Reece Torres

SUNY PRODiG Fellow
Bailey 212
(585) 245-6529
rtorres@geneseo.edu
he/him/his

Reece Torres joined the Sociology Department faculty in 2023 as a SUNY PRODiG fellow.

Reece Torres

Office hours

Office Hours: M&W 10:00am-11:00am or by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 2024 Ph.D., Sociology, Syracuse University
    • Dissertation: Leaning In: Diversity Work and Campus Culture at a Quaker Prep School
    • Committee: Edwin Ackerman, Barbara Applebaum, Dawn Dow, Sean Drake, Prema Kurien (Chair)

    2014 M.A., Sociology, Syracuse University

    2012 B.A., Sociology and Africana Studies (Cum Laude), Dickinson College

Publications

  • Hoy, Aaron, Marcus Bell, Selene Cammer-Bechtold and Mauricio T. Torres. 2018. "Neoliberalism and the sometimes-reluctant dissent of working-class graduate students.” in On the Borders of the Academy: Challenges and Strategies for First Generation Graduate Students and Faculty., edited by A. Standlee. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Graduate School Press

  • Torres, Mauricio T., Mary Cannito-Coville and Dalia Rodriguez. 2017. "Trayvon Revisited: Race, Fear, and Affect in the Death of Trayvon Martin." Sociological Forum 32(S1):1112-1126. doi: 10.1111/socf.12369.

Interests

  • Elite education
  • Social justice
  • Wrestling

Classes

  • AMST 200: Race, Prisons and Policing

    Recent social movements have highlighted the disproportionate effects of policing and imprisonment on communities of color in the United States. This interdisciplinary course introduces students to these issues of inequality and social justice in the current US context. This course focuses on how policing and prisons, past and present, are deeply imbricated with racial inequality, while also considering how other structural inequalities (e.g. citizenship/migration status, class, gender, sexuality) shape experiences of criminalization and justice. Students will be exposed to multiple humanities, social science, and activist perspectives on these issues.

  • SOCL 102: Intro Soc Prob & Public Policy

    Contemporary social problems, including macro-problems (e.g., the economy, politics, inequality), micro-problems (e.g., crime, health care), and the relationship between the two are studied. Emphasis is on understanding both causes and symptoms of contemporary social problems.