Spring 2016

Spring 2016 Workshop Schedule
Mondays, 12 to 2 p.m.
Department of Sociology
Knox Hall 509 (see map for location)

Monday, January 25
Presenter 1:        Jonathan Lin (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University) & Amsterdam Avenue Team
Paper 1:              Finding a Lost Letter: Neighborhood Gentrification and Social Altruism in Manhattan’s West Side
Discussant 1:      Christel Kesler (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College)

Presenter 2:        Kimberley Johnson (Professor of Political Science and Director of Urban Studies, Barnard College)
Paper 2:             Section 235, HUD and the Origins of the Neo-Liberal Suburb
Discussant 2:     Anthony Urena (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)

Monday, February 29
Presenter 1:        Luisa Heredia (Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, Sarah Lawrence College)
Paper 1:              Building a Movement of “Illegals”: Rejecting Exceptionality, Bridging Criminality, and Challenging Enforcement in Undocumented Youth Organizing
Discussant 1:      Kathleen Griesbach (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)

Presenter 2:        Michele Tuccio (PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Southampton, UK)
Paper 2:              Can I Have Permission to Leave the House?: Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms
Discussant 2:      Yao Lu (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)

Monday, March 28
Presenter 1:         Van Tran (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper 1:              Coming of Age in Multi-Ethnic America: Young Adults’ Experiences with Diversity in Five Cities
Discussant 1:       Harris Beider (Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)

Presenter 2:         Jacob Boersema (Lecturer of Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper 2:               “I am not a racist. I don’t want to be a racist”: White South African Youth and the Struggle to Unlearn Racism
Discussant 2:        Mignon Moore (Associate Professor of Sociology, Barnard College)

Monday, April 25
Presenter 1:          Kathleen Griesbach (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper 1:                Agricultural Workers of the Texas Rio Grande Valley: Liminal Labor Across Borders
Discussant 1:        Mae Ngai (Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, Columbia University)

Presenter 2:         Joss Greene (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)
Paper 2:               Blurring the Work-Life Boundary: Hybrid Ties and Reentry Among Transgender People
Discussant 2:       Terrell Frazier (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Columbia University)

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