People in Sociology - Graduate Student

Fraser Hall

Emily Kennedy

PhD Program
Email: ejkennedy@ku.edu

Emily Kennedy is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Kansas with research interests in education, gender, sexualities, and technology. She is currently working on her ASD in Cultural Sociology. She is also working on a project that examines the impact that quality childcare has on the Lawrence, KS workforce with Prof. Donna Ginther, in the Department of Economics. Emily has a B.A. in English from California State University at Fresno, and she attended some graduate school at San Francisco State University. She is currently a full time Project Coordinator at the KU Institute for Policy & Social Research. At IPSR her job duties include coordinating projects for Prof. Ginther and handling administrative tasks for the Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium (KC-AERC).

 

Areas: Cultural Sociology and Sociology of Gender

MA Thesis Title: "What She Wore: The Dialectics of Personal Style Blogging" defended May 2011

Dissertation Research: will most likely deal with Kindergarten through 12th Grade (K-12) after-school programs and the culture of science in the U.S.

 


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