Academic Year 2009 – 2010

Spring 2010

April

• April 2, 2010, 12pm – Preview of UNC Sociology contributions to the PAA meetings:

1. Yilan Fu “Interracial Marriage Formation: Transition from Cohabitation to Marriage among Interracial and Same-Race Couples”
2. Michael Gaddis “What’s in a Relationship?:  Examining Race, Class, and Contact Time as Determinants of Social Capital in Mentoring Relationships”
3. Claudia Geist and Philip Cohen “Time for a Change?  The Domestic Division of Labor in comparative Perspective, 1994 and 2002”
4. Kayo Suzuki “The Socialization Effects of Parental Union Behaviors on Young Adult First Union formation: Gender Differences in Cohabitation and Marriage”

• April 21, 2010, 12pm – Doris Selo Memorial Lecture – Charles Ragin, University of Arizona – Social Forces Visiting Scholar “Intersecting Inequalities:  A Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Family Background, Test Scores, and Poverty”

March

• March 3, 2010, 12pm – Abdul Sattar Jawad, Duke University “Human Rights” *This event will be held in Hyde Hall, University Room
• March 17, 2010, 12pm – Prema Kurien, Syracuse University “Culture-Free Religion in a Multicultural Age: Evangelicalism and Ethnic Churches”
• March 24, 2010, 12pm – Guang Guo, UNC-CH “Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Identity in the Contemporary United States”

February

• February 3, 2010, 12pm – Tyson Brown, Duke University “The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Health Trajectories.”

January

• January 20, 2010, 12pm – Kim Babon, Wake Forest University/University of Chicago “Revisiting Cultural Capital: Rethinking Relationships Between Educational Attainment and Cultural Behavior.”

Fall 2009

November

• November 4, 2009, 12pm – Jen’nan Read, Duke University, “Gender and Immigrant Health: Divergent Patterns for Middle Eastern Men and Women”
• November 11, 2009, 12pm – Philip Cohen, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Desegregation, 1975-2005”
• November 18, 2009, 12pm – Pamela Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration” (Social Forces Visiting Scholar)

October

• October 7, 2009, 12pm – Ashton Verdery, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Motivating and Introducing Adaptive Network Sampling: An Adaptive Network-Based Approach to Surveying Hidden Populations”
• October 14, 2009, 12pm – Michele Easter, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Legitimized as an Actual Disease: Perceptions of Genetics in Eating Disorders”
• October 28, 2009, 12pm – Alexis Silver, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Growing Up Gringo: The Transition to Adulthood for Children of Immigrants in Small Town America”

September

• September 2, 2009, 12pm – ASA Wrap Up
• September 9, 2009, 12pm – Karen Fields, University of Bordeaux, “Durkheim’s Concept of Soul, Collective Representations, and ‘Race’ in America.” Cosponsored by Social Forces Visiting Scholars, Political Science and the Institute for Arts and Humanities. *This event will be held in Hyde Hall University Room.
• September 16, 2009, 12pm – Lisa Pearce, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Meaningful Mosaics: Types and Dynamics of Religiosity in Adolescence”
• September 23, 2009, 12pm – Liam Downey, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Inter-Neighborhood Migration, Race, and Environmental Hazards”
• September 30, 2009, 12pm – Allan Parnell, UNC-Chapel Hill and Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, “Exposing Invisible Fences: GIS in Civil Rights Litigation”