Past Papers
Spring 2023
| Apr 13: | Choon Hwee Koh, “Phatic Numbers and Quantification in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Relay Postal System” |
| Apr 20: | Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar, “Time and Tide: Temporal Inequalities in Residential Decisions around Climate Change” |
| Apr 27: | Katherine Jensen, “Racialized Logics and Bureaucratic Mandates: Immigrant Legalization and The Production of Differential Belonging” |
| May 11: | Roger Waldinger, Nathan Hoffmann, and Peter Catron, “Impeding Access: Immigrants and Naturalization in Early Twentieth-Century America” |
| May 18: | Kevin Wei Luo, “Securing the Countryside: Varieties of Rural State Building in China, Vietnam, Taiwan,and South Korea during the Cold War” |
| Jun 1: | Iddo Tavory, “Kill Your Darlings: Patterns of Attachment and Detachment” |
Winter 2023
| Jan 19: | Andrew Chalfoun, Giovanni Rossi, and Tanya Stivers, “To Err Is Human But To Persist Is Diabolical: Rebuking Departures In Social Interaction” |
| Jan 26: | César J. Ayala, “The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism” |
| Feb 9: | Abigail Weitzman, “It’s Complicated: Migration Motivations Among Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants in Need of International Protection in Costa Rica” |
| Feb 16: | Max Besbris, “A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Temporality, Help-Seeking, and Stigma after Disaster” |
| Mar 1: | Yael Berda, “Hybrid Bureaucracy: How racial domination shaped organizations – contemporary lessons from colonial administrations in the British Empire” |
| Mar 9: | Marco Garrido, “Corruption as Socially Embedded.” Co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. |
Fall 2022
| Oct 6: | Daniel Laurison, “Missing Voices: An Alternative Explanation for Economic Inequality in Political Participation” |
| Oct 13: | Gilad Wenig, “Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution” |
| Oct 27: | Josh Pacewicz, “Why did Jay Ashcroft go to St Louis?” (chapter from Architects of the Divided States) |
| Nov 3: | Adrienne Sörbom, “Discreet Diplomacy: Practices of Secrecy in Transnational Think Tanks” (co-authored with Christina Garsten) |
| Nov 10: | Dorit Geva, “Beyond Populism: The European Far Right and its Statist Ambitions” |
| Nov 17: | John Clegg, “Slavery’s Carceral Legacy in the Postbellum South” |
Spring 2022
| Apr 7: | Jenifer Bratter, Rice University, “Biracial or Black When Saying ‘I Do’: Considering Racial Differences in Delays to Marriage for Black, White, and Black-White Women” |
| Apr 28: | Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, “Colorblind or Color Conscious? Millennials and Corporate Diversity Ideology” |
| May 12: | Bowei Hu, UCLA, “Families in the Red: How Banking Systems Drive Household Debt” |
| May 19: | Whitney Laster Pirtle, UC Merced, “Centering Race, Centering ‘Coloured’ South Africans” |
| Jun 2: | Brandon Andrew Robinson, UC Riverside, “Super Straights: On Transphobia, Genital Preferences, and the White Supremacy of Hyper-Normal Heterosexual Identity” |
Winter 2022
| Jan 13: | Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, “Tilly Goes to Church: The Medieval and Religious Roots of the European State” |
| Jan 27: | Michael McCarthy, Marquette University, “The Problem of Class Abstraction: Culture and Class Formation in Social Theory” |
| Feb 17: | Ricado Jacobs, UC Santa Barbara, “Land for Livelihoods: Urban Agriculture and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century” |
| Feb 24: | Jennifer Derr, UC Santa Cruz, “Digging Up the Environment in the Practice of Medicine: The Trajectories of Liver Disease in Twentieth-Century Egypt” |
| Mar 3: | Nicholas DiRago, UCLA, “Organizational Heterogeneity and Urban Political Economy: How Land Banks Govern Property in Abandoned Neighborhoods in the United States, 2009–2019” |
