Past Events

Pettit is the Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a sociologist, trained in demographic methods, with interests in social inequality broadly defined.

Liana C. Sayer is Director of the Maryland Time Use Laboratory and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Her research explores vital questions on when, where and how time use matters, and for whom, over time and space.

Brown is an accomplished novelist, non-fiction writer, and folklorist whose major works include Days Without Weather (1983), Coming Up Down Home (1993), and Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department? (2007).

Frederick Wherry is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Director of the Dignity and Debt Network, a partnership between the Social Science Research Council and Princeton.

Morning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and a demographer whose research focuses on race.

A national panel including Odis Johnson, professor of education and sociology, will take place over Zoom.