Welcome Two New Faculty Members

Inside this issue:

Welcome New Graduate

Students

2

Congratulations Andrew Lon-

don, Gretchen Purser, &

Kasturi Gupta

3

Faculty News & Presentations 4

Faculty Publications 5

Graduate Student News,

Publications & Presentations

6

Undergraduate News &

Alumni Deaths

7

ASA & SSSP Conference

Presentations

8

SSSP & ESS Conference

Presentations

9

ESS Conference Presenta-

tions Continued

10

BA & Ph.D. Alumni News 11

Fall 2016 Newsletter Volume 10, Issue 1

Edwin Ackerman

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Sociology

University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests

Political Sociology

Historical Sociology

“Illegal” Immigration

Nazanin Shahrokni

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Sociology

University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests

Gender

Urban Studies

Middle East Studies

Ning Zhan

Laiwa, China

BA, Chinese

University of Petroleum

MA, Journalism

Zhejiang University

Ph.D., Communication

Zhejiang University

Syracuse University Fellowship

Mehdi Nejatbakhsh

Esfahan, Iran

BA, Urban Planning

University of Tehran

MS, Urban Studies

University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee

Welcome New Graduate Students

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Jordan Dorsey

Palmyra, VA

BA, Sociology

Christopher Newport University

Nodira Azizova

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

MA, Journalism

Tashkent University

Timothy Bryant

Syracuse, NY

BS, Public Health

Syracuse University

Amra Kandic

Guilford, CT

BS, Biology & Psychology

UCONN

MA, Globalization

Dartmouth College

has exemplary service to the Syracuse

community.

Gretchen received this year’s Daniel

Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching

and Research. The award was

presented at the school’s annual

Graduate Convocation Ceremony and

is “the most valued recognition earned

by a junior Maxwell faculty member”

according to then Dean James B.

Steinberg.

Gretchen’s scholarship is a model of

engaged research in which serious

social scientific inquiry is driven by a

principled dedication to social justice.

Her areas of focus are low-wage work,

urban poverty, and punishment. She is

the founding member of the Labor

Studies Working Group in Maxwell and

New PhD Graduate—Kasturi Gupta

Gretchen Purser Moynihan Award Recipient

Dean David Van Slyke appointed

Andrew London associate dean for

finance and administration. Carol

Faulkner from History will be the

associate dean for academic affairs.

These appointments are a result of

Michael Wasylenko’s plans to

conclude his term as senior associate

dean and return as professor in the

Economics Department. The

appointments take affect on January

1, 2017 for a 3 year term. In his new

position Andrew will oversee the

School’s financial and budget

operations, inclusive of graduate

student funding, human resources

related to School and department

staffing levels, staff personnel

matters, facilities and space

administration, information and

computing technology, career

services, and research.

CONGRATULATIONS ANDREW!

Kasturi Gupta defended her

dissertation and received an August

degree.

Her title is “The Politics of Corporate

Social Responsibility in Contemporary

India.”

Jackie Orr is her chair and the

committee consisted of Susan Wadley,

Beverly Mullings, Susan Borker and

Subho Basu.

Kasturi is the Program Manager and

Registrar of the South Asian Studies

Council at Yale University.

Andrew London Named Associate Dean

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FACULTY NEWS Page 4

“Development of Discrete Choice

Experiment for Uptake of HIV Pre-

Exposure Prophylaxis.”

Andrew was elected the American

Sociological Association’s Medical

Sociology Section’s Nominations

Committee Chair-Elect.

Amy Lutz was recently interviewed by

Univision Noticias about her work on

Immigrants in the military.

Gretchen Purser was interviewed for

and featured in a news article in the

Syracuse New Times about health and

safety issues in the temp industry and

workers’ memorial day.

Merril Silverstein was quoted in a

Clarksville online story “Frazier Allen:

Five Tips for First-Time Grandparents.”

He was also elected to chair the

Behavioral and Social Sciences

section of the Gerontological Society

of America.

Madonna Harrington Meyer has been

awarded the Mathilda White Riley

Distinguished Scholar Award by the

American Sociological Association’s

Section on Aging and the Life Course.

