Dear RSF,

Please join me on Wednesday, October 23 for a seminar by Mary Pattillo, Pay Unto Caesar: Breaches of Justice in the Monetary Sanctions Regime. 

Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997.  Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity, the black middle class, policy, inequality, urban sociology, and qualitative methods.

In her first book, Black Picket Fences (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Pattillo investigated the economic, spatial, and cultural forces that affect child-rearing and youth socialization in a black middle class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Black Picket Fences won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Her second book, Black on the Block (University of Chicago Press 2007) focused on gentrification and public housing transformation in North Kenwood-Oakland on Chicago’s South Side. It won the Robert Park Book Award and a proclamation of the City of Chicago.