Graduate Alumni
Sara Bubenik is a postdoctoral fellow at United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB) and was named an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Bubenik has been appointed as UWMB Research Communications Director where, among other responsibilities, she will collaborate with colleagues and research partners to disseminate findings from ongoing research efforts to a broad audience.
Sara’s research interests lie at the intersection of social support, collective trauma, and digital spaces. Her dissertation explores how people use social media in the era of COVID-19 to seek and receive social support when in-person contact is restricted or unavailable. Sara is also interested in medical sociology, with a particular interest in healthcare systems and social determinants of health; as well as visual and digital research methods.