Spring 2015 Workshop Schedule
Mondays, 12:10 to 1:30 p.m.
Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race
Hamilton Hall 420 (see map for location)
Monday, February 9
Presenter: Hidetaka Hirota (Lecturer in History, Society of Fellows, Columbia University)
Paper: Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Origins of American Immigration Policy
Discussant: Ian Shin (PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University)
Monday, February 23
Presenter: Jessica Harriet Lee (Ph.D. Candidate in History, Columbia University)
Paper: Marrying the Fascist Cause: Italian Americans Embrace Italianità
Discussant: Antonia Mardones (M.A. Candidate in Anthropology, Columbia University)
Monday, March 9
Presenter: Derron Wallace (Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Education and African and
Afro-American Studies & IUME Faculty Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Paper: Gender Angst & Generational Anxieties?: Exploring Afro-Caribbean Boys’
Immigrant Identities in London and New York
Discussant: Dialika Sall (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, March 23
Presenter: Christina Ciocca (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper: What Matters Most? Analyzing Differential College Dropout by Race and Ethnicity
Discussant: Bailey Brown (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, April 6
Presenter: Brittany N. Fox (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper: Coming of Age in the Broken Windows City
Discussant: Joss Greene (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, April 13
Presenter: Susan Garnett Russell (Assistant Professor in International and Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Paper: When the Past is in the Present: Paradoxes of Post-Conflict Social Cohesion and Inclusion
Discussant: Derron Wallace (Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Education and African and
Afro-American Studies & IUME Faculty Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University)
Monday, April 20
Presenter: Nico Slate (Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University)
Paper: Insane in the Brain: Race, Migration, and Hip Hop in Los Angeles and New York
Discussant: Devon Wade (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, May 4
Presenter: Nicol Valdez (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper: Gendered Outcomes of the Second Generation
Discussant: Kathleen Griesbach (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)