In past years, CWI has welcomed the following speakers to present at our seminar series:<\/p>\n
Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n September 25<\/strong>: Pamela Paxton<\/a><\/strong>, Linda K. George and John Wilson Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin, \u201cThere\u2019s a War Going On\u201d: How Nonprofit Organizations Understand the \u201cRight\u201d Way to Approach Addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n **September 30<\/strong>: Christina J. Cross<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families<\/strong><\/p>\n October 2<\/strong>: Wendy Roth<\/a><\/b>, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Appraising Multiraciality: How Genetic Ancestry Tests, Appearance, and Identity Shape Classifications of Mixed-Ancestry People<\/strong><\/p>\n October 9<\/strong>: Richard Arum<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of California, Irvine, Microaggression, Discrimination and Educational Inequality in Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n November 6<\/strong>: Justin Sola<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Sociology and the School of Data Science and Society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Won\u2019t You Be My Neighbor? Mapping Spatial Preferences<\/strong><\/p>\n November 13<\/strong>: Jayanti Owens<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, The Paradox of Blame in Racialized Organizations: Evaluator Racial Identity, Blaming Organizational Climates, and Racial Inequality in Sanctioning<\/strong><\/p>\n November 20:<\/strong> Sigal Alon<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, What Do Workers Want? A Dynamic Perspective on Work Orientation Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Disruption<\/strong><\/p>\n December 4: Neal Caren<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dare You Fight? W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n Fall 2024 Seminar Schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n September 19<\/strong>: Nora Gross<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Education at Barnard College, Columbia University,\u00a0Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n October 17<\/strong>: Rachel Dwyer<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Racial Segregation and Alternative Financial Services in US States<\/strong><\/p>\n October 31<\/strong>: Matthias Thiemann<\/a><\/strong>, Professor for European Public Policy, Sciences Po Centre des Etudes Europeennes, Taming the Cycles of Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n November 14<\/strong>: Nathan<\/a> Wilmers<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Work and Organizations, MIT Sloan, After Inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n January 23<\/strong>: Liza Steele<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> Associate Professor of Sociology, City University of New York (CUNY), John Jay College of Criminal Justice and\u00a0The Graduate Center, Do COVID-19 experiences break the American consensus on the ideal immigrant? Attitudes toward immigrants and refugees during the pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n January 30<\/strong>: Joanne Golann<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education and Associate Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Catering to the Child: A Video-Ethnographic Study of Parenting Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n February 20<\/strong>: Ethan Raker<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of British Columbia, Flooding, Sociospatial Risk, and Population Health<\/strong><\/p>\n February 27<\/strong>: Jeremy Fiel<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University, Slow Progress: School Finance Reforms and Racial Disparities in Funding<\/strong><\/p>\n March 19<\/strong>: Dafna Gelbgiser<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University, Trends in Socioeconomic Segregation Across Social Contexts in US Higher Education: Evidence from Two Nationally Representative Cohorts of Students<\/strong><\/p>\n April 9<\/strong>: Stephen Vaisey<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Duke University, Advancing Theories and Methods for Understanding Cultural Change<\/strong><\/p>\n April 23<\/strong>: Barbara Kiviat<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, Going Against the Record: How Algorithms Shape the Way Landlords Make Exceptions for Bad Background Checks<\/strong><\/p>\n Fall 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Courtney Boen<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, The Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n Linsey Edwards<\/a>, <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University, Labor Market Disparities in Context: Race, Recession, and the Role of Low Work Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n Sanyu Mojola<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies, Director of the Office of Population Research; Princeton University, Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol<\/strong><\/p>\n Amanda Geller<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society; University of California, Irvine, Aggressive Policing as an Individual and Environmental Social Determinant of Health among Urban Adolescents<\/strong><\/p>\n Blair