2011-2012 Seminars
Fall 2011
► September 19
"Go with Your Gut: Emotion and Stratification in Hiring"
Lauren Rivera, Assistant Professor of Management & Organization, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
“Market-Building and the Ecology of Political Contention in the American West, 1890-1896”
"The Lure of the Virtual"
Stephen Barley, The Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University, cosponsored by the Keller Center, School of Engineering and Applied Science
► October 17
"The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge"
Donald MacKenzie, Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
Job practice talk
Carol Ann MacGregor, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
► December 5
"Accounting for the Gap: A Field Experiment Manipulating Organizational Accountability in Pay Decisions"
Emilio J. Castilla, Associate Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring 2012
►February 13
"Economic Categories in Neoliberal Society"
Marion Fourcade, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley
► February 27
"The Assumptions That Ground the Field: A Mid-Range Agenda for Economic Sociology"
Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
► March 12 (cancelled)
"Imaginary Moneys: Transactions, Markets, and the State in Haiti"
Federico Neiburg, Professor of Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Migration and Development, the Council for the Humanities, and the Department of Anthropology
► April 2
"Flexibility on the Job and at Home: The Importance of Gender and Class"
Naomi Gerstel, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; 2011-2012 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation
► April 23 (cancelled)
"Global Corporate Citizenship and the 'Girl Effect'"
Elizabeth Bernstein, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Sociology, Barnard College; Member, Institute for Advanced Study 2011-2012.
► April 30
"Turning Regression Inside Out: How to Make the Most of 'General Linear Reality' in the Study of Social Organization"
Ronald Breiger, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
► April 30 (4:30-6pm, 300 Wallace Hall)
Second Annual Theorodology Prize Lecture
Honoring Harrison White, Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
Panelists:
Peter Bearman, Cole Professor of the Social Sciences; Director, PFL Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University
Ronald Breiger, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
Ann Mische, Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey