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Past Events

Date and Time	Speaker and Title
Thursday, February 23 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Reception to followProf. Daniel Kanstroom will discuss deportation en-forcement in the United States, a ‘nation of immi-grants' that has undertaken a radical, unprecedented social experiment. Although deportation is at least as old as the modern nation-state, we have never before seen an immigration enforcement system of the size, ferocity, and scope that has been built, ironically, in one of history's most open and immi-grant-friendly societies. More than a decade later, it is time to consider the justifications, accomplishments, andfailures of this system.
Thursday, February 23 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Professor Simone Ispa-Landa presents: Teens’ Tactics for Dealing with Parental Monitoring: Uncovering the Inner Workings of Informal Social Control
Thursday, February 23 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Nicola Beisel presents: Discrimination or Genocide? Black Sexual Politics and the 1972 Michigan Abortion Referendum
Monday, February 20 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Carlos Freytes presents: "Searching for the subnational dimension: federalism and legislative coalition building in Kirchner's Argentina (2003-2011)"
Monday, February 20 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Department of Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University “Infrastructure and Historical Ontology: Changing Objects in a Long-Term Study” **Co-sponsored by the Media, Technology, and Society program
Friday, February 17 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Gretta Krippner presents: Credit Citizenship:How Property Rights Trumped Social Rights in U.S. Society
Thursday, February 16 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Courtney Patterson presents: Fashionably Fat: A Dialectic of Race, Silhouette and Form
Thursday, February 16 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes presents: Betwixt and Between: Institutional Ties and Middle Class Women Living with HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, February 14 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Miliann Kang presents: Intersectionality, Feminist Methodology, and Ethnography: Studying Race, Gender, and Immigration in Body Labor
Friday, February 10 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Theda Skocpol presents: The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism This session will be a special roundtable discussion of Professor Skocpol's new book on the Tea Party (co-authored with Vanessa Williamson).
Thursday, February 9 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Stacy Lom presents: Flexible vs. Rigid Evaluative Cultures: The Effects of Formality on Judging and Performance
Thursday, February 9 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Claire Decoteau presents: "Hybrid Habitus: The Politics and Practices of Healing in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Monday, February 6 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Monday, February 6 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Department of History and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University “Writing the History of Narcissism”
Thursday, February 2 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Discussion of “Cultural Work Place Patterns in Academic” byCatherine Hasse and Stine Trentmøller, Published in Science Studies
Thursday, February 2 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Ko Kuwabara presents: "Beauty, Money, and Trust: Physical Attractiveness Biases in an Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Market"
Tuesday, January 31 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Armando Lara-Millan presents: TBA
Thursday, January 26 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Learn About Undergraduate Research: Important information about research grants for senior theses. GREAT FOR JUNIORS! Also Learn About Careers In: Marketing/Business Law Health/Medicine NGO’s The Arts ALL WITH A SOCIOLOGY DEGREE! ALL STUDENTS WELCOME! ALL YEARS! GREAT SPEAKERS GREAT FOOD
Thursday, January 26 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Professor Ann Swidler present: Cultural Sources of Institutional Resilience: Lessons from Chieftaincy in Rural Malawi
Thursday, January 26 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Alondra Nelson presents: "Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination" Co-Sponsored by the Science in Human Culture program with generous support from the Klopsteg fund.
Monday, January 23 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Rachel Moskowitz presents: “The Effect of Neighborhood Racial Diversity on Support for Schools Bonds/Levies”
Monday, January 23 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Communication, USC “Real Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health”
Thursday, January 19 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Mary Beth Finch presents: Selling Virtue: Moral Discourse in Fair Trade Marketing
Thursday, January 19 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Alice Goffman Presents: "On the Run: An American Ghetto in the Era of Surveillance and Imprisonment"
Tuesday, January 17 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Melissa Abad-Merced presents: TBA
Thursday, January 12 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	"Cultural Work Place Patterns in Academia" by Catherine Hasse and Stine Trentmøller, Published in Science Studies vol.24, no.1 (2011)
Thursday, January 12 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor William Darity presents: "Why Stratification Economics?"
Monday, January 9 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Kelly Becker presents: “Does Where You Start Matter? Comparing Long-Term Outcomes of Community College Transfers and Native Four-Year Students”
Monday, January 9 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago "Property, Rights, and the Constitution of Contemporary Indian Biomedicine: Notes from the Gleevec Case"
Thursday, January 5 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Elizabeth Onash and Armando Lara-Millan presents: Making Sense of Obama on ESPN.com: Exploring Racial and Political Ideology on Comment Boards
Monday, November 21 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Pierre Penet presents: “Evaluating Evaluations: Measuring the Box-Office Effects of Film Reviews: Stratification, Competition, and Timing”
Thursday, November 17 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Elizabeth Lenaghan presents: Mingling Materials, Transparent Tastes: Collectors’ Comparisons and Displays of Books and Other Objects
Monday, November 14 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Department of Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech “Bridges to Creative Renewal: Engineers and the Design Revolution in 1960's America”
