Graduate Student Elena van Stee Presents at COVID-19 Workshop

Elena van Stee, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and an Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow, recently presented her talk, “Privileged Dependence, Precarious Autonomy: Pandemic Lessons for Higher Education,” at a workshop about COVID-19 and public policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

She was one of just five early career scholars invited to present. During her talk, she drew from interviews with college students during the lockdowns to offer advice to higher education policymakers and practitioners.