Sociology Colloquium Events

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

 

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