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Every year, our department strives to continue its legacy of excellence in the field of Sociology through outstanding scholarly research, teaching, and public engagement. Our faculty are internationally and nationally prominent; we have a history of leadership in professional organizations. Our faculty and graduate students are engaged in exciting, socially meaningful research; many of them have been featured in the media this year.
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100+
Minors
100+
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News
- Sociology Graduate Course Schedule: Fall 2024Please see this news post for a list of all Sociology Graduate courses being offered this semester.Posted on March 8, 2024
- Mangala Subramaniam, ’01 (Ph.D.): VCU Senior Vice Provost for Faculty AffairsMangala Subramaniam, '01 (Ph.D. ), has been named Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs in the Virginia Commonwealth University Office of the Provost.Posted on February 9, 2024
- Gino Herring, ’89 (BA): Election Candidate Search EngineGino Herring (BA 1989) has launched the world's first voter education tool box and candidate search engine, Best Candidate.Posted on February 9, 2024
Upcoming Events
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Mar
28
Geography Colloquium - Dr. Caglar Koylu 3:30pm
Geography Colloquium - Dr. Caglar Koylu
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Austin Building
Dr. Caglar Koylu
University of Iowa
Associate Professor, Dept of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences
https://clas.uiowa.edu/geography/people/caglar-koylu
Analysis of U.S. internal migration using population-scale family tree data, 1789-1930
Analysis of long-term migration data is crucial for understanding the changing nature of the drivers of migration, regional disparities, demographic changes, and climate variability. Specifically, in the context of the U.S., the study of long-term migration is distinct because the European settlement was significantly influenced by land resources and economic prospects, highlighting the unique role of geographic and demographic expansion in shaping the nation’s complex history, mindful of the profound effects on Indigenous populations. The increasing availability of digitized historical sources on genealogy websites have enabled numerous individuals to assemble and share their family trees. Only a handful of research teams have leveraged extensive datasets of user-contributed family trees, and cleaned, connected and deduplicated them to generate population-scale family trees to investigate social processes, particularly migration. In this presentation, Dr. Koylu will shed light on his team’s efforts to construct the largest connected family tree to date, connecting 40 million relatives spanning across several centuries and continents. He will delve into the innovative techniques that harness the power of geographic information science to analyze and visualize big family tree data. These efforts enable the assessment of how representative the tree data is of the overall population in the U.S., the exploration of migration patterns and kinship networks across geographic space and time and provide valuable insights and historical context crucial for understanding the ongoing socio-economic and demographic transformations.
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Mar
29
Spring Research Symposium 1:00pm
Spring Research Symposium
Friday, March 29th, 2024
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Manchester Hall
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Apr
10
Master Human Rights Practitioner Workshop with Charlie Clements 12:00pm
Master Human Rights Practitioner Workshop with Charlie Clements
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
About the Workshop
This workshop offers UConn graduate students a unique opportunity to learn about human rights practice from Charlie Clements, a notable human rights campaigner/practitioner on the global stage. Using examples from his lifetime of experience and achievement, Charlie will discuss what it takes to start and maintain a successful social movement, with an emphasis on having dialogue with students about how to turn these lessons into future successes in their own human rights work.
About the Facilitator
As President of Physicians for Human Rights, Charlie Clements, MD, MPH was a key member of the coalition that produced the international treaty to ban landmines that won the Nobel Peace Prize. As a medical practitioner during the civil wars in Central America in the 1980s, Charlie inspired an Oscar-winning documentary about his work. Clements has also served as the Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School
Lunch will be served. Please register below.
Have a food allergy we should be aware of? Let us know in the comments of your registration.
Contact Information:
Alex Branzell, Events & Communications Coordinator, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
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Apr
12
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Zachary D. Kline 9:00am
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Zachary D. Kline
Friday, April 12th, 2024
09:00 AM
Manchester Hall
Department of Sociology: Announcement of Dissertation Defense
The Rise of “Choice” Programs: 100 Years of Social Sorting in Social Welfare Services -
Apr
12
Doctoral Dissertation Defense (Sociology) 1:00pm
Doctoral Dissertation Defense (Sociology)
Friday, April 12th, 2024
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Manchester Hall
Department of Sociology: Announcement of Dissertation Defense
Title: The Counter-Conduct of Labor: How Indian Tech Workers Organize in India and the US
Candidate: Rianka Roy
Chair: Manisha Desai
Committee: Andrew Deener, Bandana Purkayastha, David Embrick, Mary Bernstein
Date: April 12, 2024 (Friday); Time: 1 pm to 3 pm EST; Venue: Manchester Hall Library