Dear Staff and Class of 2017-18,

Please join me in welcoming RSF Visiting Scholar Andrea Voyer for her seminar entitled, “Recognizing Everyday Inequality.” The talk will be held in the Library on Wednesday, March 28th, from 11 AM to 12.30 PM.

Andrea Voyer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on processes of social inclusion and exclusion on the basis of immigration, race, and class. Her research on Somali immigrant inclusion was recently published as a book, Strangers and Neighbors: Multiculturalism, Conflict, and Community in America. Her current research, funded by the RSF, examines inter-class interactions in everyday life. She is also conducting an analysis of historical changes in Emily Post’s Etiquette for the insight that manners provide into the nature of American class relations.

Prior to the University of Connecticut, Voyer held appointments as Visiting Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhoi, China, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, Research Fellow at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden, and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pace University in New York City.

I hope everyone is looking forward—as I am—to what will no doubt be an interesting and productive discussion.