| Mar 10: | Drew Halfmann, UC Davis, “Presidential Framing of Health Inequalities by Race and Income” |
Fall 2021
| Sept 30: | Michael Mann, UCLA, “Reflections on the Causes and Rationality of War” |
| Oct 7: | Wisam Alshaibi, UCLA, “Transnational Political Opposition and Domestic Foreign Policy Elites: The Making of Regime Change in Iraq” |
| Oct 14: | Michele Bratcher Goodwin, UC Irvine, “Law and Anti-Blackness” |
| Oct 28: | Aaron Panofsky, UCLA, “Plus ça Change: Intelligence, Behavior, and Race” |
| Nov 4: | Audrye Wong, University of Southern California, “Divide to Conquer? How Authoritarian Regimes Use Wedge Narratives to Marginalize Diaspora Communities” |
| Nov 18: | Alden Young, UCLA, “Remaking the Kingdom of Kush: The Greater Horn of Africa in the Imagination of Hajj Hamad” |
| Dec 2: | Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, “The Dollar Cycle of International Development, 1973–2017” and “Repressing Labor, Empowering China” |
Spring 2021
| Apr 8: | Dan Slater, University of Michigan, “Populism and the Past: Restoring, Retaining, and Redeeming the Nation” |
| Apr 22: | Lachlan McNamee, UCLA, “Unsettled Frontiers: The Rise and Fall of Settler Colonialism” |
| May 13: | Andrew Schrank, Brown University, “Consumer Protection and the Contractor State: The Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Dominican Republic” |
| May 20: | Egor Lazarev, Yale University, “State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya” |
| May 27: | Jonah Stuart Brundage, Michigan University, “Representation and Recognition: State Sovereignty as Performative” |
Winter 2021
| Jan 28: | Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University, “Competition and Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Evidence from the Green Books” |
| Feb 11: | Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California, “Don’t Kill the Messenger: Strategic Uses of Collective Memory and the Identity Politics of Cultural Resonance” |
| Feb 25: | Yan Long, Berkeley, “Datafying Human Rights? The Enactment and Rejection of Reactivity in Chinese AIDS Activism, 2006-2018” |
| Mar 4: | Ian Grey, UCLA, “Multilateralism of the Marginal: How the ‘Global South’ Finds its Voice in International Political Deliberations” |
| Mar 11: | Aruna Ranganathan, Stanford University, “A Class of Their Own: Cultural Capital and the Consent to Appropriation of Occupational Jurisdiction” |
Fall 2020
| Oct 8: | Amin Ghaziani, The University of British Columbia, “Why Gayborhoods Matter: The Street Empirics of Urban Sexualities” |
| Oct 15: | Anna Skarpelis, Harvard University, “When Whiteness Fails: Mixed-Race Germans and the Multiple Ontologies of Race in Nazi Germany (1933-1945)” |
| Oct 29: | Zophia Edwards, Providence College, “Moving the State: Workers, Oil, and Development in Trinidad and Tobago” |
| Nov 5: | Alexandre White, The Johns Hopkins University, “Pricing Pandemics: Necrofinance and the World Bank” |
| Nov 11: | Xiaohong Xu, University of Michigan, “The Great Separation: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Political Origins of Contemporary China in Global Capitalism” |
Spring 2020
| Apr 9: | Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, UC San Diego, “Disciplined: How Research Evaluations Transformed the Social Sciences in Britain, 1970-2018” |
| May 7: | Rene Almeling, Yale University, “Biological Stories and Gendered Beliefs” |
| May 28: | Eduardo Duran, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Culture of the Senses: Between Enlightenment and Madness.” |
Winter 2020
| Jan 1: | Maryam Alemzadeh, Brandeis University, “Routines of a Revolution: Institutions and Everyday Practice in 1979 Iran” |
| Jan 23: | Nihal Kayali, University of California, Los Angeles, “Organizational Precarity: Temporary Protection and Syrian Refugee-Run Healthcare in Turkey” |
