Social Sciences

News about UB’s social sciences programs, including anthropology, psychology and social work. (see all topics)

  • Policy Brief Focuses on Violent Crime in Buffalo
    3/8/07
    Buffalo has fewer police officers per capita than many other cities in New York and nearby states, a condition reinforced by a 13 percent drop in officers per capita between 2000 and 2005, according to the most recently released Regional Institute Policy Brief, "Violent Crime in the City of Good Neighbors."
  • Quite a Story to Tell: The Remarkable World of Women Athletes
    3/7/07
    There has been a spectacular transformation in women's athletics in the United States over the past century, particularly in the 33 years since the passage of Title IX. When it comes to self-congratulation, however, Susan K. Cahn, Ph.D., associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo and one of the country's top scholars of women's sports history, says, "Not so fast."
  • Expert Criticizes "Tyranny of the Majority" In Community Development
    3/5/07
    Urban planner and researcher Robert Mark Silverman, Ph.D., of the University at Buffalo, is critical of community development projects and processes that serve vested interests while discouraging or denying input to others, including the indigent, poor and working classes who have to live with results.
  • CFA to Present "Spider-Man Unmasked" on April 20
    2/27/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present "Spider-Man Unmasked" at 8 p.m. on April 20 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
  • The Gendered Realm of the Foye Tree
    2/22/07
    Long-held assumptions about sexual identity and gendered behavior have been turned upside down by a groundbreaking new study of the lives, roles and spiritual practices of the Mapuche shamans of southern Chile.
  • Evidence, A Dance Company to perform March 23 in CFA
    2/21/07
    The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present Evidence, A Dance Company at 8 p.m. on March 23 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The company will also be in residence March 5-23.
  • Winter to Present Inaugural Critical Studies Seminar
    2/19/07
    Kari Winter, associate professor in the Department of American Studies, will discuss "From Vermont Abolitionist to Virginia Slaveholder: Benjamin Franklin Prentiss and the Familial Politics of Antebellum America" on Feb. 28 in the inaugural Critical Studies Seminar presented by the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute.
  • Book Examines Reinventing the Ideal of the Black Man
    2/15/07
    A just-published collection of essays, "Progressive Black Masculinities," edited by Athena D. Mutua, associate professor in the University at Buffalo Law School, focuses on reinventing the ideal of the black man, suggesting new models that transcend the cultural racism and violence of the old ideal.
  • New Center Addresses Students' Disruptive Behaviors
    2/15/07
    The School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo has entered into an agreement with the Buffalo Public Schools to provide specialized group treatment and violence-prevention programs to help students who have been suspended return to their regular classrooms.
  • Nevergold Receives State's MLK Humanitarian Award
    2/12/07
    Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., is one of five individuals to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. The award is one of the state's highest honors for humanitarian service and pays tribute to New Yorkers who have made major contributions to human and civil rights.