Tom Tyler’s seminar presentation will be entitled “Legitimacy-Based Law”. Professor Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, where he joined the faculty in 2012. His research explores the role of justice in shaping people’s relationships with groups, organizations, communities and societies. In particular he examines the… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Oct. 10: Tom Tyler
Dear RSF: Please join us in the library on Wednesday, September 12, for the first seminar of the year, given by guest speaker Alexandra Killewald. Killewald is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research takes a demographic approach to the study of social stratification. Much of her work focuses on the work-family intersection, including… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar, Sept. 12, Alexandra Killewald
Dear Staff and the Class of 2017-18, Please join me in welcoming guest speaker Alondra Nelson for the last seminar of the academic year, entitled, “The Social Life of DNA: Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality.” The talk will be held in the Library on Wednesday, May 23rd, from 11 AM to 12.30 PM. Alondra Nelson… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar Announcement, 5/23 – Alondra Nelson, SSRC
Dear Staff and the Class of 2017-18, Please join me in welcoming Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar Hazel Markus for a seminar entitled, “Bridging Social Class Divides through Interdependence.” The talk will be held in the Library this Wednesday, May 9th, from 11 AM to 12.30 PM. Hazel Rose Markus is the Davis-Brack Professor in… Read More MOS Scholar Seminar Announcement, 5/9 – Hazel Markus, Stanford University
Dear RSF Staff and the Class of 2017-18, This Wednesday, May 2nd at 11 AM, please join me in welcoming guest speaker Cathy Cohen for her seminar, entitled “What Counts as Political Knowledge: Race, Participation and the Carceral State.” Cathy J. Cohen is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the… Read More Guest Speaker Seminar Announcement, 5/2 – Cathy Cohen, U Chicago
Dear Staff and the Class of 2017-18, Please join me Wednesday, April 25th at 11 AM in welcoming Robert K. Merton Scholar Robert Solow for his seminar entitled, “The Simple Arithmetic of Social Security.” Robert Solow is the Institute Professor Emeritus at M.I.T. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation from 1999–2000 and became… Read More Robert K. Merton Scholar Seminar Announcement, 4/25 – Robert Solow, MIT