| Feb 6: | Isaac Reed, University of Virginia, “Kafka’s Sociology: On the Relationship of Authority to Power in the Modern World” |
| Feb 13: | Michael Albertus, University of Chicago, “Trajectories and Consequences of Authoritarian Elite Persistence Under Latin American Democracy” |
| Mar 5: | Erin McDonnell, Notre Dame University, “The Iron Cradle: A Cross-National Analysis of How Weberian Bureaucracy Affects Child Mortality” |
Fall 2019
| Oct 10: | -Melani Cammett, Harvard University, “Outgroup Generosity despite Prejudice: Access to Social Services for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon” |
| Oct 24: | Juan Delgado, Fellow, University of California San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, “Legitimation of Centrality: Categorization Practices in the Emergence of Ethnoracial Political Fields” |
| Nov 9: | Christopher Muller and Dan Schrage, UC Berkeley and University of Southern California, “The Political Economy of Incarceration in the U.S. South, 1910-1925: Evidence from a Shock to Tenancy and Sharecropping” |
| Dec 5: | Ryan Calder, Johns Hopkins University, “A Comparative Sociology of Islamic Finance” |
Spring 2019
| Apr 11: | Steven Hitlin, The University of Iowa, “Nuance: FMK?” with Aliza Luft |
| Apr 25: | Karen Barkey, University of California Berkeley, “Negotiating Presence: Sharing Sacred Sites in Contemporary Istanbul” |
| May 9: | Maria Abascal, Columbia University, “Diversity or Outgroup Share? Explaining 311 Calls in NYC Neighborhoods” |
Winter 2019
| Jan 1: | Charles Seguin, Pennsylvania State Sociology, “Boundary Spillover: Group Boundaries and the Rise of Anti-Lynching Politics in the US” with Sabrina Nardin |
| Feb 28: | Ellis Monk, Harvard University, “Linked Fate, Racial Identity, and Mental Health among African Americans” |
| Mar 8: | Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University, “The Feeling of Belonging: Syrian Identity between Home and Exile” |
Fall 2018
| Oct 18: | Bart Bonikowski, Harvard Sociology, “Populism as Dog-Whistle Politics: Anti-Elite Discourse and Sentiments toward Minorities” with Yueran Zhang |
| Nov 29: | katrina quisumbing-king, University of Southern California, “Institutionalized Ambiguity in Legal Status: Managing the Tensions of U.S. Imperial Rule in the Philippines” |
Spring 2018
| Apr 26: | Leydy Diossa, UCLA, “Emigrants’ Political Rights in Latin America: Democracy, Norms, and Experts (1960-2017).” |
| May 10: | Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California, “How Civic Action Works: Tackling Housing Problems in Los Angeles.” |
| May 24: | Deisy del Real, UCLA, “Empowered, Persuaded, and Coerced: Paraguay’s Role in the Negotiations of the Mercosur Residency Agreements.” |
| Jun 7: | John Levi Martin, University of Chicago, “Size Matters: How to Control for Population Size in Ecological Analysis.” |
Winter 2018
| Jan 18: | Darin Christensen, UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy, “Healthcare Delivery during Crises: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak.” |
| Feb 1: | Sherry B. Ortner, UCLA Anthropology, “Fraud, and the Tangled Relationship between Kinship and Capitalism: The Case of Bernie Madoff.” |
| Feb 8: | Frederick Wherry, Princeton Sociology, “To Lend or Not to Lend to Friends and Kin: Awkwardness, Obfuscation, and Negative Reciprocity.” |
| Mar 1: | Yang Su, UC Irvine, “Deadly Decision of Beijing: Succession Politics and Protest Repression in 1989.” |
Fall 2017
| Oct 5: | Aomar Boum, UCLA, “A Righteous Sultan?’: The Memory of Mohammed V as Protector of Moroccan Jews in Holocaust Geographies” |
| Oct 19: | Nico Voightländer, UCLA, “Highway to Hitler: Examining the Relationship between Infrastructure Spending and Support for Autocracy” |
Spring 2017
| Apr 5: | Ryan Centner, LSE, “Urban Afterlives: Buenos Aires and the Wake of GLobal Adjustment” |
