***Excerpt from Article*** Today, as LGBTQ and other legal protections hang in the balance, we ought to move beyond the narrow question of the generic benefit or harm of legal strategies. We need a broader focus, […]