NEW FACULTY MEMBERS TO JOIN DEPARTMENT
The Department is thrilled to announce the impending appointments of three new faculty members. Joining us from University of Texas-Austin will be Catherine Connell, whose research and teaching focus on the Sociology of Sexualities. Ruha Benjamin will join both the Sociology department and the African American Studies program. She is currently completing a post-doc at UCLA, extending the work she did at UC Berkeley on the intersection of race, science, and medicine. Finally, Japonica Brown-Saracino, who focuses on urban sociology, will be joining us from the University of Loyola Chicago.