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.