Spring 2015

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)

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