Leadership and Service

 

Kim Price-Glynn

  • I am currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Sociology.  In this role I support UConn sociology’s undergraduate teaching, advising, and curriculum.
  • I also chair the Undergraduate Program’s Teaching Subcommittee. Through collaboration with sociology graduate students, we have organized department-wide teaching workshops for the 2025-26 academic year designed to reach faculty, graduate students, and staff teaching on the Hartford, Stamford, Storrs, and Waterbury campuses.  
  • I serve as faculty advisor to the undergraduate Student Empowerment in Sociology (SES) club.

 

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  • Since 2017, I have been an active member and past co-chair of the Carework Network, an international organization of researchers, policymakers, and advocates involved in various domains of care work. I have held many positions in the Carework Network and this year I will co-chair the Publications Committee and serve on the Leadership Council.
  • In June of 2023, the Carework Network held its third biennial Summit at the University of Costa Rica with over 250 attendees from 30 countries and 6 continents. Every session was bilingual in English and Spanish. In June of 2025, the Carework Network held its 4th Global Carework Summit, “Histories and Futures of Care” at Duke University with 280 participants, including a hybrid bilingual format in English and Spanish, with 130 online participants, from 29 different countries within Africa, Asia, Europe and especially Latin America, alongside longstanding and new participants from North America.Word cloud logo for the Wood Raith Gender Identity Living Trust. The words in the cloud are shades of burgundy, mustard, and brown and include the terms gender, transgender, equality, male, constructionism, identity, female, diversity, feminism and social.
  • From 2018-2025, I co-chaired The Wood/Raith Living Trust with Professors Vicki Magley (Psychology) and Alaina Brenick (HDFS). The Wood/Raith Living Trust is named for Audrey Wood (UConn graduate, class of 1947) and Edeltraut Raith. Wood and Raith generously gifted the University of Connecticut funds for the study of gender identity. Through this trust, we awarded 93 UConn Summer Research Fellowships of $4000-$5000 each to graduate students across the university.
  • In 2020, our work was profiled by Christine Buckley in a UConn Today article, “Gender and Identity: Forging New Paths.”Underlined logo for root2Rise with black text. In place of the i in rise there is a green tree with brown roots extending below the underline.
  • From 2022-2025, I was an active board member of Root2RISE. Root2RISE is a local organization that seeks to shift power to youth and underrepresented voices, to transform and sustain our communities through intentional education, advocacy, and action around people, land, and food.
  • As a board member I participated in monthly meetings and helped organize the group’s annual Community Farm Share.
  • For the October 2025 Community Farm Share, I facilitated a panel discussion with Javil John, and local farmers, educators, and advocates including Theresa Rangel, West Hartford Public Schools Director of Equity Advancement; Kirsten Martin, Professor of Biology from University of Saint Joseph; Leanne Nolan, Hall High School Science Teacher; and Aarvah Quiñonez from The Aasaaska Foundation.

 

UConn Hartford’s Teaching Matters Lab

  • Beginning with its inception in 2024, I have been an active member and participant in the Teaching Matters Lab.
  • The Teaching Matters Lab was founded by Dr. Pallavi V. Limaye from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Lara Chiaverini from the Vergnano Institute for Inclusion in the College of Engineering. The lab was developed in consultation with Dr. Martina Rosenberg and Dr. Andi Kent from UConn’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL).
  • This interdisciplinary group has held a book club and monthly workshops to address issues around best teaching practices, promoting equity in education, fostering student success and engagement, and create community between faculty and staff.
  • Through the Teaching Matters Lab I received summer funding to develop and preside over a teaching tools workshop. I also received funding for a guest speaker to join my Sociology of Carework course in the spring of 2025. We hosted a representative from Hands On Hartford’s Faces of Homelessness Speakers’ Bureau, a program to destigmatize homelessness through conversation and connection.