Title: "The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth- Century United States" Speaker: Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, New York University At Sociology Lounge (Room 6112) or Register here to attend online
Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of 250 articles and chapters on national development, international migration, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization, and economic sociology. He has published 30 books and special issues. His books include City on the Edge – the Transformation of Miami (California 1993),... Read more »
We are one of the leading programs in the country in the study of international migration, and our location in New York, the the preeminent center of cultural production in America, provides unique opportunities and resources for cultural studies. Our faculty also study criminology, education, religion, health, globalization and development, social movements, law and the... Read more »
REFORM NATION: THE FIRST STEP ACT AND THE MOVEMENT TO END MASS INCARCERATION (STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023). Colleen Eren (‘13), Professor, and the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program Director at William Paterson University This book looks at the passage of one federal law and what it tells us about the nationalizing and mainstreaming of the criminal justice... Read more »
Title: "Roots of a Murderous Idea: ‘Replacement’ Thinking in the Atlantic World Since the Early 19th Century" Speaker: Leo Lucassen, Professor of Global Labour and Migration History, Leiden University At Sociology Lounge (Room 6112) or Register here to attend online *This event is on Thursday and is co-sponsored by ARC*
Speaker: Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor of Sociology, Tufts University At Sociology Lounge (Room 6112) or Register here to attend online
Speakers: Richard Ocejo, Editor of City and Community & Professor of Sociology, John Jay College Holly Reed, Editor of International Migration Review & Professor of Sociology, Queens College At Sociology Lounge (Room 6112) or Register here to attend online
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist, she is the author or coauthor of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including... Read more »
Alexandra Ravenelle is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), a 2023-24 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, and alumna of '18 at GC sociology. Her newest book, Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times, will be... Read more »
Title: "Displacement, Asylum, and the City – Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Findings" Speaker: René Kreichauf, FWO postdoctoral researcher, Brussels Centre for Urban Studies
