Helene D. Grogan

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

840 Thompson Hall, Amherst, MA 01003

 Education

2027 (expected) Ph.D. Sociology

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

2023 M.A. Sociology

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

1994 B.S. Physics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Professional Experience

Fall 2020 - Summer 2022 Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Food, Activity, Screens and Teens (FAST) Study

Supervisor: James Kitts

Summers 2020, 2021 Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Supervisor: Amy Schalet

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Grader: Social Problems, Criminology

Publications

Kitts, James, Helene Grogan and Kevin Lewis. 2023. “Social Networks and Computational Social Science.” Pp. 44-54 in The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Second Edition, edited by J. McLevey, J. Scott, and P.J. Carrington. NY: Sage.

Presentations

Grogan, Helene D. 2023. “Prevention of What? Competing Biological Citizenship Claims and the Biopolitics of Autism Prevention.” Accepted for presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Disability in Society Roundtable 2: Professional Conceptions, Philadelphia, PA. August 19.

Grogan, Helene D. 2021. “Looking Down the Rabbit Hole: Sense-Making and QAnon.” Poster presented at the UMass Amherst DACSS Student Research Symposium, Amherst, MA, August 26.

      Poster awarded $100 commendation for “best use of methods for the data.”

Grogan, Helene D. 2019. “Supporting Trans Autistic People.” Poster presented at the Greenfield Community College Student Research Symposium, Greenfield, MA, May 3.

 Honors & Awards

2023 Best Student Paper Award, ASA Disability in Society section 

2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2021 UMass Amherst Campus Climate Improvement Grant, AY 21-22


Project: Disability Culture and Community Speaker Series

2019 UMass Amherst SBS/Sociology Lincoln Fellowship

Invited Talks & Panels

October 2021, Time Management in Graduate School

September 2022 UMass Sociology First-Year ProSeminar

August 2021 Student Experience Panel

UMass Graduate Student Orientation

May 2021 NSF GRFP Info Session

UMass Office of Professional Development

April 2019 In Our Own Voices: Neurodiversity Panel

Greenfield Community College Neurodiversity Club

Memberships & Service

2019 - Present American Sociological Association

Sections: Disability in Society; Mathematical Sociology; Medical Sociology;
Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Sociology of Religion

2019 - Present UMass Amherst Sociology Graduate Student Association

Equity & Social Justice Committee (2019-2020)

Secretary (2020-2021)

Graduate Program Committee (2021-2023)

 Research Interests

Autism, disability, biopolitics, science, knowledge, text analysis, networks, politics, religion.

 Software/Programming Languages