The award was presented at the ASA

annual meeting in Seattle in August.

Her book Grandmothers at Work was

featured in a write up by Richard

Eisenberg on Next Avenue and was

then picked up by Forbes as well.

Madonna was awarded a grant from

the Maxwell Citizenship Initiative to

develop a new course that focuses on

US Social Policy and Citizenship.

Jennifer Karas Montez was appointed

as a “Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar

in Aging Studies” by the Maxwell

School. The award recognizes her

excellent contributions to the field of

Aging Studies.

Jennifer was interviewed by the BBC on

the article “What’s Killing White

American Women.” She was then

featured on an NPR story on

Marketplace that referenced this BBC

interview. Her article “Explaining

Inequalities in Women’s Mortality

between U.S. States” was featured in

the New York Times. She was also just

elected to a two-year term as the Chair

of the Youth, Aging, and Life Course

Division of the Society for the Study of

Social Problems.

Prema Kurien was named a “Robert

McClure Faculty Scholar” from the

Maxwell School for the 2016-17

academic year for teaching the MAX

123 Course. She was also elected

Chair-Elect of the Asia and Asian

American section of the American

Sociological Association.

Andrew London and his colleagues at

the University of Rochester and SUNY

Upstate have received an award from

NIH for the project entitled

FACULTY PRESENTATIONS

Louis Kriesberg presented “Building

an Infrastructure for Peace” for

PARCC’s Conversations in Conflict

Studies program in Maxwell.

Gretchen Purser presented her paper

“Work as unto the Lord: Enhancing

Employability in an Evangelical Job-

Readiness Program” co-authored with

Geography Ph.D. student Brian

Hennigan at the International

Sociological Association’s Conference

in Vienna, and at the Association for

the Sociology of Religion’s conference

in Seattle, WA. At that same

conference she presented as a Critic

on an Author-Meets-Critics panel for

Bill Mirola’s book, “Redeeming Time:

Protestantism and Chicago’s Eight-

Hour Movement, 1866-1912.”

Rebecca Schewe presented “Citizen

Science or Stakeholder Science?

Using Citizen Science to Engage with

Diverse Stakeholders in the Gulf Coast

Fisheries” for SUNY ESF’s

Environmental Studies Colloquium

Series

Becky also presented “Why Don’t They

Just Change? Contract Farming,

Informational Influence, and Barriers

to Agricultural Climate Change

Mitigation” for Maxwell’s CPR Seminar

Series.

Jennifer Karas Montez, with

Martikainen, Remes, & Avendano,

“Work-Family Context and the

Longevity Disadvantage of U.S.

Women.” Social Forces

Jennifer Karas Montez, with Friedman,

“Educational Attainment and Health:

Under What Conditions is the

Association Casual?,” Social Science

& Medicine

Jennifer Karas Montez, with Friedman

“Educational Attainment and Adult

Health: Contextualizing Causality,”

Special Issue of Social Science &

Medicine

Jackie Orr, “Enchanting Catastrophe:

Magical Subrealism and BP’s

Macondo,” Catalyst: Feminism,

Theory, Technoscience

Gretchen Purser, Review of

“Consuming Work: Youth Labor in

America” by Yasemin Besen-Cassino,

Contemporary Sociology

Madonna Harrington Meyer,

Grandparenting in the United States,

edited by Madonna and Ph.D. student

Ynesse Abdul-Malak, Baywood Society

and Aging Series. The book includes

chapters by Madonna, Ynesse and

Merril Silverstein.

Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ph.D.

student Elizabeth Daniele, co-editors,

Changes, Challenges, and Solutions,

Praeger Publisher. The book includes

chapters by Madonna and Elizabeth

along with Janet Wilmoth, Merril

Silverstein, Andrew London, Ynesse

Abdul-Malak, Rebecca Wang, and

Jeanette Zoeckler.

Louis Kriesberg, Pioneer in Peace and

Constructive Conflict Resolution

Studies, Springer Publishers. Lou also

had an op-ed published in Huffington

Post, “The GOP’s Unreasonable

Resistance to Obama Only Enhances

His Legacy” and an op-ed in The Wire

titled “Obama, The Conflict Resolution

President?”

