Dear RSF: Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday, February 26 for Visiting Scholar Onoso Imoagene’s presentation “Lucky Migrants? West African Diversity Visa Migrants and the Downstream Effects of US Immigration Policy.” Imoagene received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, a M.Phil. in Modern Society and Global Transformations from Cambridge University,… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Feb 26: Onoso Imoagene
Dear RSF: Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday, February 19, for Visiting Scholar Shinobu Kitayama’s presentation, “How Culture Shapes the Mind: Brain Plasticity and the Diversity of Mentality.” Kitayama received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and his B.A. and M.A. from Kyoto University in Japan. He is… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Feb 19: Shinobu Kitayama
Dear RSF, Please join me next week for a guest seminar by Anna O. Law. Law holds the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights at Brooklyn College, where she teaches in the Political Science Department. Her publications appear in both social science and law journals and investigate the interaction between law, legal institutions and politics.… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar, Feb 12: Anna O. Law
Dear RSF: Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday, February 5, for Visiting Scholar Lisa Park’s seminar, “Medical Deportations: Hidden in Plain Sight.” Park received both her MA and PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is currently Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies and Professor of Sociology at University… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Feb 5: Lisa Park
Dear RSF: Please join us Wednesday, January 29 at 11:00 in the library for Visiting Scholar Kristin Turney’s presentation, “What Doing Time Does to Families: Incarceration and Family Life in the United States.” Turney received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her joint B.S. in Journalism and Sociology from… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Jan 29: Kristin Turney
Dear RSF: Please join us in the library at 11:00 on Wednesday, January 22 for Visiting Scholar Amy Hsin’s presentation, “Beyond Dreamers: The Under-analyzed Complexity of the Undocumented Immigrant Population in NYC.” Hsin received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles and both her B.A. and M.A. in Economics from New… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, Jan 22: Amy Hsin