Friday, November 11 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Title: TBA
Thursday, November 10 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Charlie Kim presents: Indigenous Collaborators and Aligning Actions: Japanese-Occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945
Thursday, November 10 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Rene Almeling presents: Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Wednesday, November 9 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM	A conversation with compañer@s of the MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO from East Harlem, New York City Sponsored by Latina and Latino Studies, African American Studies, and the Sociology Department
Tuesday, November 8 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Gwendolyn Purifoye presents: Do You See Me? A Study of the Interactions Between Homeless Persons and Pedestrians
Monday, November 7 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Amelia Branigan presents: "Heritability of Educational Attainment: An International Meta-Analysis”
Thursday, November 3 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Mary Beth Finch presents: “It’s All About the Story”: Using Narratives to Sell Fair Trade
Thursday, November 3 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Ashley Mears presents:Fashioning Desire: Sex, Race and Distinction in the Modeling Field
Thursday, October 27 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Pierre Penet presents: Evaluating Evaluations: Measuring the Box Office Effects of Film Reviews: Stratification, Competition, and Timing
Thursday, October 27 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Emeritus Arthur Stinchcombe presents: On Ethnographic Methods in Causal Analysis of Social Network Effects
Tuesday, October 25 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Elyse Kovalsky presents: The Ties that Bind: Rethinking How Social Relationships Shape Health
Friday, October 21 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Professor Ira Katzelson presents: “Regarding Toleration and Liberalism: Considerations from the Anglo-Jewish Experience"
Thursday, October 20 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Christine Wood presents: Making Gender Matter: Knowledge Ecologies, Contested Research Objects, and the Development of Women’s and Gender Studies in American Universities, 1970-2010
Thursday, October 20 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Daniel Maman presents: Institutions, Networks, and Culture: The Construction of the Corporate Bond Market in Israel
Tuesday, October 18 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Gemma Mangione presents: Framing Art Through Experience: Granting Art Museum “Access” to Individuals with Dementia
Monday, October 17 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Jesse Savage presents: “Rule of Law, Political Survival, and Sovereignty in Post-Soviet Georgia”
Thursday, October 13 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Robert Vargas presents: Order Through Myths: The Reproduction of the Code of Silence ina Poor Neighborhood
Thursday, October 13 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Co-sponsored: Science in Human Culture Program with generous support from the Klopsteg fund; and the Media, Technology, and Society ProgramProfessor Donald MacKenzie presents: Drilling Through the Allegheny Mountains: The Social Structure of Liquidity in the Age of Automated Trading
Friday, October 7 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Professor Sidney Tarrow presents: “What’s In a Word: Origins and Diffusion of Contentious Language"
Thursday, October 6 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Professor Cheris Shun-ching Chan presents: Marketing Death: Strategies and Discourses of Life Insurance Sales in China
Thursday, October 6 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Co-hosted with Culture & Society Workshop Professor Cheris Shun-ching Chan presents: Marketing Death: Strategies and Discourses of Life Insurance Sales in China
Thursday, October 6 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Veronica Terriquez presents: "Fighting Inequality: Latino Immigrants' Labor Union and School-Based Civic Engagement"
Thursday, September 29 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Melissa Wilde presents: "Fewer, but Better, Children: Race Suicide, the Social Gospel, and Religious Stances on Birth Control in the US, Circa 1931"
Thursday, May 26 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Sheldon Danziger presents: “The Great Recession and the Future of Anti-Poverty Policy” Co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research
Thursday, May 19 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	“Cultural Translation: Team-based Comparative and Qualitative Research across International Lines”
Thursday, May 19 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Katherine Newman with Rourke O'Brien, PhD Candidate, Joint Degree Program in Social Policy, Princeton University presents: “Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged” Co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research and the Ethnography Workshop
Thursday, May 12 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Non-Participation in Consumption Rituals: A Christmas Story
Thursday, May 12 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Douglas Massey presents:“Causes and Consequences of America's War on Immigrants” Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Formerly he was the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-author of American Apartheid (Harvard University Press, 1993), which won the Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association, and more recently he co-authored The Source of the River, the first analysis of minority achievement in selective colleges and universities based on a representative, national sample. Massey has also published extensively on Mexican immigration, including the books Return to Aztlan (University of California Press, 1987) and Miracles on the Border (University of Arizona Press, 1995), which won a 1996 Southwest Book Award. His latest two books on immigration are Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (Russell Sage, 2002), which won the 2004 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for the best book in social demography, and Brokered Boundaries: Constructing Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant times (Russell Sage 2010).
Tuesday, May 10 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	“What can parent organizations do?: Parent-School Relationships in Education Markets"
Thursday, May 5 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Frédéric Lebaron presents: “Individuals, Institutions and Social Structures: A Cross-national Study of Central Bank Leaders.” Co-sponsored by the workshop “Geometric Data Analysis for Sociology and Political Science.”
