Education: PhD (Sociology), Emory University BA (English and Political Science), North Carolina Central University Biography: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is an award-winning author, professor, and sociologist, whose work has earned national and international recognition for the urgency and depth … Read more
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico Abstract: Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.-born children living in Mexico doubled in size. In this study … Read more
Dare You Fight: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis Abstract: In 1910, W.E.B Du Bois founded The Crisis, the official journal of the newly established NAACP. Du Bois commissioned thousands of articles during his twenty-five years as an editor, ranging from poetry and plays … Read more
“They’re Killing Us on Paper”: Accounting for Systemic Injustice and Black Resistance Beyond Policing and Protests Education: Ph.D. Kansas State University Biography: Dr. Andrea Boyles is a sociologist, criminologist, and author of the books, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: … Read more
Structural Sexism and Health in the United States Abstract: In this talk, Patricia Homan will discuss her award-winning work developing new theory and measurement for the concept of structural sexism. Her talk will describe: what structural sexism is, how it … Read more
Born in Blood: Death Work, White Power, and the Rise of the Black Guerilla Family Abstract: Drawing on several hours of life history interviews and hundreds of archival documents, Friedman traces the institutional conditions that spurred the rise of the … Read more
Repertoires of Control: Explaining Organizational Innovation and Change in US Protest Policing Abstract: Scholars studying social movement repression and protest policing in the US and abroad have prioritized the identification of, and explanation of, changes in best practice models … Read more
ASA talks by UNC graduate students: Imad Alatas, Nafeesa Andrabi, Alyssa Browne, and Jacob Conley (some presenters will be on Zoom. Jacob Conley's Presentation Imad Alatas' Presentation
"Racial Politics and Social Movements in the Origins of Today's Divided America." By any measure the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from … Read more
“Who Will Care For Us: Long Term Care and the Paraprofessional Workforce” Today there are three million Aides providing long term care and the numbers will double in the coming decades as the demand for long term care grows. These … Read more
