Austin Oswald, MPhil, MA, CTRS

Doctoral Fellow

aoswald@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Austin Oswald is a PhD Candidate in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate. He earned his BSc in Therapeutic Recreation at Dalhousie University, MA in Applied Health Sciences at Brock University, and MPhil in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center. He also holds graduate certificates in Qualitative Research, Demography, and Critical Theory. As a doctoral fellow, Austin works with Dr. Nancy Giunta on a national program evaluation of LGBT cultural sensitivity trainings for aging service providers. He is a co-convener of the Gerontological Society of America Rainbow Research Group where he organizes an international group of scholars in the field of LGBT aging.