Cinzia Solari

Wellesley High School Writer: Cinzia Solari (1993)

            Cinzia is an Associate Professor of Sociology at UMass Boston where she teaches courses on gender, globalization, migration, classical sociological theory, and qualitative methods. Her current grant-funded research focuses on nonbinary and transgender students to better understand how they navigate high school. She is also completing a book manuscript with co-author Smitha Radhakrishnan for Polity Press called: The Gender Order of Neoliberalism.

            Her first book, On the Shoulders of Grandmothers: Gender, Migration, and Post-Soviet Nation-State Building, won the 2019 Best (Komarovsky) Book Award of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic work with migrant grandmothers caring for the elderly in Italy and California and their adult children in Ukraine, Shoulders of Grandmothers shows that post-Soviet Ukrainian nation-state-building is occurring transnationally.