01/18/2024
As we begin a new semester, the Sociology Department has exciting news! Cal Lee Garrett (UIC) and Rianka Roy (UConn) will join us as tenure-track Assistant Professors next fall. Join us in welcoming not one but TWO phenomenal scholars who we are certain will be incredible additions to the department, university, and community.
Cal Lee Garrett (they/them) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cal's research centers on how scientific research about the mind, the body, and the environment shapes social inequalities. They have taught courses on health, environment, social theory, and research methods. They also have interests in environmental justice, q***r theory, disability politics, infrastructure, and abolitionist approaches to teaching and learning.
Rianka Roy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Rianka studies how globalization and technology create new forms of work, new pathways of migration, and new goals and strategies of collective action. Her transnational research falls at the intersection of labor, migration, technology, labor movements, and social movements. She uses the sociological scholarship of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and global intersectionality to understand how social inequalities are reproduced in globalization, and how new forms of resistance emerge, along with new identities of work.
