Archive: Sociology
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Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences Professor Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at HUD
After teaching about housing policy on the Hilltop for the last decade, Brian McCabe (SFS’02) is now leading housing policy development for the Biden Administration within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
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Fighting for Food Justice: Sociology Professor Yuki Kato Researches Intersectional Effects of Gentrification in DC
Urban sociologist and assistant professor Yuki Kato, Ph.D., is working to bring awareness to issues related to urban agriculture in Washington, DC. An advocate for environmental justice, Kato is leading cutting edge research through collaborative projects on Georgetown’s campus and beyond.
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Yu Huang, Martínez Sánchez Selected for 2021 Chester Gillis Award
Each year, the College Academic Council (CAC) recognizes two students who embody the values of a liberal arts education in the Jesuit tradition through the Chester Gillis Award. This year, Heather Yu Huang (C’23) and Jennifer Martínez Sánchez (C’22) were selected from a pool of 95 applicants for this honor.
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Georgetown College Hosts Racial Justice Speaker Series to Promote Equity and Inclusion
Next week, Georgetown College will host its first event in the series “Such a Time As This”: Racial Justice and the University in order to explore how research by Georgetown faculty advances racial justice and how the university may continue to work for a more equitable community at the university level and beyond.
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Two Sociology Professors Teach Course that Examines Impacts of COVID-19 on Society
Due to the vast and pervasive effects of COVID-19, two sociologists are offering a new course about the social impacts of pandemics. This fall, Katharine Donato, interim chair of the Department of Sociology, and Becky Yang Hsu, professor of sociology, are co-teaching SOCI022, Social Problems: Pandemics and Society, a class that examines the consequences of the pandemic for social inequality.
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Young Alumnus Continues Fight for LGBTQ, Civil Rights During Pandemic
LGBTQ youth advocate Trevor O’Connor (C’20) believes fighting for civil rights in the time of COVID-19 is more important than ever, no matter how it is done.
“A great analogy I’ve heard about advocacy during the current moment is that of a highway,” says O’Connor, an advocate for LGBTQ youth. “There are multiple lanes – frontline protesting, information gathering, research, being a shoulder to lean on, educating family members, donating, etc. – and it doesn’t matter what lane you’re in as long as you’re moving forward.”
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Senior Dedicated to Serving Campus and Local Community Receives Recognition
Emma Berk (C’20) has focused on being a person for others since her first year at Georgetown. Her work with four different service projects led her to receive the university’s prestigious Landegger Award, an honor given to students who have made outstanding contributions to community service. She hopes one day to become a psychologist in a correctional facility.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer Shares Work Featuring Immigrants from Border and Australian Wildfires
On Monday, photographer John Moore, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the World Press Photo of the Year, visited campus to show images from his recent work on immigration at the U.S. – Mexico border and the victims of the recent Australian wildfires. His body of work focuses primarily on humanizing issues that tend to emphasize statistics.
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Sociology Major Wins Beinecke Scholarship
Sociology major Orunima Chakraborti (C’20) has won a 2019 Beinecke Scholarship, a prestigious award given annually by The Sperry Fund to students who plan on enrolling in an arts, social sciences, or humanities-focused graduate program.
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Hsu Tackles Question of Happiness in China
Professor Becky Hsu led a multi-institutional research project into happiness in China, which inspired her own book, Happiness in China: Family, Fate, and the Good Death, available later this year from the University of Chicago Press.
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