Ph.D. student Becca Chalit-Hernandez has been awarded the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Graduate Student Research Paper Award for her paper, “Hunger Strikes and Differential Consciousness: Impure Contestation, Hunger, and the Building of Symbolic Futures.” AFHVS is a leading interdisciplinary food studies association. The committee for Becca’s prestigious award wrote, “This paper is […]

Two Sociology Ph.D. students have been accepted into the CSU Summer Extension Internship Program. The award for each internship is $4000 for ten weeks. Interns each make a final Extension program and poster presentation at CSU’s annual Extension Forum held on campus each fall. Emilia Ravetta was selected for the Larimer County Farmers’ Market internship. […]

Emma Casey “Victimhood and Actorhood: Constructions of agency in anti-trafficking advocacy” Emma’s thesis identified and critically analyzed patterns among antitrafficking organizations in their constructions of victimhood and victim agency. Emma will continue her intellectual pursuits as a PhD student in sociology at Stanford University. Committee: Lynn Hempel, Tara Opsal, Tony Roberts, and Sammy Zahran (Economics).  […]

Ph.D. student Emilia Ravetta and M.A. student Thai Binh Tran were accepted for CSU’s annual Graduate Student Showcase held virtually on November 18, 2020. Binh’s presented “Effects of Religion on Empowerment Rights: A Cross National Study.” Emilia presented “An Inductive Analysis of Mixed-status Families and Legal Clinic Participation.” In the Showcase’s new virtual platform, you can watch […]

This summer Azmal Hossan began working with the COVID-19 and Food Insecurity interdisciplinary research group, one of the CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research. The groups’ projects are supported by the National Science Foundation-funded (NSF) Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards […]

Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan has been accepted to the Agents of Change in Environmental Health Fellowship, a joint initiative of George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health and Environmental Health News. In spring 2020, his cohort will begin a nine-month program to receive rigorous training on writing and publishing academic pieces on environmental health […]

Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan has been invited to attend two prestigious summer schools at renowned European universities. Global Environment Summer Academy 2020 is jointly organized by the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and the Global Diversity Foundation. The Academy was to be held at the University of Oxford in the UK this fall. It […]