NEWS
K.J. Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Coordinator of the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative, is featured in a new CSSH faculty spotlight.

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of Research, Dukakis Center
Associate Professor of Political Science
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities
Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Academic Specialist in Chinese
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Nominate a Faculty Member for CSSH's Outstanding Teaching Awards

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and in recognition of the excellent teaching provided by faculty and graduate students in our college, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities is pleased to provide these annual awards.

The award types are:
  • Outstanding Teaching Award: Tenured/Tenure-Track: open to any tenured or tenure-track faculty member in the college.
  • Outstanding Teaching Award: Full-Time Non-Tenure Track: open to any full-time, non-tenure track faculty member, including lecturers, academic specialists, teaching professors, professors of the practice, and co-op coordinators.
  • Outstanding Teaching Award: Part-Time: open to any part-time instructor in the college.
  • Outstanding Teaching Award: Graduate Student: open to all graduate teaching assistants and graduate instructors of record in the college.
RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS
Miranda P. Dotson, Sociology PhD student, has co-published an article with her colleagues in the journal Emerging Adulthood. The article, "'Emotional Distancing': Change and Strain in U.S. Young Adult College Students' Relationships During COVID-19", explores the adverse effects of the pandemic on the social relationships of college-going emerging adults, aged 18-22.
Sebastian Stockman, Teaching Professor and Director of the Writing Minor, has published “Freud, Facts, and Folly,” a consideration of journalist Janet Malcolm’s work, its relationship to psychoanalysis, and her unique position in the history of New Journalism, in the literary magazine Majuscule.
Suzanna Danuta Walters, Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has published in Ms. Magazine the op-ed "Subject: Man. Object: Woman. Verb? Control" on reproductive autonomy and sexual freedom.
EVENTS
Faculty Works-in-Progress | Concluding Thoughts: Popular Economies and Pandemic Fraud in Indonesia

Monday, January 24
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenter is Doreen Lee,
Associate Professor of Anthropology.
IRJ Race and Community Dialogue Series: Forum on Race, Police and Youth Relationships Part 2 - Expanding the Conversation

Tuesday, January 25
3:30 - 5:00 PM
 
The Institute on Race and Justice and its Community Advisory Board present the second annual "Race and Community Dialogue Series." This series consists of three panel discussions exploring important topics on race and communities of color amid the pandemic and considerations post COVID-19.
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Monday, February 7
5:30 - 7:00 PM
 
Raytheon Amphitheatre
This year's Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week begins with speaker Jeffrey Veidlinger from the University of Michigan.
Asia America and the World | Race, Religion, and Belonging of South Asian Americans: 20 Years after 9/11

Thursday, February 10
6:00 - 7:00 PM
 
Sangay Mishra, Associate Professor of Political Science, Drew University, will speak at the fifth session of Asia America and the World. He specializes in immigrant political incorporation, transnationalism, diaspora, and racial and ethnic politics. His work engages with political participation of South Asian immigrants in the United States as well as countries of origin with a particular focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
WGSS Visiting Scholar Talk: 'Girls for Sale:' The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Modern Sex Trafficking Narratives

Tuesday, February 15
12:00 - 1:00 PM
 
Mary Gryctko, Visiting Scholar, will present a talk on her work-in-progress followed by a Q&A. She will focus on young sex workers in Victorian England and the ways in which reformers who framed them as "children" worked to take away their agency, and to frame all sex work as non-consensual "trafficking."