| Apr 13: | Monica Prasad, Northwestern, “The European Welfare State as Neoliberal Project” |
| May 11: | Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law School, “Private Power, Public Values: Regulating Social Infrastructure in a Changing Economy” |
| May 25: | Matthew Mahutga, UC Riverside, “Income Polarization in Rich Democracies: Household Composition, Labor Markets, and Socio-Economic Change” |
| Jun 1: | Herbert S. Klein, Columbia, “History and the Social Sciences” |
Winter 2017
| Jan 19: | Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley African American Studies, “Beyond Colorblindness: Race, Public Discourse and the Cultural Outcomes of Social Movements in Colombia and Brazil.” |
| Feb 2: | Mark Sawyer, UCLA Political Science, “Racial Republicanism: Republicanism and Black Political Thought.” |
| Feb 16: | Daniel Navon, UCSD, “Mobilizing Mutations: New Kinds of People at the Intersection of Genetics and Patient Advocacy.” |
| Mar 2: | Chris Smith, UC Davis, “Gender, the Criminal Elite, and the Structure of Chicago Organized Crime Networks.” |
| Mar 16: | Chris Rea, UCLA, “The Nature of Regulation: Explaining Patterns of Regulatory Marketization and the Case of Ecological Offsetting in the United States and Germany.” |
Fall 2016
| Sep 29: | Philippe Bourgois, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, “The Symbolic Violence of Primitive Accumulation in US Inner City Narcotic Markets and the War on Drugs.” |
| Oct 13: | Phil Gorski, Yale University, “After Positivism: Critical Realism and Historical Sociology.” |
| Oct 27: | Josh Pacewicz, Brown University, “Partnering with the Strong but Blind State: How Civic Associations Co-create Policy when Implementing the Affordable Care Act.” |
| Nov 10: | Andrea Yewon Lee, Sociology Department, UCLA, “Reinventing Movement Protagonists: South Korea’s Anti Gentrification Movement.” |
Spring 2016
| Apr 7: | Anthony Pagden, UCLA Political Science, “Reinventing the Idea of Europe: 1815-1919.” |
| May 19: | Greta Krippner, University of Michigan, “Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit in Late-Twentieth Century America |
Winter 2016
| Jan 7: | Lisa Blaydes, Stanford Political Science, “Mirrors for Princes and Sultans: Advice on the Art of Gover,nance in the Medieval Christian and Islamic Worlds .” |
| Jan 28: | Zach Griffen, UCLA “Seeing Like a Firm: The ‘Education Production Function’ and the Politics of Expertise.” |
| Feb 11: | Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Nationalism, “Philosemitism,” and Symbolic Boundary-Making in Contemporary Poland.” |
| Feb 18: | Javier Auyero, University of Texas, Austin, “The Experience and Perception of Fracking: Relations, Routines, and Collective Action Outcomes.” |
Fall 2015
| Sep 24: | Neil Gong, UCLA, “‘That Proves You Mad, Because You Know It Not’: Impaired Insight for Psychosis and the Liberal Dilemma of Madness.” |
| Oct 8: | Andrew Le, UCLA,”The Limits to Decoupling Ethnicity from Religion: A Case Study of a Japanese Buddhist Temple.” |
| Feb 11: | Ananya Roy, UCLA Public Affairs, “Dis/possessive Collectivism: Property and Personhood at City’s End.” |
| Feb 18: | Marc Schneiberg, Reed College, “Losing their way? Credit Unions’ Embrace of Market-based Investment Practices” |
Spring 2015
| Apr 2: | Ted Porter, UCLA, “Recording Heredity on Forms of Insanity “ |
| Apr 16: | Lauren Duquette-Rury, UCLA, “Voice and Exit: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico” |
| Apr 30: | Emily Ryo, USC, “Legitimacy in Immigration Detention” |
| May 14: | Patrick Heller, Brown, “Development in the City: Growth and Inclusion in India, Brazil and South Africa” |
| May 28: | Lieba Faier, UCLA, “The ‘Need to Know’: Principled Secrecy and the Work of Freedom in Recent Efforts to Fight Human Trafficking to Japan” |
Winter 2015
