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Richard W. Garnett, Shadi Hamid, Kristen Deede Johnson, Yuval Levin and John Inazu
Change Gon’ Come
Black Anthology 2023
Relationships in Grad School Dinner Talk
You're invited to our relationships in grad school dinner talk!
The Experience: Cathartic Writing, Collectivity, and Care Among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants
Angela Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Subaltern Epistemologies of Health: Collaborative Ethnographies from Colombia
Cesar Abadia-Barrero, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
The Department of Sociology Spring 2023 Film Series Presents: "Our America: Lowballed"
The Department of Sociology will be holding a special screening of the ABC News documentary titled, "Our America: Lowballed". This documentary features one of our very own Sociology faculty, Professor Elizabeth Korver-Glenn.
Humanities and the City
Panel discussion featuring Washington University faculty in conversation with Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Davarian Baldwin
The Department of Sociology Spring 2023 Film Series Presents: "Clusterluck"
The Department of Sociology will be holding a special screening of the award-winning documentary titled, "Clusterluck". This short film was produced by one of our very own Sociology affiliates, Dr. Candace Hall.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
AFAS Featured Event: Works of Dr. Zachary Manditch-Prottas & Dr. Gabriel Peoples
Dr. Zachary Manditch-Prottas, a lecturer in African and African American Studies and American Culture Studies & Dr. Gabriel Peoples, Ford Foundation Fellow Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University will both present their works-in-progress
Forum on Medicine, Race, and Ethnicity in St. Louis, Past to Future
All are welcome to this community-building gathering and discussion of critical questions on health and well-being, illness and care for our diverse St Louis community.
Forum on Medicine, Race, and Ethnicity in St. Louis, Past to Future
All are welcome to this community-building gathering and discussion of critical questions on health and well-being, illness and care for our diverse St. Louis community.
The Importance of Racial Socialization Messages in the Lives of African-American Youth
Sheretta Butler-Barnes, Associate Professor, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
In Conversation with Michelle Alexander
Fannie Bialek (Religion & Politics) discusses the state of legal and social movements against mass incarceration with best-selling author, legal scholar, and social justice activist Michelle Alexander
Recipe as a Bodily Text
Suyoung Son, associate professor in Asian studies, Cornell University
The Department of Sociology Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Joya Misra
On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Joya Misra. Dr. Misra is the Provost Professor and Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research considers intersectional inequalities and policy solutions at both workplace and societal levels. She is currently President-Elect of the American Sociological Association.
The Objects that Remain: Criminal Evidence, Holocaust Artifacts, and Work of Doing Justice
Laura Levitt is Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University
The Department of Sociology Spring 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Whitney Pirtle
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Whitney Pirtle. Dr. Whitney Pirtle is an Associate Professor of Sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced, where she also directs the Sociology of Health and Equity (SHE) Lab. Her latest research includes writing on Covid-19 pandemic inequities from the standpoint of the Black Radical Tradition. She is the co-editor, with Zakiya Luna, of Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis with Routledge Press. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, one of race in post-apartheid South Africa and the other is under contract with Polity Press tentatively titled, Black Identities: The Expansiveness of Blackness in the US.
AFAS Featured Hybrid Event: Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil
Black Feminist Activism & Politics in Brazil: A Conversation & Documentary Screening co-sponsored by the Department of African & African American Studies, the Department of Music, Latin American Studies Program, & the Office of the Provost at WashU.
AFAS Featured Event: Virtual Roundtable on Reproductive Justice; The Social, Political, & Legal Implications of the Overturning of Roe vs Wade
The Department of African & African American Studies Speaker Committee presents the Spring Series "Future of Sex" virtual roundtable. This roundtable focuses on the direction of reproductive justice and its potential negative or positive implications on public health.
"On the Aesthetics of Black Inexpression"
Tina Post, Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Chicago
Activism, Scholarship, and Radical Self-Care: a Conversation with ericka huggins
Come join the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows for the 2023 virtual symposium.
Kimberly Templeton Lecture on Sex and Gender in Medicine
Marianne Legato, MD
Emerita Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University
Founder and Director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine
AFAS Featured Event: Talk with Maya Berry The Black Corporeal Undercommons in Post-Fidel Cuba
Historic expansion of market reforms in post-Fidel Revolutionary Cuba has contributed to increasingly stark racialized class inequality on the island. The contours of these socioeconomic changes are felt and mediated by Black people in distinctly gendered ways. In this talk, based on ethnographic fieldwork with rumberos (rumba performers) between 2012 and 2018, the embodied practices of African-inspired faith systems are engaged as means for ritual kin to form a space of well-being autonomous from the state and its development designs.
