Academic Year 2012 – 2013
Fall 2012
September 5, 2012 (12:00-1:00pm)
Angel Harris, Associate Professor, Princeton University
“A Search for Oppositional Culture: Race, Perceptions of Upward Mobility, and Schooling”
September 13, 2012(12:00-1:00pm)
Michael Hout, Professor, Department of Demography Director, Berkeley Population Center, University of California at Berkeley
“Employment, Faith, and Happiness during the Great Recession: Data from the 2006-2010 GSS Panel”
September 26, 2012(12:00-1:00pm)
UNC-CH Sociology ASA Panel
Colin Campbell – “The Effect of Education on Attitudes: Evidence from Sibling Pairs”
Brandon Gorman – “Who Should rule the Islamic State?”
Allison Matthews – “Understanding the Role of Identity in Black Gay Men’s Religious Choice and Participation”
Tiantian Yang and Howard Aldrich – “Status Organization and Role Stereotyping: Institutionalized Gender inequality in Entrepreneurial Times”
October 10, 2012(12:00-1:00pm)
Michael Gaddis, Graduate Odum Award Winner, Ph.D. Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race, Class and College Selectivity in the Labor Market”
October 31, 2012(12:00-1:00pm)
Phil Morgan, Professor, Director of Carolina Population Center, UNC – CH
“Fertility Intentions: There’s More Than We Think (and Sometimes Less)”
November 8, 2012(12:00-1:00pm)
Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Cornell University
December 5, 2012(12:00-1:00pm)
Kevin Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State University
“The New Immigrant Paradox: Highly-Skilled Black Immigrants, Occupational Mismatches, and the Economic Disadvantage of Black Children in Immigrant Families”
Spring 2013
January 23, 2013 (12:00 – 1:00pm)
Tyrone Forman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Emory University
“Exploring Prejudice in the Post-Racial Era”
January 30, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm)
John McCarthy, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Penn State University
“Accounting for the Likelihood of Campus Community Public Disorders, 1997-2007”
February 6, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm)
John Shelton Reed, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UNC – Chapel Hill
February 27, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm)
Nitza Berkovitch, Professor of Sociology, Ben Gurion University, Israel
“The Politics of (In)Visibility: On the Blind Spots of Women’s Discrimination in the Academy”
March 27, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm) Doris Selo Lecture
Aldon Morris, Professor, Northwestern University
“Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois: Why Du Bois is the Founder of American Scientific Sociology”
April 3, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm) Social Forces Visiting Scholar
Michael Macy, Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
“Why Do Liberals Drink Lattes?”
April 10, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm)
Jackie Hagan, Robert G. Parr Distinguished Professor, UNC – CH
“Identifying the Skills of the “Unskilled” in the Mexico-U.S. Migratory Circuit”
April 24, 2013 (12:00-1:00pm) Social Forces Visiting Scholar
Francesca Polletta, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California at Irvine
“The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Democracy Based on Talk”