Fall 2014 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, September 8
Presenter: Robert C. Smith (Professor of Sociology, CUNY-Baruch College & Graduate Center)
Topic: Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn… But Check His Papers
Discussant: Nicol M. Valdez (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, September 22
Presenter: Nicolas Legewie (Ph.D. Candidate in Social Science, Humboldt University of Berlin)
Topic: Promotive Narratives: How Stories Can Foster Educational Upward Mobility among Disadvantaged Students
Discussant: Christina Ciocca (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, October 6 (Please note special location for this meeting – Knox Hall 509)
Presenter: Warren McKinney (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Topic: The Legendary Topography of Race: Slavery and Tourism in West Africa
Discussant: Abosede George (Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Barnard College/Columbia University)
Monday, October 20
Presenter: James R. Jones (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Topic: The Raced Identities in White Spaces: The Racialized Professionalized Identity of African American Legislative Staff
Discussant: Kimberley Johnson (Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College/Columbia University)
Monday, November 10
Presenter: Melissa M. Valle (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Topic: If These Walls Could Talk: Community, Conflict and Urban Change in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Discussant: Anthony Ureña (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, November 17
Presenter: Luciana de Souza Leão (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Topic: Neither Black nor White? Pardos and the Brazilian Racial Puzzle
Discussant: Brittany N. Fox (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Monday, December 1
Presenter: Dan J. Wang (Assistant Professor of Management, Columbia University)
Topic: To Stay, Go, or Circulate?: How Cross-border Networks Affect Returnees’ Migration Intentions
Discussant: Christel Kesler (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College/Columbia University)