TRIADS Speaker Series: Beyond Protests: Using Computational Text Analysis to Explore a Greater Variety of Social Movement Activities
Gendering Male Dan: Jingju Male Cross-Gender Performers and Performance in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era
Yan Ma, postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures, Washington University
Sociology Late Night Study Sessions
They're back! Late Night Study Sessions are returning to WashU SOC, just in time for Spring 2023 Finals!
Sociology Honors Thesis Symposium
During this symposium, members of the 2023 Sociology Honors Thesis Program Cohort will share their year-long original research projects.
Sociology Commencement Open House
Join the WashU Department of Sociology for a Commencement Open House in honor of our graduating seniors!
College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony
TRIADS Design Workshop – From Ideas to Action
Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
Bear Beginnings: Sociology Open House
Bear Beginnings: Faculty Spotlight with Prof. Caitlyn Collins
Faculty Spotlights feature faculty presentations on disciplinary and departmental areas of interest and expertise. During this event, we will provide a sneak peek of the classroom atmosphere, introduce key ideas central to the study of Sociology, and feature faculty work being done in our department.
Statistics and Data Science Seminar - Adaptive Variational Bayes: Optimality, Computation and Applications
Lizhen Lin, University of Maryland
Sports & Society Reading Group: Big Money in Sports
Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration: Noche de Cultura
Bienvenidos a la celebracion de la Herencia Hispana!
Pizza with the Profs
Pizza with the Profs is an opportunity for students to casually gather with Sociology faculty members outside of the classroom over lunch.
Weird Barbie: Feminist, Queer, and Industry Issues in Greta Gerwig's Blockbuster
Office of Graduate Studies Fall Open House
Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences’ Open House taking place in-person on Saturday, September 30, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Charles F. Knight Center.
Sociology @ A&S Major-Minor Fair
Choosing a major is a tough decision. Preview what each program has to offer at the A&S Major-Minor Fair!
ITF Future Fridays: Foster Care Systems
Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer Presents: Seen & #Cited
Join WashU's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and the Department of African and African-American Studies for an upcoming talk by Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer about 'seeing and citing black women's unsung brilliance and flame-keeping while doing intellectual battles and breaking institutional barriers to build publicly engaged archives and art exhibitions.'
S33n & #Cited: Dawn-Elissa Fischer Lecture
An associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at San Francisco State University, Dr. Fischer teaches courses about racism, gender, globalization, hiphop, and virtual ethnography.
Moving Stories: Migration, Advocacy, Art, and Scholarship in Conversation
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Joel Mittleman
On Monday, October 23, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Joel Mittleman. Joel Mittleman is the William P. and Hazel B. White Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is affiliated with the Gender Studies Program and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity. Mittleman’s research analyzes inequality in schools and society with a focus on sexuality and LGBTQ+ populations. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, and Gender & Society, among other venues, and has received outstanding article awards from the Inequality, Poverty and Mobility, Sociology of Population and Sociology of Education sections of the ASA. Currently, Mittleman is a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, working on a new, nonbinary history of educational stratification in America.
Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor, Vice Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity and Professor of Sociology at Washington University, is a leading sociologist and a celebrated author who researches racial and gender inequality in professional occupations.
Graduate Program Virtual Information Session
Following the successful reopening of the Sociology Department in the Fall of 2015, including the hiring of numerous faculty members in recent years, the establishment of a thriving undergraduate major and minor, and the implementation of a successful postdoctoral program, we are excited to continue this momentum through our growing PhD Program in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis!
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Samuel Kye
On Thursday, October 26, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Samuel Kye. Dr. Kye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Baylor University, where he is also an External Faculty Affiliate of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in the Fall of 2021 after completing a year of postdoctoral research with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2020 from Indiana University. Sam’s research examines racial inequality in the metropolitan United States. He is particularly interested in the mechanisms that facilitate or prevent the formation of racially diverse and integrated neighborhoods. His primary work involves analysis of both U.S. Census and individual-level data to understand how and why residential segregation persists. His other projects have examined—and sought to improve—the methods researchers use to assess neighborhood racial/ethnic change and stability. He also researches trends in Asian American (racialized) assimilation, with a keen interest in the rise of “ethnoburb” communities. You can find some of his published work in Demography, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Methods & Research, Social Science Research, and Annual Review of Sociology. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation GRFP and the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University.
