Fall 2025
Thursday, September 4:
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University
Public Scholarship in These Times (graduate student luncheon)
11:30am-1:00pm, The Grad Lounge (388, Uris Hall)
Friday, September 5:
Kevin Guyan, University of Edinburgh
Rainbow Trap: The Politics of gender, Sex and Sexuality Categories
3:00-4:15pm, 291 Clark Hall (CCSS) -- Reception to Follow
Friday, October 31:
Philip Cohen, University of Maryland
Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists
1:25-2:40pm, location TBA
Friday, November 14:
Erika Abbott, Cornell University
Recipients' Experiences of the Evolving Tax-Based Safety Net: The Case of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit
3:00-4:15pm, G08 Uris Hall
Friday, November 21:
Haowen Zheng, Cornell University
Occupational Restructuring and the Decline of Internal Migration by College Status, 1980-2019
3:00-4:15pm, G08 Uris Hall
Spring 2025
Monday, February 24:
Sirui Wang
Sources of Regional Advantage: Emergence of a Global Knowledge Economy
4:00-5:30pm, G08 Uris Hall
Thursday, April 17:
Paul DiMaggio
Public Opinion and the Crisis of American Science
4:30-6:00pm, 108 Guerlac Room, AD White House (Reception to follow)
Friday, April 25:
Bart Bonikowski
National Identification on Twitter or How to Find a Needle in a Haystack with LLMs
3:00-4:15pm, 291 Clark Hall (CCSS room)
Fall 2024
Friday, December 6:
Nate Breznau (Social Science Researcher, SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy)
Open Science, Multiverse Analysis & Preferences for Redistribution
3-4:15pm, G08 Uris Hall (Reception to follow in 388 Uris Hall)
Spring 2024
Friday, February 2:
Derek Hyra (Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University)
Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur
3-4:15pm, G08 Uris Hall (Reception to follow in 388 Uris Hall)
Friday, March 1:
Alyssa Goldman (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College)
Is a dose of connection the key to prevention?
3-4:15, G08 Uris Hall (Reception to follow in 388 Uris Hall)
Friday, March 8:
Lynne Haney (Professor of Sociology, NYU)
Prisons of Debt: State Hybridity and the Criminalization of Child Support
3:30-4:30pm, 700 Clark Hall (Reception to follow in 391 Clark Hall)
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality and the Cornell Center for Social Sciences and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.
Thursday, March 28:
Koji Chavez (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University)
Hiring Folks for Diversity: Diversity Commodification of Gender and Race in Software Engineering Hiring Across Job Transitions
4:30-6:00pm, 401 Physical Sciences Building (PSB)
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality and the Cornell ILR School and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.
Friday, April 12:
Daniel McFarland (Professor of Education, Sociology, and Organizational Behavior, Stanford University)
The Research University as a Field of Power
3-4:15pm, G08 Uris Hall (Reception to follow in 388 Uris Hall)
Thursday, April 25:
Jake Rosenfeld (Professor of Sociology, Washington University at St. Louis)
Title: TBA
Hosted by the Center for the Study of Inequality and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.
Friday, April 26:
Michael Rodríguez Muñiz (Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley)
Title: TBA
Friday, May 3:
Ann Swidler (Professor of the Graduate School/ Sociology, UC Berkeley)
Folk Epistemologies of Religious Competition in Malawi: Implications for Religious Change
3:00-4:15, G08 Uris Hall