Andrew London, with Scott Landes,

“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder and Adult Mortality,”

Preventive Medicine

Andrew London, with Len Lopoo,

“Household Crowding During

Childhood and Long-Term Education

Outcomes,” Demography

Andrew London, “Veterans and the Life

Course” chapter in Gerontology:

Changes, Challenges, and Solutions,

Praeger Publisher

Amy Lutz, with Lakshmi Jayaram,

“Getting the Homework Done: Social

Class and Parents’ Relationship to

Homework,” International Journal of

Education and Social Sciences

Yingyi Ma, “Is the Grass Greener on the

Other Side of the Pacific?” ASA

Contexts

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

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on Diaspora & International

Development in New Delhi, India.

Jinpu Wang participated on a panel

for the Moynihan Institute’s Maxwell

African Scholars Union—Spotlight on

Africa: 2016 Summer Research

Grants. Jinpu’s project is Chinese

Immigrants in Ghana.

Yan Liu presented “Borrowing the

Dragon’s Might?: New Chinese

Immigrants in the Eastern Caribbean”

for the Moynihan Institute of Global

Affairs East Asia Program.

Jenna Sikka presented “Return

Migration of the Indian Diaspora: The

Relationship Between Gender and Self

Silencing in Narratives of Coming

Home” at the International Conference

GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

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Andrew London is his chair. Will also

received a $2500 research grant from

the 10th Decade Project on Work,

Labor, and Citizenship for his project

“Militarizing Social Reproduction: Re-

conceptualizing Work, Military

Families and Spouses, and the Military

Spouse Role.”

Tracy Vargas was awarded an

Outstanding TA Award from the

Graduate School. She also received a

$2500 grant from the 10th Decade

Project on Work, Labor and Citizenship

for her project “Dangerous Dollars: An

Analysis of Worker Health, Safety, and

Vulnerability in U.S. Dollar Stores.”

Rebecca Wang was elected to a two-

year term as a student representative

to the American Sociological

Association’s Section on Aging and

the Life Course Council.

Adrienne Atterberry has won a

Fulbright Award for 2016-17 and will

spend the time in India for her

research.

Marcus Bell was awarded the

Sociology Department Dissertation

Fellowship for 2016-17.

Aaron Blasyak passed his

comprehensive exams. Jackie Orr is

his chair.

Timothy Bryant was awarded the 2016

UPCEA Mid Atlantic Region

Outstanding Continuing Education

Student Award. Tim is a first year

student in our Ph.D. program.

Jessica Hausauer accepted the

position of program manager for the

Minnesota Network of Hospice and

Palliative Care in St. Paul, MN. Jessica

is working on her dissertation.

Aaron Hoy passed his dissertation

proposal defense and is now ABD.

Andrew London is his chair. He also

received a grant from the Maxwell

Citizenship Initiative to support his

dissertation work. He was featured in

Syracuse University News answering

questions on the One-Year Anniversary

of Nationwide Marriage Equality.

Athena Last received a paid Somers

Aging and Long-Term Care Internship

from the National Academy of Social

Insurance . It is designed to recognize

qualified students and provide them

with a challenging learning

experience.

Yan Liu passed his dissertation

proposal defense and is now ABD.

Cecilia Green is his chair.

Will Oliver passed his dissertation

proposal defense and is now ABD.

Elizabeth Daniele, “Fostering Student

Community While Respecting

Diversity, Inclusion, and Individual

Rights: A Case Study,” College

Student Affairs Leadership

Liz did a book review in Education

Review on “Abriendo Puertas,

Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors,

Closing Wounds) : Latinas/os Finding

Work-Life Balance in Academia.”

STUDENT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Alexis Rinck from Pacifica, CA was

selected as a 2016-17 Remembrance

Scholar.

Estephany Hinojosa was accepted into

the Ronald E. McNair Scholars

Program.

Scotland. It was awarded on the basis

of distinguished academic

achievement, citizenship, and service

to the community.

