{"id":19052,"date":"2026-02-06T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:04:17","slug":"visiting-scholar-seminar-february-11-orly-clerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/?p=19052","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Scholar Seminar, February 11: Orly Clerg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dear RSF:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join us next Wednesday, February 11 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Orly  Clerg\u00e9”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Clerg\u00e9\u00a0is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She holds a BA in Sociology from Wheaton College in Massachusetts and an MA and PhD in Sociology from Brown University. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Her research focuses on the intersections of race and ethnicity, migration\/immigration, Black diaspora studies, urban sociology, mobility, social demography, identity, ethnography, and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her 2019 book,\u00a0The New Noir: Race, Identity & Diaspora in Black Suburbia<\/a>\u00a0(University of California Press) was the co-winner of the Mary C. Douglas award for best book in the sociology of culture from the American Sociological Association, and a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award (2020) from the Society of Social Problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At RSF Clerg\u00e9 is working on a new book project that explores the political consciousness of Black youth. Using historiography and ethnography, the book reveals the everyday conditions of racial and class inequality that shaped Obama era Black youth\u2019s political identity, solidarities, and visions for a just future during their adolescence and transitions to adulthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, February 11 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Orly  Clerg\u00e9” \u00a0Clerg\u00e9\u00a0is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She holds a BA in Sociology from Wheaton College in Massachusetts and an MA and PhD in Sociology from… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, February 11: Orly Clerg\u00e9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19057,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions\/19057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsfintranet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}