| Jan 8: | Jacob Thomas, UCLA , “The Institutional Foundation of Diverse Immigration to Canada and Australia” |
| Jan 22-23: | 237 Alumni Reunion Conference |
| Feb 5: | Jacob Foster, UCLA, “Tradition and Innovation in Scientist’s Research Strategies.” |
| Feb 19: | Juan Delgado, UCLA, : “The Non-Ethnic Origins of an Ethnic Category: The Emergence of ³Black Communities” |
| Mar 5: | Michael Goldman, Minnesota, “Financial Magic and the Urban Hustle: Creating Upheaval in the US, Spain, and India.” |
Fall 2014
| Oct 9: | Dylan Riley, UC Berkeley , “The Social Foundations of Positivism: The Case of Late Nineteenth Century Italy.” (co-authored work with Patricia Ahmed of South Dakota State University, and Rebecca Emigh of UCLA). |
| Oct 23: | Ann Hironaka, UC Irvine, “Learning from History: The Difficulties of Military Planning.” |
| Nov 6: | Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan, “Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009.” (selection from book proofs) |
| Nov 20: | Matías Fernández, UCLA, “Authoritarianism by Other Means? The Politics of Clientelism and Expertise in Two Cities.” |
| Dec 4: | Andrew Herman, UCLA, “Challenges to Nazi symbolic power in the American Midwest, 1932-1935.” |
Spring 2014
| Apr 3: | John Skrentny, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego, “The Political Sociology of Regional Variations: Family Migration in Europe, North America, and East Asia.” |
| Apr 7: | Fred Block, Research Professor, UC Davis, “Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion”-Book Discussion with the The Contentious Politics and Organizations Working Group |
| Apr 17: | Lori Yue, USC Marshall School of Business, “Elite-Driven Community Collective Action and the Issues of Currency Substitutes During the Panic of 1907.” |
| May 1: | Michael Hechter, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University, “The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797.” |
| May 15: | Mara Loveman, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley, “From Melting Pots to Mosaics: Domestic Activism, International Organizations, and the Official Unmixing of Latin American Populations.” |
| May 29: | Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Department of Sociology and Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University, “Intersectionality and the Sociology of HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future Reearch Directions.” |
Winter 2014
| Jan 9: | Thomas Soehl, Language, Religion and the Schooling Experiences of the Children of Immigrants in France |
| Jan 23: | Tom Hannan (canceled, no paper) |
| Feb 6: | Johanna Bockman, Socialist Globalization: Decolonization, Non-Aligned Economic Institutions, and the Debt Crisis |
| Feb 20: | Michael Storper, The Sources of Urban Development: Wages, Housing and Amenity Gaps across American Cities |
| Mar 6: | John R. Hall, Patrimonialism Making Modernity: The U.S. Public Domain from Colonial Times to the Late Nineteenth Century |
Spring 2013
| Apr 4: | Ed Walker and Chris Rea, UCLA, “Opting Out: How Vaccine Policy, Natural Parenting, and Access to Care Shape Nonmedical Exemptions to School Immunization Mandates” |
| Apr 18: | Jaeeun Kim, Stanford, “Seeking Asylum, Finding God: Unauthorized Migration, the Ethnic Church, and Conversion for Immigration Purposes” |
| May 2: | Chris Rea, UCLA, “Governing with Markets: Environmental Protection, Fields of Contention and the Rise of Public Market-Oriented Governance” |
| May 16: | Mark Anner, Penn State, TBA |
| May 20: | Gustav Brown, UCLA, TBA |
Winter 2013
| Jan 10: | Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA) and Yong Zhang (Sun Yat Sen University), Domination by depoliticization: unraveling the micro-foundations of bargained authoritarianism in China |
| Jan 24: | Shizheng Feng (Renmin University of China) and Yang Su (UC Irvine), “The Making of the Maoist Model in the Post-Mao Era:The Myth of Nanjie Village” |
