Department News

  • Angie Beeman, ’10 (Ph.D.): “Liberal White Supremacy”
    In her recent publication titled Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression, Angie Beeman, '01 (Ph.D.), argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. 
    Posted on February 9, 2024
  • Alumna Mangala Subramaniam, ’01 (Ph.D.): Co-Edited Collection
    Dismantling Institutional Whiteness gathers a range of first-person narratives from women of color and examines the challenges they face not only at a systemic level, but also at a deeply personal level. Their experiences combined with research and statistics paint a sobering portrait of higher education’s problems when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    Posted on February 9, 2024
  • Rianka Roy: Panelist at the Global Cultures Conference
    Congratulations to our fellow graduate student, Rianka Roy, who was invited to speak as a panelist on "Modern Growth Post-Colonization" as part of the Global Cultures Conference hosted by the UConn School of Business!
    Posted on October 11, 2023
  • Pipeline to Publishing: Fall 2023 Schedule
    The Pipeline to Publication Workshop or P2P is back in Fall 2023. Faculty and graduate students of the Department of Sociology will discuss the following authors' papers. Please write to Rianka Roy, Xinyan Wu (Tiu) and Dunahay Pereyra if you want to participate. We are meeting in Manchester Hall room 125 at 1 pm on the following dates. Everyone's invited.
    Posted on September 29, 2023