Rachel Brown-Weinstock was named a

senior class marshal for the Class of

2017 by the Division of Student

Affairs. She and Nedda Sarshar will

carry the 2017 banner to open SU’s

163rd Commencement ceremony on

Sunday May 14, 2017. Rachel is a

native of Gloversville, NY. She is

majoring in Sociology, Policy Studies,

and Citizenship & Civic Engagement.

She is in the Renee Crown University

Honors Program and a Coronat

Scholarship recipient.

Rachel is co-president and co-founder

of the Syracuse Youth Development

Council, a networking organization for

student-run service programs that

aims to raise awareness about issues

that affect Syracuse youth.

Her Honors Program Capstone Project

in Sociology was titled “It’s

Bittersweet: Examining the Potential

for Class-Unique Typologies of

Community Attachment.” The poster

for this project won the poster award

at the Rural Sociological Society’s

Annual Meeting.

Rachel was also chosen to be one of

35 2016-17 Remembrance Scholars.

This scholarship was founded as a

tribute to-and means of remembering

the 35 students who were killed in the

December 21,1988 bombing of Pan

Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,

Carol Friedbauer Davison ‘48 BA

Caroline Smith Grant ‘48 BA

John N. Danielson ‘52 BA

Virginia Joyce Horton ‘52 BA

Joan Brownell Bacall ‘55 BA

Elaine Macomber Larsen ‘57 BA

UNDERGRADUATE NEWS

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Alumni Deaths

Doris Flaxman Gould ‘62 BA

Alexander L. Searl ‘66 BA

Ruth Ann Piccoli Pleffer ‘10 BA

ASA CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

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Merril Silverstein presented “Religious

Discordance Between Adult Children

and their Parents: Consequences for

Intergenerational Solidarity Across

Several Decades” with Woosang

Hwang and Maria Brown.

Graduate Student Presentations

Jessica Hausauer presented “The Role

of Unemployment, Politics, Policy

Choice, and Race on TANF Case

Closure Sanctions.”

Elizabeth Mount presented “Human

Rights and Hijra Criminalization in

South India.”

Rebecca Wang presented “Life Course

Influences on Late-life Disability in

Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Older

Adults in the United States.”

Alumna Presentation

Amy Best ‘98 was the Session

Organizer and Presider of the Section

on Sociology of Sex and Gender Paper

Session.

The American Sociological

Association’s Annual Meeting,

Rethinking Social Movements: Can

Changing the Conversation Change

the World?, took place August 20-23

in Seattle, WA. Several faculty

members, graduate students and

alumni presented.

Faculty Presentations

Madonna Harrington Meyer was the

Session Organizer and Presider for the

Section on Aging and the Life Course

Paper Session.

Jennifer Karas Montez was the

Presider of the Regular Session,

Population Health, and the Table

Presider at the Discourses of

Womanhood Across the Life Cycle.

Andrew London presented with others

“Plantations and Parasites:

Development, Disease, and Fertility

Differentials in Early Twentieth Century

American South .” He also presented

“The Influence of Attention Deficit

Hyperactivity Disorder on Adult

Mortality and Morbidity” with Scott

Landes. He was a Session Organizer

for the Section on Aging and the Life

Course Refereed Roundtable Session.

Amy Lutz presented with others

“Integration Through Education?

Aspirations, Experiences, and

Opportunities among Two Second

Generations.”

Yingyi Ma was the Table Presider for

the Roundtable Session, Sociology of

Education across Greater China. She

was also the Session Organizer for the

Regular Session, Asians and Asian

Americans.

Rebecca Schewe presented “Who

Works Here? Non-Family Labor and

Immigrant Labor on U.S. Dairy Farms”

with Ph.D. student Bernadette White.

She also presented “Why Don’t They

Just Change? Contract Farming,

Informational Influence, and Barriers

to Agricultural Climate Change

Migration” with Diana Stuart.

SSSP CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

The Society for the Study of Social

Problems Annual Meeting,

Globalizing Social Problems, took

place in Seattle, WA August 19-

21. Several faculty members,

graduate students and alumni

presented.

Faculty Presentations

Marj DeVault was the Organizer,

Presider and Discussant at the

Session Exploring Children’s

Health and Abilities with

Institutional Ethnography:

Professionals’ and Mothers’

Knowledge and Work.