| Feb 7: | Matt Desmond (Harvard University) “Mechanisms of Neighborhood Selection: Why and How Poor Families Move.” |
| Feb 21: | Philippe Duhart, UCLA, “ Terrorism and Social Movement Formation in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country.” |
| Mar 7: | Dan Slater (University of Chicago), “The strength to concede: ruling parties and democratization in developmental Asia.” |
Fall 2012
| Oct 3: | Aaron Panofsky, UCLA , Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics |
| Oct 17: | Caitlin Patler, UCLA , Undocumented Youth Organizations, Anti-Deportation Campaigns, and the Boundaries of Membership |
| Oct 31: | Stefan Bargheer, UCLA , Tocqueville and the Invention of American Exceptionalism, 1941-1963 |
| Nov 14: | Catherine (Katie) Bolzendahl, UC-Irvine (with Rottem Sagi) ‘Good’ Citizens Under God? Individual and Institutional Religious Influences on Citizenship Norms and Participation |
| Dec 5: | Alwyn Lim, USC , Constructing Global Fields: Actorhood and Otherhood in the Moral Regulation of the Global Economy |
Spring 2012
| Apr 5: | David Trouille, Sociology, UCLA. “ Fencing a field: Imagined others in the rise and fall of a neighborhood park conflict” |
| Apr 19: | Stephen Vaisey, Sociology, Duke, “Cultural Depth and Social Change” |
| May 3: | Winston Chou, Sociology, UCLA. “Two Arcs of Kurdish Nationalism The Meaning of “Terror” in Kurdistan, 1984-1999” |
| May 17: | Akhil Gupta, Anthropology, UCLA, “”Theorizing Indian Political Economy After Market Reforms” |
| May 31: | Chris Tilly, Urban Planning and Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA. “Union strategic research: Why, how, and so what?” |
Winter 2012
| Jan 12: | Jason Beckfield, Sociology, Harvard. “Regional Integration and the Convergence of European Welfare States” |
| Jan 26: | Susanna Hecht, Urban Planning, UCLA. “The Natures of Progress: Land use dynamics and forest trends in Latin America and Caribbean” |
| Feb 9: | David Frank, Sociology, UC Irvine. “Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005” |
| Feb 23: | Tamara Kay, Sociology, Harvard. “Diffusion as Negotiation: The Relational Dynamics of How Innovations are Localized and Why They Stick” |
| Mar 8: | Adrian Favell, Sciences Po. “Rise and Decline: Japan as the Model of the “Post-Bubble” Society” |
Fall 2011
| Sep 29: | Marie Berry, Sociology, UCLA. “From Violence to Mobilization: The Rise of Rwanda’s Women” |
| Oct 13: | Hannah Landecker, Sociology, UCLA. “Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism” |
| Oct 27: | Michael Ross, Political Science, UCLA. “The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations” |
| Nov 10: | Francesca Polletta, Sociology, UC Irvine. “Is the Public Sphere Feminized? Gender in Public Deliberation” |
| Dec 1: | Amy Zhou, Sociology, UCLA. “Race Logic and a Health Reality: Accountability and the “Racialization” and “Deracializaiton” of Health Services” |
Spring 2011
| Mar 31: | Joshua Bloom , “Retrodicting Insurgent Mobilization: Contested Legitimacy in the Civil Rights Movement” |
| Apr 14: | Rick Baldoz and César Ayala “The Bordering of America: Colonialism and Citizenship in the Philippines and Puerto Rico” |
| Apr 28: | Perry Anderson, “Speculations on Multi-Culturalism“ |
| May 12: | Matthias Koenig, “Human rights, judicial politics and the secularization of nation-states – Contentions over religion at the European Court of Human Rights” |
| May 26: | R. Bin Wong, “Before and Beyond Divergence: the Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe.” |
Winter 2011
| Jan 13: | Dan Lainer-Vos (USC) “ Manufacturing national bonds: gift giving, market exchange and the construction of transatlantic national markets” |
| Jan 27: | Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern) “Calculability and Trust: Credit Rating in Nineteenth-Century America” |
