Wednesday, April 28 2021 at 5:00pm MDT
Join us for a live Colorado College Alumni/Parent Book Club discussion of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, with author and alum Katherine E. Standefer ’07. On each evening of the series, Standefer will be in conversation with a different set of Colorado College professors and/or distinguished alumni, offering an interactive virtual conversation.
Tonight Kati is in conversation with Professors Cayce Hughes (Sociology), Phoebe Lostroh (Molecular Biology), and Tomi-Ann Roberts (Psychology).
Cayce Hughes is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado College. He was recently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rice University and received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago, a Master's in Public Health from Temple University, and a Bachelor's in Sociology from New College of Florida. His current book project, Privacy, Poverty, and Punishment: How Surveillance in the Social Safety Net Penalizes Poor Black Mothers (under contract with University of California Press), examines how low-income, Black mothers in Houston, Texas, navigate privacy when they seek poverty assistance from an increasingly surveillance-centered safety net. His work is driven by a central commitment to understanding the causes and consequences of social inequality and how people make sense of and respond to structural disadvantage. His research interests include urban poverty, social inequalities, privacy and surveillance, crime/punishment, and health.
Phoebe Lostroh (2001-2003 Post-doctoral researcher (NIH-funded), Department of Microbioogy, Iowa, IA 52242; 2001 Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard University; 1994 B.A., Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; 1990 I.B., United World College of the American West) is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Tomi-Ann Roberts’ (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990; B.A., Smith College, 1985) areas of research interest are the social psychology of emotion, gender, and the body; psychological consequences of the sexual objectification of women and girls; gender differences in self-evaluation, self-conscious emotions, perceptions of bodily states; philosophy of emotions; psychological components of women's reproductive health; positive psychology of mirth, enjoyment, awe and wonder.
