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Ella Rossetti

(She/Her)

Experience:
Veteran 3
Graduating Year:
2027
Class Year:
Graduate
College(s):
College of Arts & Sciences
Major(s):
Cognitive Science
Economics
Molecular Biology
Minor(s):
Music
Psychology
Hometown:
Manasquan, NJ
About:
Becoming a TRAC Fellow has been one of the most transformative endeavours I have taken part in. Meeting with students, bonding with the other fellows, and advancing the values of TRAC have led me to a place of devout interest in lifelong learning and mindfulness. Outside of TRAC, I am studying for the MCAT, a part of the LU Philharmonic Orchestra, a member of the club field hockey team, and an avid cellist and pianist. In my free time, I love to go to workout classes with friends, practice yoga, and listen to music!

Courses TRACed:

FALL 2025

POPH 316
Global Sexual Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

None

This course explores sexual reproductive health issues through the lens of reproductive justice, human rights, and gender equity. Using case studies from around the world, students analyze such topics as unmet family planning needs, contraception, abortion politics and access to care, cross-border reproductive travel, sexually transmitted infections and HIV prevention and care, evidence around inclusive vs. abstinence-based sexual education, adolescent health, LGBTQAI+ health, refugees and populations in transit, declining birth rates, pronatalist policies, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, surrogacy, and egg freezing.

SPRING 2024

SOC 397
Identity & Social Media

Sociology

Who are we? How do we understand ourselves? From Mead’s theory of the “looking glass self” to the feminist mantra of “the personal is political,” sociologists have wrestled with how our identities are created and interpreted vis-à-vis our relationships and social context. In the digital age, with the explosion of new ways to interact with one another and to display, perform, and curate our identities online, identity has only become more salient. In this course, we will read canonical and contemporary sociological theories of identity. We will then consider how those theories can be extended to online contexts to develop a better understanding of identity in the 21st century. This is a writing-intensive seminar: class meetings will be discussion-based, and students will write several short essays throughout the term as well as a longer paper that will undergo a peer review and revision process.