Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, February 20, for a presentation by Bradley Hardy entitled “Historical Segregation and Contemporary Social Mobility.” Dr. Hardy is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University, where he has been since 2011.   His research interests lie within labor economics, with an emphasis on economic instability,… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Feb 20: Bradley Hardy

Please join us next Wednesday, February 13, for a presentation by Anne Pebley and Noreen Goldman entitled “Latinos, Work, and Functional Limitations.” Dr. Pebley is the Fred H. Bixby Professor of Population Research and Director of the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.  She’s been at… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Feb 13: Anne Pebley and Noreen Goldman

Dear RSF, Please join us next Wednesday, February 6 for a guest seminar by Michael Schudson, Journalism as a Vocation Between Politics and Science.  Schudson is Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School.  Michael Schudson grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Feb 6: Michael Schudson

Dear RSF, Please join me next Wednesday, January 30, for Ariel White’s seminar presentation, Reducing Street-Level Discrimination. White is Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT.  She studies voting and voting rights, race, the criminal justice system, and bureaucratic behavior. Her work uses large datasets to measure individual-level experiences, and to shed light on people’s everyday… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Jan 30: Ariel White

Dear all: Please join us on Wednesday, January 23, for a presentation by Jane Mansbridge entitled “Defining and Thinking About Populism.” Dr. Mansbridge is the Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She’s been at the Kennedy School since relocating from Chicago in 1996.  At… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Jan 23: Jane Mansbridge

Please join us on Wednesday, January 16, for a talk by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez entitled “Bread and Butter or Bread and Roses? Dilemmas of Solidarity in the Public Sector Labor Movement”.  Dr. Hertel-Fernandez is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University’s School of International and Political Affairs.  His focus in on US political economy,… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Jan 16: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez