Academic Year 2011 – 2012
Fall 2011
September 14, 2011 – UNC-CH Sociology ASA Roundup
- Neal Caren, “Bringing Adversity Back In: Economic Breakdown and the Pace of Collective Action”
- Michael Gaddis, “High-Arts Participation or Habits and Skills? A Longitudinal Analysis of Cultural Capital among Low-Income Youth”
- Amy Lucas, “Economic Hardship and Relationship Quality among Cohabiting and Married Couples in Germany”
- Ted Mouw, “Bi-National Social Networks and Assimilation: A Test of the Importance of Transnationalism”
September 21, 2011 – 12:00pm-1:00pm
Jenifer Bratter, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rice University
Child Poverty at a Racial Cross Roads: Assessing Child Poverty for Children in Mono- and Multiracial Families
October 13, 2011
Shehzad Nadeem, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Lehman College, City University of New York
A discussion with Shehzad Nadeem, author of Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Themselves
October 26, 2011
Liana Richardson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, UNC-CH
(En)gendering Racial Disparities in Health Trajectories: An Intersectional and Life Course Analysis
November 9, 2011 – Social Forces Visiting Scholar
Sarah Soule, Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960-1995
November 16, 2011
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Betwixt and Between: Middle Class Women Living with HIV/AIDS
November 30, 2011 – 12:00pm-1:00pm
Alexes Harris, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
An Intended Consequence: Monetary Sanctions as a Permanent Punishment for Poor People
Spring 2012
January 25, 2012
Mark Regnerus, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying
February 1, 2012
Amy Lucas, Graduate Odum Award Winner, UNC-CH
Role Socialization and Personality Play on Romantic Relationship Quality in Young Adulthood
February 15, 2012
Beth Rubin, Professor, UNC Charlotte
President, Southern Sociological Society, 2011-2012
Conceptions of the Social Contract
February 22, 2012
Vanesa Ribas, Graduate Odum Award Winner, UNC-CH
Prismatic Engagement: Latino and African American Workers’ Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant
February 29, 2012 – Doris Selo Memorial Lecture – 12:00pm-1:00pm
Florencia Torche, Associate Professor, New York University
Prenatal Exposure to Local Violence and Birth Outcomes in Mexico
March 15, 2012 – Social Forces Visiting Scholars – 12:30pm-1:45pm
Ann Swidler, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Susan Cotts Watkins, Visiting Research Scientist with the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles; Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Working Misunderstandings: How Donors, Brokers and Villagers Make AIDS Altruism Work
April 18, 2012 – UNC-CH and Duke University Present:
Randal Collins, The Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
President, American Sociological Association, 2011
Is Social Class Becoming Invisible? Informalization of Manners and Self-Presentation, and What Causes It