Faculty Profile

Mary Nell Trautner

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Sociology
trautner@buffalo.edu

Education:

PhD, Sociology, University of Arizona, 2006

Professional experience:

Associate Professor, Sociology, University at Buffalo

What mentoring means to me:

Happy to form a relationship to discuss academic issues. I have been involved with several mentoring programs in the professional associations to which I belong.

Topics I am willing to discuss with students:

Minority Experiences

Being a woman and related discrimination.

Sexual and/or gender minority status and related discrimination.

Academic Culture

Dealing with politics and conflict with faculty or peers.

Decoding and demystifying academic culture and norms.

Uncertainty about staying in grad school.