Two faculty members and a recent graduate shared their expertise at the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Transformation & Repair: Worldmaking in Contexts of Struggle and Constraint.”
Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas participated in an Author Meets Critics event where the discussion focused on her 2025 book The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy, published by Columbia University Press. Kucinskas said the discussants made for “an impressive line-up” that featured a former civil servant and the Chair of ASA political sociology, Josh Pacewicz (Brown University), along with Ruth Braunstein (Johns Hopkins University), Michael Rosino (Molloy University), and Caroline Lee (Lafayette College).
Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephanie Dhuman and Tillie Germain ’25 were members of a panel focused on “Housing, Displacement, and Inequality,” and discussed “‘So What Chance, What Opportunities Do We Have?’ Homeowners Associations as Racialized Organizations,” their co-authored paper published by Sociology Compass earlier this year.
Posted March 27, 2026
