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

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, December 3rd for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Arianne Eason entitled “Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever”: A Mutually Reinforcing Psychological Cycle Stagnating Change”. Eason is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been since 2019. She holds a PhD from the… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, December 3: Arianne Eason

Just a quick reminder that there will be no seminar next week due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Our next speaker will be Visiting Scholar Arianne Eason on Wednesday, December 3rd. 

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, November 19th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Ingrid Gould Ellen, “Who Owns the Neighborhood? The Long-Run Effects of the Urban Renewal Program on People, Places, and Policies.” Ellen has been Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at New York… Read More Visiting Researcher Seminar, November 19: Ingrid Gould Ellen

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, November 12th, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Maggie Penn, “What Should Algorithms Optimize?” Click here for a copy of her background article. Penn is Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University where she’s been… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, November 12: Elizabeth Penn

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, November 5th, in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Heather Schoenfeld, “21st Century Justice: The Struggle to Decarcerate in the US States.” Click here for a background article which provides a broad framework for her project. Schoenfeld is an Associate Professor of Sociology… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, November 5: Heather Schoenfeld