Dear RSF:

There will be no seminar on May 13, but we will continue our series on May 20th via Zoom with Visiting Scholar Michèle Lamont’s “Gaining the Future: Producing Hope in the New Gilded Age.”  This seminar will begin at 11:00.

Lamont received her BA in Political Science from Ottawa University and her PhD in Sociology from the Université de Paris.  She is Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative methods. Her most recent monograph is the co-authored Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016).