October, 2016 | Sociology and Anthropology Updates

Professor Russo’s new article is the cover feature in Race and Class.

Our new SOAN colleague, Prof. Chandra Russo, has the cover article in the newest issue of Race and Class. Prof Russo’s article, “Witness Against Torture, Guantánamo and solidarity as resistance,” focuses on the group Witness Against Torture, a community that has been calling for the closure of the Guantánamo Prison since 2005. Witness Against Torture is one of three social movement organizations that Prof Russo has studied as part of a larger project examining activism in resistance to US security policies. Prof Russo notes that while her article focuses on how Witness Against Torture is working to close Guantánamo, she also analyzes how they joined with the Black Lives Matter movement during January of 2015 to link militarism and imprisonment abroad to policing and incarceration within the US interior. Congratulations to Prof. Russo on this important new publication!

SOAN Professor Alicia Simmons speaking on the topic of 21st century media.

This post submitted by SOAN Professor Chandra Russo.

On September 30, sociology professor Alicia Simmons joined an esteemed cohort of Colgate alumni working at CBS, The Huffington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Moderated by Tim Byrnes, Charles A. Dana Professor of political science, panelists had a vibrant and timely conversation about the role of the media in American civic life. Audience members at the panel, part of the events leading up to Colgate President Brian Casey’s inauguration, included eager faculty, students, alumni, Hamilton residents and Casey himself. Panelists addressed challenges such as the increased polarization of political thought in American society, the lack of diversity in newsrooms, and the obligations of journalists. These matters feel ever more urgent six weeks before the 2016 presidential election, in which, as panelist Howard Fineman described, “one candidate challenges everything that we thought we knew about the American political process.”

SOAN Professor Chandra Russo publishes feature article in the journal Race and Class

SOAN Professor Alicia Simmons featured in Inauguration Week Panel on 21st Century Media

This post submitted by SOAN Professor Chandra Russo.