Monday, May 2 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM	Professor Brigitte Le Roux presents: “Geometric Data Analysis, Current Research & Recent Developments” Co-sponsored by the workshop “Geometric Data Analysis for Sociology and Political Science.”
Thursday, April 28 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	The Emerging Postmodern Cultural Toolkit of the U.S. Military
Thursday, April 28 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor César Rodríguez Garavito presents: “Ethnicity.gov: Global Governance, Indigenous Peoples, and the Right to Prior Consultation in Social Minefields”
Thursday, April 21 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Co-sponsored by: Science in Human Culture Program with generous support from the Klopsteg fund Professor Stefan Timmermans presents: “Neither Sick Nor Normal: The Social Ontology of Newborn Screening”
Thursday, April 14 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Woody Powell presents:“Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form.” Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education (and) Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, Public Policy, and Communication at Stanford University, and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. From 1999 to 2010, he was director of Scancor at Stanford; today he is faculty co-director of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Powell works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of science. His interests focus on the processes through which knowledge is transferred across organizations, and the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation and of institutions in codifying ideas. With Dan McFarland, Chris Manning, and Dan Jurafsky, he is studying how scientific ideas are created and propagated, and whether interdisciplinary collaboration enhances, retards, or alters this flow. He recently completed a book with John Padgett, on The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, which culminates a decade- long project analyzing the role of networks in invention, transposition, and re-functionality.
Thursday, April 7 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Leslie Salzinger presents: “Beneath the Model: From ‘Developing Nation’ to ‘Emerging Market,’ Deal by Deal”
Thursday, March 31 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Carla Shedd presents: “Arresting Development: Race, Place, and the End of Adolescence” Carla Shedd is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Columbia University. Shedd received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. Her research and teaching interests focus on: crime and criminal justice; race and ethnicity; law and society; social inequality; and urban sociology. Shedd is currently finishing her first book, Arresting Development: Race, Place, and the End of Adolescence, which focuses on the city of Chicago. Centrally, the book examines the two institutions that prominently shape the lives of urban youth: the public school system and the criminal justice system. It also highlights the racially stratified social and physical terrain youth traverse between home and school. Shedd has been published in various academic journals, such as the American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods & Research, and edited book volumes. She has also received numerous competitive fellowships and grants from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Consortium on Violence Research, Columbia University, and Northwestern University. Shedd is a 2010-11 Post-Doctoral Fellow for the Ford Foundation. She is currently on sabbatical leave for the 2010-11 academic year as a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Thursday, March 10 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Paul DiMaggio, Princeton UniversityAmir Goldberg, Princeton University Exploring Schematic Heterogeneity in Public Opinion Data: Variation inHow Americans Map Relations of Opposition and Affinity Between Science, Religion, and the Supernatural
Thursday, March 3 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Bending the “Code of the Streets”: Snitching Cultures in a Violent Chicago Neighborhood
Thursday, March 3 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Sarah Quinn presents: “The Rise of the Credit State: Federal Programs from the New Deal through the Postwar Era.” Sarah Quinn is a postdoctoral scholar with the Michigan Society of Fellows, and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on the intersection of culture and politics in markets. Her current project considers how a long history of U.S. housing and credit policy contributed to the rise of the mortgage-backed security market. Findings from this research have been referenced by the Congressional Budget Office and in The New York Times Magazine. Her earlier work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology.
Thursday, February 24 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Professor Christina Mora presents: "De Muchos, Uno: The Institutionalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, 1960-1990." Prefessor Mora has a Provost Career Enhancement Post Doctoral Fellowship 2009-2011 Sociology at the University of Chicago. Mora's book project, De Muchos, Uno: The Institutioinalization of Hispanic Panethnicity, is based on her dissertation research, which won the 2010 Distinguised Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association as the first socio-historical text to account for the rise of Hispanic panethnicity. The book speaks directly to debates on racial and ethnic categorization in America. In addition, Mora also conducts research on immigrant religion and civic engagement.Â [http://www.gcristinamora.com/] Â [http://www.gcristinamora.com/]Christina Mora is originally from Los Angeles and is completing her doctoral degree in Sociology at Princeton University. Her dissertation, States, Politics and Markets: the Historical Institutionalization of Latino Panethnicity 1960-1990, examines how state bureaucrats, Chicano and Puerto Rican social movement activists and Spanish-language media executives constructed the idea of Latino panethnicity in the United States. Drawing on various archival sources, oral histories, and interviews, Cristina details how the notion of Latino panethnicity was developed first as a statistical entity for state-building purposes, and then became translated into political and cultural expressions of group solidarity by activists and media executives. To date, her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. While at the University of Chicago, Cristina plans to fashion her dissertation into a book manuscript and supplement her historical research with quantitative analyses of Latino identification trends. Additionally, Cristina plans to launch a new collaborative project on panethnicity among Latin American immigrants in Spain.

Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011

Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll

Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented: Robert Vargas

Upcoming Events

Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM