Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, January 28th, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Judith Levine, “What Income Masks: Rethinking College as a Great Equalizer.” Levine is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Public Policy Lab, an inter-disciplinary research center, in the College of… Read More Visiting Researcher Seminar, January 28: Judith Levine

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, January 21st at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, “The Demography of Historical Memory — Ours and Other People’s.” Wrigley-Field is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and Associate Director of the Minnesota Population Center, and a… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, January 21: Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, January 14th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for presentation by Karen Tejada-Peña, “Putting them on ICE: Policing Salvadorans on Long Island.” Click here for a background article. Tejada-Peña is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hartford, Hillyer College, where she has been since 2008. She… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, January 14: Karen Tejada-Peña

Due to the holiday break, there will be no seminar next week or the week after. Our Wednesday seminar series will continue on January 14th in the library and on Zoom with a presentation by Visiting Scholar Karen Tejada. We hope you’ll join us then.

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, December 17 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Christina Cross “Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families.” Cross is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where she has been since 2019. She holds a… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, December 17: Christina Cross

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, December 10 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Francesca Polletta “Bra Burners in the Ladies’ Home Journal: How Popular Cultural Feminism Changed Americans’ Beliefs About Gender”. Click here for the background article. Polletta is Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of… Read More Visiting Researcher Seminar, December 10: Francesca Polletta