Assistant Professor
Dr. Nenga earned her B.A. from Simon's Rock College (Great Barrington, MA) in 1992, where she was the college's first ever graduate in Women's Studies. Dr. Nenga received an M.A. in Women Studies from San Francisco State University in 1997 and her PhD in Sociology from Indiana University in 2004. Dr. Nenga conducts research in the sociology of children and youth and the lived experience of social class. Currently, she is working on several articles and a book manuscript using data from her research project on high school and college students' experiences of volunteer work. In addition, she is working with student Lauren Cox ('08) on an ethnographic investigation of an after school program for middle school students.
Course responsibilities at Southwestern: Social Problems; Conformity, Deviance and Identity; Social Class in the U.S.; Childhood and Adolescence.