Frances Moulder
Special Lecturer
& UCS Program Liaison in Torrington
Contact:
(860)626-6800
Frances.moulder@uconn.edu
Email Contact Preferred
Office Locations:
Torrington Campus
Mailing Address
University of Connecticut
855 University Drive
Torrington, CT 06790
Office Hours
By appointment
Frances Moulder was drawn to sociology because the field seemed to have a tradition of contributing to movements for a better world. She earned a B.A. in Sociology-Anthropology at Wagner College and Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia University. She has lived and worked in a number of cities, suburbs, and rural areas of the South, Northeast, and California. In addition to college teaching and research, she has also worked as an educator and organizer in community organizations serving low-income communities. A common theme in her teaching has been to connect campus to community, by supporting student fieldwork, internship experiences, service learning projects, and by bringing community speakers to campus. She has won two service awards from the Connecticut Department of Higher Education, one for a project collecting books to send to South Africa, another for developing a new course in community-based research. Another theme has been to connect the local to the global, by encouraging students to see local conditions and issues in historical and world perspective. She has published two books related to this theme: Japan, China and the Modern World Economy, and Social Problems of the Modern World: A Reader. A new area of interest is visual sociology, especially the use of photographic images to enhance sociological insights. She is looking forward to incorporate this into her teaching.
Specialization
Social problems, global sociology, race and ethnicity, social stratification, and visual sociology
Courses Offered in Academic Year 2006/2007