Andrew London was the Organizer

and Presider of the Thematic

Session, Transitioning to Adulthood

Across the Globe. He was also the

Organizer and Presider of the

Session, Critical Dialogue : New

Directions in Research on Military

Service, Aging, and the Life Course.

ESS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Scholarship Grounded in the

Community- Scholarship, Activism,

and Community Research.

Fumi Showers ‘13 was the Organizer

and Presider of the Thematic

Session, Care Work and Precarious

Labor in the Global Economy.

Linda Waldron ‘02 was one of the

Organizers and the Presider of the

Session, Educational Problems:

Policy, Curriculum and Reform.

Abbey Willis, MA ‘11 presented with

others, “State Projects,

Heteronormativity, and the Social

Construction of Families: The

Scarborough Eleven.”

Amy Lutz presented “Immigrants in the

Military.”

Yingyi Ma was the Discussant for the

Thematic Session, Transitioning to

Adulthood Across the Globe.

Rebecca Schewe presented

“Structural Barriers to a Climate

Change Ethic in US Agriculture” with

Diana Stuart.

Graduate Student Presentations

Ynesse Abdul-Malak presented

“Emotional Health Impact of Invisible

Care Work: Grandparenting Children

with Disabilities” with Madonna

Harrington Meyer.

Liz Mount presented “Class and the

Professionalization of ‘Community’

Activists in South India.”

Alumni Presentations

Lauren Eastwood ‘02 was the

Organizer of the Thematic Session,

Critical Dialogue: “Connecting the

Dots” in Institutional Ethnographic

Research, and presented “From

Wyoming to Paris: The Globalization of

Energy Infrastructure Battles.” She

also presented “Accounting for

Whom? Enforcing the Gains of Social

Movements” with Marj DeVault.

Gina Petonito ‘92 presented

“Constructing Enemies Within, Then

and Now: American Japanese of the

1940’s and American Muslims of the

Present Day.”

Frank Ridzi ‘03 was the Organizer of

the Session, Critical Dialogue:

Rebecca Schewe was a Panelist on

the Author Meets Critics: Barbara Katz

Rothman, “A Bun in the Oven: How the

Food and Birth Movements Resist

Industrialization.” She also presented

“Labor Relations on US Dairy Farms

and their Implications for

Sustainability.”

Graduate Student Presentations

Jacob Bartholomew presented

“Debunking the Myth of ‘White

The Eastern Sociological Society’s

Annual Meeting, My Day Job: Politics

and Pedagogy in Academia, was held

March 17-20 in Boston. Several

faculty members, graduate students

and alumni presented.

Faculty Presentations

Marj DeVault was a Panelist on Author

Meets Critics: Dave Grazian,

“American Zoo.” She was the

Organizer of Author Meets Critics:

Barbara Katz Rothman, “A Bun in the

Oven: How the Food and Birth

Movements Resist Industrialization.”

Amy Lutz was a Presider at the Mini-

Conference on Military Sociology X:

International Perspectives. She

presented “Who Joins the Military in

the Post 9/11 Era.”

Arthur Paris was a panelist on the

Author Meets Critics: Terry Williams

and Trevor B. Milton, “The Con Men:

Hustling in New York City.”

SSSP Conference Presentations, Continued

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ESS Conference Presentations, Continued

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Building Alliances in Healthcare.” She

also presented “Behind the Bump:

Women’s Decision Making and

Expectations of Assisted

Reproduction” with Giavanna O’Neil.

Don Sawyer ‘13 presented “’Ain’t No

Love in the Heart of the City’: Black

Males, Love, and Research.”

Fumi Showers ‘13 presented

“Enduring Everyday Slights, Insults,

and Indignities on the Job: Racial

Microaggressions and the West

African Immigrant Experience” with

Mindelyn Buford II.

Alecea Standlee ‘12 presented

“Digital Ethnography and Youth

Culture: Methodological Techniques

and Ethical Dilemmas.”

Abbey Willis MA ‘11 presented

“Queering Place: Using the Classroom

to Describe the World.”

