Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Graduating student Tara Daniel has curated a creative and meaningful online art exhibit to give voice to Lorain County high school students who are victims of sexual assault, and the result is powerful and moving. Learn more about Daniel and her work on the exhibit in this week's student…

WEWS: Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed proposed legislation aimed at preventing local governments from recouping the cost of calling 911 for emergency services. “Charging people for…

Award-winning author to present at university’s fall convocation The Fortunes, wrote book critic Michael Schaub in his 2016 review for NPR, “is a stunning look at what it means to be Chinese, what it means to be American and what it means to be a person navigating the strands of identity, the…

Braveheart Gillani, a doctoral student at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently released a new publication about “Telehealth in Trans and Gender Diverse Communities: the Impact of COVID-19,” published by Springer Link in April 2022. Gillani worked alongside MetroHealth physician…

Tyrone C. Hamler, a doctoral student in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ PhD in Social Welfare program, was named a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award from his alma mater, University of Cincinnati. Hamler will receive the honor from University of…

Dr. Adrianne M. Fletcher, assistant professor and assistant dean of diversity and inclusion, will be taking a leave of absence from Case Western Reserve University to assume a government role with the Supreme Court of Ohio. Effective May 1, she will become the court’s first director of diversity,…

Programs: JD, MSW Zora Raglow-DeFranco From an early age, Zora Raglow-DeFranco has wanted to help others—and she’s focused on doing so through social justice. She recalls attending protests with her father and learning about social services from her mother, the chief executive officer of a…

Alex Dorman, a doctoral student at the Mandel School and a research and policy analyst at The Center for Community Solutions, wrote a blog about the digital divide in Ohio. This story appeared in The Daily on April 15, 2022.

Chicago Crusader: Amy T. Khare, research assistant professor and research director at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed her new study documenting more than a decade of investment in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood by Preservation of Affordable Housing. Read the article

The Department of Sociology will host Beth Richie, distinguished professor of Black studies and head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago, for a presentation Friday, April 8, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The event will take place in room 115 of the…