"Supporting Democratic Practices in Learning Communities: From Burning Man to a Self-Directed School" Speaker: Professor Katherine Chen

"What's Gender Got to Do With It? Deepening the Ethnographic Imagination" Speaker: Professors Lynn Chancer and Michaela Soyer

“Environmental Justice and the Green New Deal" Speaker: Jack Hammond​

Professor Ruth Milkman will speak on her new book Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Polity 2020) The Zoom link will be shared via our department email listserv.  

Professor Barbara Katz Rothman will be speaking on her new book The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from The COVID Pandemic  (Stanford 2021). About the Book We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. Critiques of biopower and the “medical industrial complex”... Read more »

Kyla Bender-Baird will be speaking about her recently defended dissertation (Chair: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman), “Standing Trans Before the Law.” The Zoom link will be sent via the department email listserv.

Title: "Tales from the Field and Fourteen Countries: Towards a Global Framework of Mixed Marriage" Speaker: Erica Chito Childs, Chair and Professor of Sociology at Hunter College Zoom link is available via email.

"African Americans in Suburbs and Coastal Communities: Two Projects on Achieving Security and Facing Structural Risks" Speaker: Greg Smithsimon, Professor at Brooklyn College and GC   Gregory Smithsimon’s forthcoming book, Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism, looks at middle-class suburbs outside Baltimore to understand how residents use the... Read more »