
- nengas@southwestern.edu
- 512.863.1412
- Mood-Bridwell 308
Sandi Nenga
Professor of Sociology
Expertise
Children and youth; social class; volunteer work and civic engagement; qualitative methods
Dr. Nenga conducts research in the sociology of children and youth, the lived experience of social class, and social aspects of education. She is currently working on a paper with Kathryn Gold Hadley of Hanover College about positive youth development programs for Southeast Asian youth. In addition, Dr. Nenga is studying a college readiness program for first-generation, primarily Latina/o high school students with Mayra Garcia (’11), Whitney Rodriguez Rominger (’11), Susi Contreras (’14) and Isaac Bernal (’13). She also worked with students Lauren Cox (’08) and Tristine Baccam (’09) on an ethnographic investigation of a middle school summer camp.
She has received multiple awards over her career, including Southwestern’s Teaching Award for untenured faculty in 2011 and Excellence in Academic Advising Award in 2007.
Nenga received her PhD from Indiana University in 2004, her MA from San Francisco State University in 1997, and her BA from Simon’s Rock College in 1992.