Ignorance’- White College Student

Conceptions of Race.”

Marcus Bell presented “Becoming

White: Examining the Impact of

Racialized Space on White Identity

Formation.”

Cassie Dutton presented “The (In)

Visibility of Non-Professional Indian

Immigrants in the Labor Market.”

James Dalton Stevens presented

“Exploring Congenital Physical

Disability: Understanding the Lived

Experience of the Gender Socialization

Process in Male Disabled Bodies.”

Jinpu Wang presented “Education of

Left-Behind Children in Southwest

China—Evidence from Seven Villages

in Sichuan Province.”

Wencheng Zhang presented

“Children’s Siblings Network and the

Parental Caregiving Task in China.”

Alumni Presentations

Glenda Gross ‘13 presented

“Corporatized Classrooms,

Progressive Pedagogies: Feminist

Educators’ Teaching Work in

Academe” and was a Presider at the

Discussion Session: Getting a Day Job

in a Community College.

Harry Murray ‘87 presented “Judicial

Response to Anti-Drone Protests at

Hancock National Guard Base: Justice,

Oppression, or Flooding the Courts.”

Cheryl Nazarian Souza ’04 presented

“’I Play Golf with my Kids, Not my

Colleagues’: Men and Women

Politicians and Unpaid Work as a

Choice?”

Wendy Parker ‘10 presented “Archives

of the Women’s Health Movement and

the Boston Women’s Health Collective:

Evidence of Virtues for Seeking and

Derek Bryant ‘15 has a new job as Housing Intake Specialist at Breaking Ground (formerly Common Ground) in New

York City.

Richard Corrigan ‘68 published his first novel, Krystal Vision in the Krystal Vibration Series, Zharmae Publishing Press.

Joseph Stray ‘14 has been selected to join the Mike Tyson Boxing and Fitness Academy as a trainer. He was one of 15

selected from a pool of 3000 applicants. At SU Joseph was the founder of the University’s Boxing Club.

Margaret Abraham ‘89, professor of Sociology at Hofstra University, is the President of the International Sociological

Association. At the ISA conference in Vienna in July she gave a powerful speech about the need for sociologists to get

involved in the pressing issues of today. In particular, she mentioned the anti-immigrant mood in Western countries,

religious fundamentalism, and the rise of xenophobic parties and leaders around the world.

Payal Banerjee ‘09 assistant professor of Sociology, won the Kathleen Compton Sherrerd ‘54 and John J.F. Sherrerd

Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Smith College. Her research focuses on globalization, migration, and the

centrality of state policies in shaping the structures of displacement and labor incorporation.

Medani Bhandari ‘12 works in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment at the Arabian Gulf University,

College of Graduate Studies, Manama-Kingdom of Bahrain.

Katherine Gregory ‘03 is an assistant professor of Health and Human Services at the NYC College of Technology/

CUNY. She teaches healthcare administration courses within the Health Services Administration program.

Ian Lapp ‘00 has been named dean of the Undergraduate School at Babson College, a business school in Wellesley,

MA.

James McIntosh ’70 retired June 30th after 50 years at Lehigh University in the Department of Sociology and

Anthropology.

Byeong-Chul Park ‘95 was promoted to professor at Penn State Brandywine’s Human Development and Family

Studies Department. One of Park’s major research interests is suicidal behavior, which has been an emerging public

health issue in many Pacific-rim countries.

Carrie Roseamelia ‘15 is the program administrator at Upstate Medical University’s Department of Family Medicine.

Gokhan Savas ‘13 published “Understanding Gender and Race Differences in High School Achievement in the United

States” American Journal of Educational Research.

Don Sawyer ‘13 was featured in an article in the Quinnipiac University Magazine, “Street Talk, Professor Uses Hip-Hop

to Reach at-Risk High School Students” about his work in New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School. Don says “My

program was all about connecting with, challenging, supporting and loving the students who at times in school seem

like they existed in a space beyond love’s reach.”

Catherine (Kay) Valentine ‘78 has 2 recent publications: The Kaleidoscope of Gender, fifth edition, Sage co-edited

with Joan Spade and Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism ,VUP, co-edited with Donna King.

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