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 […]
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Ruth Braunstein: UConn Today
Check out UConn Today’s recent article highlighting the work of Associate Professor of Sociology Ruth Braunstein and her Meanings of Democracy Lab. Please also join us in congratulation Graduate Student Rianka Roy and Undergraduate Student Nicholas Xenophontos, who each received one of the five $100 prizes in the Democracy Lab’s “Meanings of ‘America’ Project.” *Excerpt from […]
Rianka Roy: Graduate Research Award
Congratulations to Sociology Ph.D candidate Rianka Roy on receiving the Graduate Research Grant through the Human Rights Institute with her research proposal titled “Mapping Transnational Rights: Indian Tech Workers’ Mobilization in India and the US”!
Rianka Roy: Immigrant workers’ movements in the U.S.
Congratulations to Graduate Student Rianka Roy on her upcoming publication in the Sociology Compass, “Immigrant workers’ movements in the U.S.: Where are high-skilled ‘nonimmigrants?” The Sociology Compass is an international journal publishing peer-reviewed research articles and surveys of current research from across the entire discipline, with the aim of providing topical and significant research on a […]
Rianka Roy: “Politics through Precarity”
Congratulations to graduate student Rianka Roy ,whose recent article “Politics through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India during the Covid-19 Pandemic” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Contemporary Asia.
Rianka Roy: Precarious Privilege
Check out graduate student Rianka Roy’s recent article in The European Legacy, “Precarious Privilege: Globalism, Digital Biopolitics, and Tech-Workers’ Movements in India.” Abstract This article focuses on Indian tech-workers’ views on labour and social movements in the context of precarity, digital globalism, and the neoliberal transformations of the culture and economy. Based on interviews of twenty […]
Rianka Roy: Policy Exception Grant
Please join us in congratulating Rianka Roy, who has received a Policy Exception Grant for summer 2021!
Rianka Roy: Intersectional Feminism–Desi Style!
Read Sociology graduate student Rianka Roy’s recent article in Feminism In India, “When Work Comes Home: Pandemic Realities For Indian Women In Tech.” The article discusses how the recent pandemic COVID-19 has impacted women in the Indian tech industry who must also perform domestic labor. ***Excerpt from Article*** “For women, however, WFH has erased […]
Rianka Roy: MLA 2021 Presidential Theme, “Persistence”
Congratulations to Rianka Roy, whose panel “Persistence in the Digital World: Rights, Movements, Knowledge, and Humanities” has been selected for possible inclusion in the MLA 2021 Presidential Theme.