Dear RSF: Please join us Wednesday 5/22 in the library at 11:00 for a presentation by Francesca Polletta entitled “The Trouble with Stories.” Polletta has been a Professor of Sociology and Graduate Director at the University of California-Irvine since 2008.  Prior to 2008, she was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, May 22: Francesca Polletta

Dear RSF, Please join me next Wednesday, May 15, at 11:00 for a seminar by Lauren Rivera titled Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation.  Rivera is Associate Professor of Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University as well as Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar, May 15: Lauren Rivera

Dear RSF, Please join us on Wednesday, May 8, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Visiting Journalist Larissa MacFarquhar entitled “Homeplace: Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay, and Those Who Go Back.” Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her profile subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama,… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, May 8: Larissa MacFarquhar

Dear RSF: Please join us Wednesday, 5/1, in the library at 11:00, for a presentation by Eric Verhoogen entitled “Employment Contracts and Technology Adoption.”  Verhoogen has a joint appointment as Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International Affairs.  He is also co-director of Columbia’s… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, May 1: Eric Verhoogen

Dear RSF, Our seminar series will resume on Wednesday, April 17, when we welcome guest speaker Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, speaking on The Role of Higher Education in Addressing Problems of Growth, inequality and Opportunity.  Black is an internationally-respected economist who also has spent time in Washington, D.C., working in… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar, Apr 17: Rebecca Blank