Sackett<\/a><\/strong>, Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University; and Annette Lareau<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, We Thought It Would be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam Trejo<\/a><\/strong>,<\/a> Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, ‘They have Black in their blood’: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications<\/strong><\/p>\n Natasha Warikoo<\/a><\/strong>, Lenore Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Tufts University, Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n Chantal Hailey<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Racialized-Gendered Vulnerability: A QuantCrit Analysis of Black Families\u2019 School Choices<\/strong><\/p>\n Spring 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Doug Downey<\/a>, <\/strong>Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University, “How Does Schooling Affect Inequality in Cognitive Skills? The View from Seasonal Comparison Research”<\/em><\/p>\n Pilar Gonalons-Pons<\/a>, <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, “The Care Work System. Changes and Continuities in the Provision of Care”<\/em><\/p>\n Michael Walker<\/a>, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “Organizational Patterns of Sleep Hygiene in Jail“<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Kendra Bischoff<\/a>, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, “Demographic Divergence and Local School Funding, 1990-2015”<\/em><\/p>\n Natasha Quadlin<\/span><\/a>, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, “Title TBA”<\/em><\/p>\n Ellen Berrey<\/span><\/a><\/strong>,<\/a> Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto and Alex Hanna<\/a>, <\/strong>Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), “Trends in Higher Education Protest and University and Police Responses in the U.S. and Canada, 2012-2018”<\/em><\/p>\n Fall 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Lauren Valentino<\/a>, <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University, “Deciding What Counts as Discrimination: Cultural Logics of Racism, Sexism, and Classism in the United States”<\/em><\/p>\n Michael Vuolo<\/a>, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University, “Do Audit Experiments Reflect Applicant Behavior? Cautions for Calculations of Probabilities of Success”<\/em><\/p>\n L\u00e9a Pessin<\/a>, <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University, “Gender Equality for Whom?\u00a0The Changing College Education Gradients of The Division of Paid Work and Housework among U.S. Couples, 1968\u20132019″<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Ariela Schachter<\/a>, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, “Inclusive but not Integrative: Ethnoracial Boundaries and the Use of Spanish in the Market for Rental Housing”<\/em><\/p>\n Jordan Conwell<\/a>, <\/strong>Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, “Household Financial Returns to College Quality: Race, Gender, and Social Origins”<\/em><\/p>\n Mark Pachucki<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, <\/em>Laurel Smith-Doerr<\/a>, <\/strong>Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Ethel Mickey<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology at\u00a0California State University, San Bernardino “Centering Equity during Acute Crisis: Analyzing Disparities in COVID-19 Impacts by Faculty Rank, Gender, Race, and Caregiving Status”<\/em><\/p>\n Jennifer Glass<\/a>, <\/strong>Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, “Breadwinning Moms: Understanding the Sweeping Changes in Mothers\u2019 Economic Support of Children Across Class and Race”<\/em><\/p>\n Spring 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n January 20th<\/strong>: Sylvia Fuller<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, “Women managers and the gender wage gap: workgroup gender composition matters”<\/em><\/p>\n February 3rd<\/strong>: Carrie Shandra<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stonybrook, “Between School and Work: Supply and Demand in the Internship Market”<\/em><\/p>\n February 1oth<\/strong>: Emily Rauscher<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University, “Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient”<\/em><\/p>\n February 17th<\/strong>: Marissa Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, IES Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, “Experimental Evidence on Parental Preferences for School Segregation”<\/em><\/p>\n February 24th<\/strong>: Sarah Th\u00e9baud<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara, “<\/span>The Content of Prescriptive and Proscriptive Gender Stereotypes in America: Stability, Change, and Implications for Inequality“<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n March 3rd<\/strong>: Sasha Killewald<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, “Have Changing Family Demographics Narrowed the Gender Wage Gap?”<\/em><\/p>\n March 31st<\/strong>: Sarah Lageson<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, “Criminal Records as Personal Data: Stigma, Surveillance, and Digital Punishment in the Data Brokerage Industry”<\/em><\/p>\n April 14th<\/strong>: Ashton Verdery<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State University<\/p>\n April 21st: