Sociology Department Colloquium Series for Spring 2004
Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:15pm, McNeil Building, Room 103 (unless otherwise noted)

January 14, 2004

Gary Alan Fine, Ph.D.
Northwestern University

"The Cultural Frameworks of Prejudice:
Reputational Images and the Postwar Disjunction of Jews and Communism"

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976. Areas of interest include social psychology, sociology of culture, sociology of science, qualitative sociology, social theory, and collective behavior. Before coming to Northwestern, Dr. Fine was on the faculty of the University of Georgia and the University of Minnesota, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His current research has three distinct streams. First, he is interested in the development of reputations of individuals with "difficult reputations" by means of reputational entrepreneurs (Warren Harding, Benedict Arnold, John Brown, Henry Ford). This research was recently published in Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept and Controversial (University of Chicago Press, 2001).

His current research on reputations deals with reputations and memories of the American left and right during the 1935-1955 period, including the way that Adolf Hitler is remembered in the United States. As an ethnographer, he is completing a book on economic and social organization of art worlds, focusing on contemporary folk art. His current ethnographic work involves operational meteorologists working for the National Weather Service.

CV and Website - http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/sociology/faculty/fine.html

January 21, 2004

Julia Adams, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

"Social Theory, Modernity and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology"

PhD 1990, University of Wisconsin. Her principal scholarly interests revolve around the formation of states and nations; colonialism and empire; gender and sexuality; family, and early modern European politics. Dr. Adams' interests involve the whole gamut of classical and contemporary traditions in social theory -- everything from utilitarianism to post-structuralism and beyond.

Much of her published work has dealt with the role of elite family strategies and practices in the politico-economic development of European states; the vicissitudes of agency relations in colonial empires; and the mileage that social scientists, feminist theorists and historians get from different ways of theorizing politics and states.

Website and CV - http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/show-person.asp?PeopleID=63

February 4, 2004

Andrew Schrank, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University

"Homeward Bound? Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform."

Dr. Andrew Schrank is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University. He works on the sources and consequences of foreign investment, local entrepreneurship, and economic transformation in the Third World. He has undertaken fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and hopes to add more countries to the list in the near future. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the social foundations of economic diversification in the Caribbean Basin.

Webpages:
Bio and CV: http://www.yale.edu/socdept/faculty/schrank.html
http://www.yale.edu/socdept/aboutfaculty.html#Schrank

Email: andrew.schrank@yale.edu

February 18, 2004

Sarah Fenstermaker, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, UC Santa Barbara

"Twenty Years of 'Doing Gender': Ruminations on Theories of Gender and The Feminist Dialogue"

Sarah Fenstermaker is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has been on the Santa Barbara faculty for over 25 years. Dr. Fenstermaker was the founding chair of Women's Studies at UC Santa Barbara, has served as a dean in the UCSB Graduate Division, as well as Divisional Vice-Chair of the UCSB Academic senate. Her research on women and work, domestic labor, family violence, and theories on the accomplishment of gender, race, and class have resulted in a long list of publications.

In 1998, along with her co-author, Candace West Dr. Fenstermaker was the recipient of the ASA's "Distinguished Article in Gender" awarded by the ASA. Her recent publications include an edited volume, INDIVIDUAL VOICES, COLLECTIVE VISIONS: FIFTY YEARS OF WOMEN IN SOCIOLOGY, co-authored with Ann Goetting and published by Temple University Press. Her most recent book published by Routledge, and co-authored with Candace West, is DOING GENDER, DOING DIFFERENCE: INEQUALITY, POWER, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. It represents 20 years of work on gender, and will serve as one focus of her talk at Penn. Dr. Fenstermaker's current projects include a study of the way police and prosecutorial organizations define and manage hate crime.

Website -  http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/fenstermaker.htm

Tuesday, February 24, 2004
McNeil Building, Room 167-8

Dalton Conley, Ph.D.
New York University

“Sibship size and birth-order effects on educational investment and achievement"

Dalton Conley is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at New York University and Director of NYU's Center for Advanced Social Science Research (CASSR). He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has taught at Yale and Princeton as well.

His scholarly research focuses on how socio-economic status is transmitted across generations and the public policies that affect that process. In this vein, he studies siblings differences in socioeconomic success, racial inequalities, the measurement of class and social status, and how health and biology affect (and are affected by) social position.

Website and Vita - http://home.nyu.edu/~dc66/

February 25, 2004

Robin Leidner, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Sociology

"Playing with Race: Theatrical Casting and the Limits of Make-Believe"

Robin Leidner is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include: Sociology of Work; Sociology of Gender; Parenting; Feminist Movement/Organizations.

Website and CV  -  http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/People/leidnerrobin.htm

March 3, 2004

Paul DiMaggio, Ph.D.
Princeton University

"Digital Inequality"

Paul DiMaggio has written widely on organizational analysis, focusing on nonprofit and cultural organizations. Among the several books he has written or edited are The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis and Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of Economic Life. His interests include the sociology of art and culture, the study of complex organizations, social stratification, network analysis, and economic sociology.

Website and publications - http://sociology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/faculty.php#dimaggio

March 24, 2004

Wendell Pritchett, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Law School

"What's a City For? Or, How I Learned to Stop Woryying and Love the Hood."

Tuesday, March 30th, 12.00 noon
Old Hillel, Room 107
Co-Sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies

Hyun Ok Park, Asst. Prof. of Sociology, New York University
"The Fragmentary Politics of Law, Memories, and Migrant Workers: Korean Chinese, North Koreans and Guest Workers in South Korea"

East Asian Social Science Seminar and Korean Lecture Series Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/)

Web site for the speaker:
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/Faculty/ParkHyun.html

March 31, 2004

Doug Guthrie, Ph.D.
NYU

"The House that Reagan Built: Corporate-Community Relations in the Age of Deregulation."

Doug Guthrie is Associate Professor, Institute of Law and Society. In addition to continuing research on economic and social change in China, he is currently working on two other projects. The first is a project funded by the Ford Foundation involving a three-city study of corporate-community relations and the conditions under which corporations invest in urban communities. The second is an analysis of the effect of state statutory law and federal appellate court jurisdictions on the decisions and practices of U.S. corporations.

Webpage: http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/dougguthrie.html

April 7, 2004 - in the Terrace Room, Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania

Lawrence Bobo, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Co-Sponsor: Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

"A Taste for Punishment: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs"

Lawrence Bobo, Ph.D. is the Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up in Los Angeles. He received a B.A. in sociology from Loyola Marymount University in 1979 and both the M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) in sociology from the University of Michigan. From 1984 through 1990 he was in the sociology department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1990 through spring of 1997 he was in UCLA's sociology department where he served, at various times, as Associate Chair, Program Director for Survey Research, and Director of the Center for Research on Race, Politics, and Society.

He is currently finishing a monograph on the sociology of prejudice and editing a special issue of Social Psychology Quarterly on race. And he is undertaking new research on African Americans during the 2000 presidential election (with Professor Michael C. Dawson), and on the intersection of race, crime, and public policy. During 2003-2004 he will serve as Acting Chair of the African and African American Studies Department and Acting Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute.

Full CV and Bio - http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/bobo/

April 21, 2004

Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, Sociology

"Prevalence, Predictors, and Associated Outcomes of Multiple Cohabitation Among Young Adults"

The delay of marriage has coincided with the rise of cohabitation, though a smaller proportion of cohabitations are ending in marriage. As such, the risk of experiencing more than one cohabitation before marriage has increased. However, we know little about the prevalence of or who has multiple cohabitations, nor do we know whether having multiple cohabitations is related to other family formation behaviors.

Dr. Guzzo is a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn, working with Frank Furstenberg. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the summer of 2003, under the advisement of Ronald Rindfuss. Her research interests are family formation, particularly cohabitation and marriage, nonmarital and multiple partner fertility, and racial, ethnic, and class differences in union and fertility behaviors. Dr. Guzzo has also done work on the international context of, and responses to, low fertility.

April 28, 2004

Karyn Lacy, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation and Assistant Professor, Emory University.

"Uncovering Micromechanisms in the Negotiation of Racial Stigma."

Karyn Lacy is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and Assistant Professor, Emory University. (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000).

Her current research includes: social relations in suburbia; cultural reproduction within the Black middle-class; social identity construction; residential segregation trends; racial attitudes; neighborhood associations. Her dissertation was: Negotiating Black Identities: The Construction and Use of Social Boundaries among Middle-Class Black Suburbanites.

Bio: http://www.emory.edu/SOC/faculty.html

CV and Syllabi: http://www.emory.edu/SOC/klacy/Index.html

May 5, 2004

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D.
is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, England.

"Consuming the Caribbean: Global Mobilities and Ethical Consumption in the Atlantic World"

Mimi Sheller is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, England. She is the author of Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean, 2000) and Consuming the Caribbean: from Arawaks to Zombies (Routledge, 2003); and co-editor of Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration (Berg, 2003) and Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play (Routledge, 2004). She is Co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster, and Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK).

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