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Megan Neely
On Monday, October 30, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Megan Neely. Dr. Neely is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School and a faculty affiliate of Stanford University’s Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab. She studied workplace and economic inequality through the lens of gender, race, and social class. Her current research investigates how gender, race, and social class influence access to earnings and capital in some of the wealthiest industries in the United States. Her recent book, Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (2022, University of California Press), presents an insider’s look at the inner workings of the notoriously rich and secretive U.S. hedge fund industry. Her first book, Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance (2020, Oxford University Press) with Ken-Hou Lin, demonstrates why widening inequality in the United States cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research from 2017-2020. In 2017, she graduated with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Pumpkin Painting Party!
Enjoy some festive fall fun with Sociology!
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Darwin Baluran
On Monday, November 6, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Darwin Baluran. Dr. Darwin A. Baluran is a postdoctoral scholar at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Science in Health Systems Management from Loyola University Chicago, where he was also a McNair scholar. He conducts research at the intersection of race, health, and criminology/criminal justice. And his work engages the literatures from the sociology of race, ethnicity, and migration; criminology, law, and society; policing and criminal justice; Ethnic Studies; medical sociology; and demography. His transdisciplinary scholarship aims to theoretically unpack and empirically analyze the logics that uphold racial domination to uncover the mechanisms that reproduce racial inequality across various domains of social life, from criminal legal contact to health and mortality. His research has been published in Demography, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The British Journal of Criminology, and Population Research and Policy Review, among others.
Mellon Mays Information Session
Join us November 8, 2023, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Cupples II L009 to learn more about the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Heather O'Connell
On Thursday, November 9, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Heather O'Connell. Dr. O'Connell graduated with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on understanding race and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States. While pursuing this objective, she has given notable attention to the enduring structural consequences of historical institutions, particularly slavery and, most recently, public Confederate monuments.
Carry Your Weight: Sexual Violence on College Campuses
SLIFF: Human Ties spotlight
Free screenings of the Human Ties spotlight films, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival
‘The Apology’ Screening & Discussion
Human Ties spotlight, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival
‘Bike Vessel’ Screening
Human Ties spotlight, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival
‘The Body Politic’ Screening
Human Ties spotlight, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival
‘Racist Trees’ Screening & Discussion
Human Ties spotlight, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
On Monday, November 13, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. Dr. Wrigley-Field is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. A sociologist and demographer, she studies racial inequality in mortality in the historical and contemporary United States, and specializes in finding comparisons and metrics that illuminate the human meaning of mortality disparities. She has extensively researched the Covid-19 pandemic in Minnesota, where she also co-founded an award-winning community vaccination organization (the Seward Vaccine Equity Project). She is also a demographic methodologist, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on population processes.
Americanist Dinner Forum: What Else Can Borders Do? Architecture, Infrastructure, and Enactment
All are invited for dinner and conversation on Tuesday, November 14th at 5:30pm at Keuhner Court in Weil Hall.
The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
Mark R. Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare, Brown School, Washington University
‘Birthing Justice’ Screening & Discussion
Human Ties spotlight, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, at the St. Louis Film Festival
The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Lincoln Quillian
On Wednesday, November 29, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Lincoln Quillian. Lincoln Quillian is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1997. He is interested in social stratification, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, and quantitative research methods. Most of his research has focused on how social structure and group demography influence inequality, intergroup attitudes, discrimination, and neighborhood segregation. In recent years, he has published on how multiple forms of segregation combine to produce neighborhood poverty concentration and on understanding racial discrimination in hiring through meta-analysis of field experiments. His work has appeared as publications in journals including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Demography, and Social Forces. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. He is the chair-elect of the American Sociological Association Section on Methodology.
PGSA - “Workshop: Productivity Tips Using Coding Assistance for R/Python,”
Tan Nguyen
Black Studies Articulations in the Social Sciences - Graduate Student Roundtable
Join us for an in person graduate student roundtable discussion!