Title: Islam’s American Frontiers Speaker: Prof. Mucahit Bilici Today in America, Islam and Muslims are excluded, discriminated against and subjected to widespread Islamophobia. Although Islam is not new to America and Muslim presence dates back to pre-colonial times, the Muslim community is largely composed of immigrants whose encounter with certain aspects of American life is new... Read more »
Demystifying job searches during your student days and closer to when you are graduating. Speakers: TBD
After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back A Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2019) After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism takes the long view of the successes and shortcomings of feminism(s). Chancer articulates a broad agenda developed through advancing intersectional concerns about class, race, and sexuality. She advocates ways to reduce the... Read more »
"Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century" Speaker: Tey Meadow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Description: Something about gender is changing. Trans Kids is an ethnographic account of the first generation of families actively facilitating gender nonconformity in young children. Whereas previous generations of parents sent children who defied gender norms for psychiatric treatment aimed... Read more »
This workshop of faculty and graduate students meets about once a month to discuss a wide range of issues related to the study of criminology, law, deviance and policy. We read one or two papers per month in these areas, sometimes from students and sometimes from faculty, and we also usually host one guest speaker... Read more »
The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. Please come and join us! Light refreshments will be served. Van Tran (CUNY Sociology): The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action Xuemeng Li (CUNY Sociology): Dissertation Proposal (Africans in China) Contacts:... Read more »
"Race and Immigration Trajectories Among Undocumented College Students in NYC" Speakers: Sofya Aptekar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UMass Boston, and Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation Amy Hsin, Associate Professor of Sociology, Queens College CUNY, and Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
"Supporting Democratic Practices in Learning Communities: From Burning Man to a Self-Directed School" Speaker: Professor Katherine Chen
Please join us for the first Professional Preparation Sociology Series (PPSS) of the semester on "Publication" in our lounge from 3-5 pm. Anna Zhelnina is a PhD candidate in the program working on the dissertation about resistance to an urban renewal project in Moscow, Russia. Anna will talk about the experience of preparing, revising, and publishing her... Read more »
The Sociology Students Association is throwing a welcome party for the first-year cohort. There will be free food, drinks, music, and incredible people! Hope to see you there!
