Degrees:
M.A., Univ. of Connecticut
B.A., Univ. of Maryland
Professor Hall uses experience from teaching and facilitation to encourage a discussion where students fuel their engagement with readings from their own experiences. Spending summers guiding Turtle Campers through museums in DC and Trio high schoolers to navigate college campuses for the first time, Prof. Hall has spent the last decade highlighting race, gender, and class disparities in a manner that decenters individual students placement in grouping from the onset and focuses on how students do or do not relate to some of these bigger picture phenomenon. In Prof. Hall's classes, the pathway to self-identification and collectivism comes through learning how others navigated this pathway prior and how this aligns with our current circumstances, with consideration of advancements in technology and their impact on how young adults socialize, engage with social issues, and even participate in the classroom.
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Race & Ethnicity
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Gender Identity & conflict
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Hip Hop history
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Game Studies
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Social Inequality
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Social Deviance
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Youth Development
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Black Masculinity
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Black Feminisms
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Print media coverage
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Competition & Competitive Theory
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Communal enrichment
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Family & neighborhood structure
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Third Spaces
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- Hall, Rhys. 2025. “We can still revive Rival Schools: Contemporary efforts to maintain arcade venues and culture and the relevance of competitive culture in community building’. Forthcoming; BIPOC Game Studies Conference & Publication, Rochester, NY, September 2025.
- Hall, Rhys. 2025. “Reloading an Old Save File: Introduction statement for Special issue”. Sociation, Vol. 22, Iss. 1.
- Hall,
Rhys. 2020. “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on
Chicago’s South Side, by Eve L. Ewing”. Social Inquiry, Vol. 90 Iss. 4,
pp 996-998.
- Hall, Rhys, 2018. ‘FGC Thuggery and Reality: A comparative
analysis of communal development in Competitive Fighting Game Culture’.
Association for Humanists Sociology Detroit meeting, November 2018.
- Hall, Rhys. 2025. “We can still revive Rival Schools: Contemporary efforts to maintain arcade venues and culture and the relevance of competitive culture in community building’. Forthcoming; Association for Humanist Sociology, Columbus, OH, November 2025.
- Hall, Rhys. 2018. “Covering a Killer: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of White Male Mass Murderers in the U.S.” Open Commons UConn.
- Hughey, Matthew W. and Rhys Hall. 2018. "Commentary: African Americans and the Oscars." In The American Mosaic: The African American Experience, ABC-CLIO.
- Hughey, Matthew W., Menaka Kannan, and Rhys Hall. 2018. “Watching Moonlight in the Twilight of Obama.” Humanity & Society 41(3): 287-98.
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- Semi-Finalist, CAS Faculty Excellence Award (results pending) – Quinnipiac University, 2025
- Graduate Instructor of the Year, University of Connecticut, 2023-24
- Adjunct Faculty of the Year, Quinnipiac University, 2023-24
- Semi-Finalist, CAS Faculty Excellence Award – Quinnipiac University, 2024
- Arnold & Sandra Dashefsky Award for Excellence, University of Connecticut, 2022-23
- Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellow, 2022
- James Williams Award for Cultural Leadership, University of Maryland, 2016
- The Ethnic Minority Achievement Award for Undergraduate Students, 2016
- Nyumburu Cultural Center awards for Student of the Year, Student Service Org of the Year, (Black Male Initiative), Most improved organization (Black Male Initiative) and Community Warrior for Activism – University of Maryland, 2016
- Ronald E. McNair Scholars Peer/Scholar Mentor Award, Univ of Maryland, 2015
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