"Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles" Rocio Rosales, UC Irvine This work examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities... Read more »
Speaker: Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Title: "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" Abstract: Through the erotic webcam industry—"camming”—millions of people... Read more »
The open house this year will be held virtually on Zoom. Please sign up for the event here. All are welcome to join!
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... Read more »
“Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education” Speaker: Rebecca Tarlau, Associate Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University Over the... Read more »
Speakers: Erica Chito Childs, Chair, Department of Sociology, Hunter College Jonathan Wynn, Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (GC Alum) Van Tran, Associate Professor, PhD Program in Sociology, GC... Read more »
"Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move" Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst Today, the concept of "the refugee" as distinct from other migrants looms large. Immigration laws... Read more »
"Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" Speaker: Cynthia Cranford, University of Toronto Mississauga Home care is a window into the complexity of inequality. In this talk, I focus on my recently published book Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances in which I argue that, in home care, understanding both... Read more »
Speakers: Richard Ocejo, John Jay College and GC, Chief Editor of City and Community Jessica Hardie, Hunter College and GC (on article publishing) Hayden Ju, GC (on article publishing from a grad student's perspective)
"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 »
