Workshop Fall 2014

September 8 Matthew W. Hughey Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty, Africana Studies Institute and American Studies Program at the University of Connecticut White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
September 15 Judith B. Gordon Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Member, Yale Interdisciplinary Center on Bioethics and Affiliate of Program in Medical Bioethics, Senior Fellow of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project Changing Social Contexts and Sociological Lives
September 22 John Major Eason Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University Finding Beauty in the Hideous: Prison Placement as Reputation Management
September 29 Carla Shedd Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University Tracking the Carceral Continuum: The Case of NYC Adolescents in the Juvenile Justice System
October 6 Sherri Grasmuck Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University The Highs and Lows of Storytelling in Sociological Analysis: Reflections on Narrative, Objectivity, and Diverse Audience Reception of Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys’ Baseball
October 13 Michael DeLand Postdoctoral Associate, Urban Ethnography Project, Yale University Improv in the Park: The Social Organization of Pick-up Basketball
October 20 Jeffrey Lane Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University The Digital Street
October 27 Forrest Stuart Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Chicago Copwise: The Emerging Cultural Context of Criminalized Urban Communities
November 3 Philip Smith Professor of Sociology at Yale University Small Scale Observational Projects and Visual Sociology: Opportunities for Teaching and Research
November 10 Tony Cheng Graduate Student in the Department of Sociology at Yale University The Paradox of Programs: Explaining Failed Gang Street Outreach Worker Interventions
November 17 Eviatar Zerubavel Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University Observing the Invisible: How to “See” Patterns and Absences
December 1 John Sayles Writer, Director, and Original Independent at Anarchists’ Convention Inc. Exploring Community Through Narrative Film with the Focus on City of Hope