Speaker: Arun Hendi, Princeton University Title: "Where Does the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap Come From? The Deadly Effects of Residential Segregation" In 2018, newborn black boys and girls could expect to live for 71 and 78 years, respectively. The last time white life expectancy levels were that low was in 1980, meaning that black life... Read more »

Speaker: Denise Milstein, Co-Director of the NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive at Columbia University; Ryan Hagen, Post-doctoral Research Scholar at Columbia University Title:"Repertoires of repair: confronting ontological insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City" How do people make sense of a world fundamentally unsettled by contagion? The pandemic spread of... Read more »

Speaker: Jacob Faber, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service, New York University Title: "New Deal Policy and the Racialization of Homeownership" A growing body of literature has documented the long-term consequences of federal housing policies during the New Deal--most notably the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)--on a wide variety of outcomes. HOLC's infamous redlining... Read more »

Speaker: Wendy Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Title: "Genetic Options and Constraints: How Genetic Ancestry Tests Change Ethnic Identities" An estimated 15% of all U.S. adults have taken genetic ancestry tests (GATs). Recent studies have found that many test-takers change their ethnic and racial identities based on the test results, viewing them... Read more »

Headhunters, also known as recruiters, are power brokers in the tech industry. Yet there are no sociological studies of recruiters that have examined how they adapted to the demands of remote work during the COVID pandemic. In 2022, the technology sector saw the highest increase in resignations of any industry. In June 2021, LinkedIn saw... Read more »