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Fall 2023 Workshop Calendar

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September 14, 2023
Blair Sackett, Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University
Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
"We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America"

September 28, 2023
Mario L. Small, Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University
Jessica Calarco, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
"Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research"

October 12, 2023
Nikhil Goyal, former senior policy advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders
"Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty"

October 26, 2023
Joseph Wallerstein, PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University
“Executive Worldviews and Institutional Norms: The Case of Homelessness- and Housing-Focused Nonprofits"

November 9, 2023
Yanilda González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (rescheduled for Spring 2024)

November 30, 2023
Student presentations

 

Spring 2023 Workshop Calendar

Joseph Ewoodzie Philippe Bourgois Sarah Bruhn 

Peter Harvey C.J. Pascoe Jessica Katzenstein
 

February 9, 2023
Joseph Ewoodzie, Jr., Associate Professor of Sociology and Vann Professor of Racial Justice, Davidson College
“Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South”

March 23, 2023
Philippe Bourgois, Professor of Social Medicine and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
“Incarceration and Mental Illness in the United States: The Case of the Los Angeles County Jail, Largest Locked De Facto Psychiatric Facility in the World”

March 30, 2023
Sarah Bruhn , Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard University
“Schools: Making Real the Promise of Sanctuary”

April 6, 2023
Peter Harvey, Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University 
“‘Good,’ ‘Stupid,’ and ‘Fine’: Teacher-Student Relationships and the Processes of Race and Class Discrimination”

April 13, 2023
Jessica Katzenstein, Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
“Thinking Threat First: Scenario Trainings, Fear, and Police Common Sense”

April 20, 2023
C.J. Pascoe, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
“Nice is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High”

 

Fall 2022 Workshop Calendar

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September 22, 2022
"IRB Advice for Ethnographers at Harvard"
Shannon Sewards, Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects, Harvard IRB, Harvard University

October 6, 2022
Sonic Ethnography Workshop
Ernst Karel, Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard University, featuring:
"Feeling 125th Street," by Ria Gyawali, Doctoral Student in Anthropology, Harvard University
"Scores for Humoral Medicine," by Shireen Hamza, Doctoral Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University
"An Archeology of Pain and Dreams," by Aaron Benavidez, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University
"New Jail," by Parker Hatley, Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Harvard University

November 3, 2022
"Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity"
Armando Lara-Millán, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
*Co-sponsored by the Qualitative Working Group, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

November 17, 2022
"What Do You Do With 11,470 Hours of Video Data?"
Joanne W. Golann, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University

December 1, 2022
"Inequality in 'Post-Crisis' Finance: Apprehending Expropriation in Corporations and Housing"
Karen Ho, Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

 

Spring 2022 Workshop Calendar

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Thursday, March 24, 2022
“Reconstructing Race: New Orleans School Privatization Experiment"
Christien Philmarc Tompkins, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Via Zoom

Thursday, April 28, 2022
“Taking Up Space: Youth Culture and Creative Resistance in a Gentrifying City”
Raquel Jimenez, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

“Soy una Sobreviviente: Sacrificing to Stay in a Gentrifying City”
Sarah Bruhn, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

Moderated by Sharon Cornelisssen, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Via Zoom
 

Fall 2021 Workshop Calendar

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Thursday, October 14, 2021
"Harvard IRB for Ethnographers"
Shannon Sewards, Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB), Harvard University
Via Zoom

Thursday, December 2, 2021
“Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra”
Anima Adjepong, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies, University of Cincinnati
Via Zoom

Spring 2021 Workshop Calendar

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Photograph of Rocio Rosales.  Photograph of Reuben Miller.  Photograph of Orly Clergy.

Thursday, February 11, 2021
Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture
Stefano Bloch, Assistant Professor in the School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Via Zoom

Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
Ranita Ray, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Via Zoom

Thursday, February 25, 2021
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
William Lopez, Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Via Zoom

Thursday, March 11, 2021
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles
Rocío Rosales, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Via Zoom

Thursday, March 25, 2021
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Via Zoom

Thursday, April 8, 2021
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
Orly Clerge, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Via Zoom

Fall 2020 Workshop Calendar

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Thursday, September 17, 2020
“IRB for Ethnographers”
Shannon Sewards, Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB), Harvard University
Via Zoom

Thursday, October 1, 2020
“How Ambiguity around Diversity and Inclusion Turned Pride into Shame” 
Sandra Portocarrero, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Via Zoom

Thursday, October 15, 2020
“Racial Segregation, Predatory Real Estate Practices and the Undermining of Black Neighborhoods in Baltimore.”
Christine Jang-Trettien, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Via Zoom

Thursday, October 29, 2020
“Intergenerational and Collaborative Ethnography with Indigenous Oaxaqueño Mixed-Status Families”
Seth Holmes, Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Via Zoom

Thursday, November 12, 2020
“State’s Structural Violences and the Construction of Femininity in the Colombian ELN Guerrilla Movement”
Attilio Bernasconi, Doctoral Candidate and Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Via Zoom

Thursday, December 3, 2020
“Hit Doctors at Work: Marginality and the Practice of Expertise among People who Inject Drugs”
Sarah Brothers, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Yale University
Via Zoom

Spring 2020 Workshop Calendar

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Thursday, March 5, 2020
 “Producing Luxury, Consuming Women, and Studying Up among the New Global Elite”
Ashley Mears, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston University
1550 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

Nota Bene: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all other workshops were postponed to th e Fall 2020 semester.

Fall 2019 Workshop Calendar

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Thursday, October 10, 2019
"IRB for Ethnographers"
Shannon Sewards, Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects, Harvard University
601 William James Hall
W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar Room

Friday, October 11, 2019
“Disposable Houses: An Ethnography of ‘Unreal Estate’ in Detroit”
Sharon Cornelissen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
One Bow Street, 4th Floor
Co-Sponsored with the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University

Thursday, October 24, 2019
“The American Dream Deferred: Immigrant Educational Incorporation in the New Latino South”
Daphne M. Penn, Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

“Caring State Contra Healthy Society? State-Making And Indigenous Resurgence in Deanuleahki, Sápmi”
Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
1550 William James Hall

Thursday, November 14, 2019
"Post-Disaster Citizenship: Racial Politics after Fukushima"
Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
601 William James Hall
W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar Room