| SOCIOLOGY FALL 2008 COLLOQUIUM SERIES
(Check this link for the complete listing as it develops...)
Wednesdays from 12:00 - 1:15pm
Room 103 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk,
University of Pennsylvania
(unless otherwise noted)
Friday, October 10. 2008
From 2.00-3.30
Alford Young - Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
“Black Men, Racefulness, and Getting Ahead in American Society: A Cultural Paradigm Reconstituted.”
103 McNeil Building,
3718 Locust Walk
University of Pennsylvania
“[Professor Young] is currently pursuing research in three general areas, all of which concern the phenomenon of race or the social experiences of African Americans, and all of which employ ethnographic interview-based research methods. “
Website for CV and current research: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/show-person.asp?PeopleID=45
October 15 – Jennifer Lee – University of California, Irvine
"Post-Racial America? Multiracial Identification and the Color Line in the 21st Century."
"Jennifer Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She is author of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2002) and co-editor of Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (with Min Zhou, Routledge, 2004), which was named the 2006 Outstanding Book Award from the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association. She is currently working on two research projects that stem from her theoretical interests in the intersection of immigration and race/ethnicity. The first examines how immigration and racial/ethnic diversity affect multiracial identification. Using data from the 2000 Census combined with in-depth interviews, she and Frank D. Bean study the way in which interracial couples identify their children and multiracial adults negotiate their identities. She is also working with Min Zhou on a study of the multifaceted experiences of immigrant and intergenerational mobility in Los Angeles. "
For more information, including publications, please see Dr. Lee's webpage at http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4667
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The 2008-09 Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop presents:
The Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop is sponsored by the Sociology Department at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, contact Prof. David Grazian at dgrazian@soc.upenn.edu.
The remaining fall schedule includes:
Friday, Oct. 17, 2-4pm
Robert Courtney Smith
Associate Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies, and Public Affairs, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Prof. Smith is the author of Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Robert Park Award of the ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section, and the 2008 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.
Friday, Nov. 7, 2-4pm
Tammy L. Anderson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
Prof. Anderson is the coauthor of “Solidarity and Drug Use in the Electronic Dance Music Scene” (with Philip R. Kavanaugh), Sociological Quarterly 49 (2008): 181-208.
The Family/Gender Workshop Series
The next meeting of the Family/Gender Workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, October 8, from 8:30-9:45a.m. in the Sociology conference room. The next presenter is Alessandro Gentile: Title: "Emerging Labor Uncertainty and Transition to Adulthood."
Updated Schedule
September 24: Caroline Sten
October 8: Alessandro Gentile: Title: "Emerging Labor Uncertainty and Transition to Adulthood."
October 22: TBN
November 5: Arielle Kuperberg
November 19: Zoua Vang
December 3: TBN
Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Workshop Series
With the start of a new semester, we're excited to announce the first meeting of the Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Workshop. The workshop welcomes any and all interested students and faculty to join the email list (please contact rorya@sas.upenn.edu or ruthh@sas.upenn.edu to be added) and to come to our meetings. The workshop will not only provide opportunities to hear scholars from other institutions talk about their work, but it is also a place for graduate students and faculty here at Penn to present their own work in progress on the topics of race, ethnicity and immigration.
Next meeting TBA
International Development Workshop Series, Fall 2008
122 College Hall
4:30pm- 6:00pm
Refreshments will be served.
For more information visit the website at: www.upenn.edu/provost/idw
Paul Collier
Oxford University , Department of Economics
September 23, 2008
Mark Rosenzweig
Yale University , Department of Economics
October 7, 2008
Michael Trebilcock
University of Toronto , Faculty of Law
October 28, 2008
Daniel Kaufmann
World Bank, Director of Global Programs and Governance
December 1, 2008
Sociology
News and Sociology in the News
Fall 2008
Dr. Melissa Wilde has received the 2008 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for her book, Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change (Princeton University Press, 2007) She will receive the award in Louisville on October 18th.
Spring 2008
Christopher Falcone has been selected by the faculty of the Penn Sociology Department to receive this year’s E. Digby Baltzell Award for writing the finest undergraduate thesis among his graduating peers, “Privacy and the Presentation of Self in Online Social Networks.” This award is named for the renowned Penn sociologist and author of Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (1958), The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (1964), and Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). In Baltzell’s honor, we extend our heartiest congratulations to Chris for his hard work and deserved accomplishment. We also extend our gratitude to his advisor, Prof. Robin Leidner, for her learned guidance throughout the many stages of his excellent research project.
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Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows on the Job Market
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Open Positions and Fellowships - National and International Organizations
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06-Oct-2008
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