| Feb 10: | Noah Grand (UCLA) TBA” |
| Feb 24: | Peter Evans (UC Berkeley) “Rethinking Neo-Polanyian Optimism: Transnational Politics After the Decline of Neoliberalism” |
| Mar 10: | Antonio Guzman (UCLA) “ Imposing capitalism: Cuba and Taiwan in the early 1900s” |
Fall 2010
| Sep 30: | Abigail Saguy and Anna Ward, “Coming Out as Fat: Rethinking Stigma” |
| Oct 14: | Matt Baltz, “Protecting citizens in times of economic distress: State expansion, citizenship, and repatriation pressures in the United States and France during the 1930s” |
| Oct 28: | Roger Waldinger, “Politics beyond borders: Sending states and “their” emigrants” |
| Nov 11: | Zeynep Ozgen, “Marriage and Ethno-Religious Boundaries in a Multiethnic Society” |
| Dec 2: | Jeff Goodwin, “When Terrorism Makes Sense” |
Spring 2010
| Apr 1: | Elena Shih, UCLA, Sociology Department, “Globalizing Justice: The Transnational Moral Economy of Women’s Work in the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement” |
| Apr 15: | Fred Block, UC Davis, Sociology Department, “Crisis and Renewal: The Outlines of a 21st Century New Deal” |
| Apr 28: | Andrew Walder, Stanford University, Sociology Department, “The Property Revolution: Conflict and Change in Transitional Economies.” |
| May 13: | Philip McMichael, Cornell University, Department of Development Sociology, “A Food Regime Perspective on Millennium Developments” |
| May 27: | Julia Tomassetti, UCLA, Sociology Department, “Who is a Worker? Ideology and Partisanship on the National Labor Relations Board at the Turn of the 21st Century” |
Winter 2010
| Jan 7: | Nina Bandelj (UC Irvine): TBA |
| Jan 21: | Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley): “Cents and sensibility: economic valuation and the nature of ‘nature’ in France and America” |
| Feb 4: | Kyle Armone (UCLA): “In Solidarity? Re-examining the Determinants of Failure: The 1996 Port Truckers’ Campaign” |
| Feb 18: | Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA): “The Labor Question of Chinese Capitalism in Africa” |
| Mar 4: | Michael Mann (UCLA): “The rise and fall of neo-liberalism” |
Fall 2009
| Oct 1: | Gail Kligman (UCLA): “Peasants Into Party Members: The Restratification and Bureaucratization of Rural Life” |
| Oct 13: | (Tuesday): Violaine Roussel (University of Paris VIII): “Speaking in the Name of the Public: A Sociology of American Celebrities’ Claim to Represent in the Context of the War in Iraq” |
| Oct 29: | Cihan Tugal (UC Berkeley): “Paths of Islamization: Political Society in Turkey, Egypt and Iran” |
| Nov 19: | Iddo Tavory (UCLA): “Layers of Distinction: The Organization of Differences in the Orthodox Neighborhood” |
| Dec 13: | Margaret Somers (Michigan): “Free-Market Utopianism: From Market fundamentalism to Karl Polanyi’s Reality of Society” |
Spring 2009
| Apr 23: | Philip Gorski (Yale) A Neo-Weberian Theory of Civil Religion |
| May 7: | Susan Watkins (UPenn) and Ann Swidler (UCB) “Teach a Man to Fish”: The Sustainability Doctrine and its Social Consequences |
| May 21: | Special session: perspectives on the crisis |
| Jun 4: | Stela Krasteva (UCLA) lStructure, Opportunity, Agency, and Contingency as Conditions for Politicizing Ethnicity: Ataka and “The Roma” in Bulgaria |
Winter 2009
| Jan 15: | Miguel Centeno (Princeton) Professor of Sociology, Princeton University Liberalism Without State or Nation |
| Jan 29: | Monica Prasad (Northwestern) “The Non-History of National Sales Tax: An ‘Old Institutionalist’ Theory of Path Dependence.” |
| Feb 12: | Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein (UCLA) The global spread of the nation-state. A quantitative exploration, 1789-2001 |
| Feb 26: | Jack Katz “Time for New Urban Ethnographies” |
| Mar 12: | Angela Jamison , UCLA “Ethical exuberance and the bromides of carbon offsets” |
Fall 2008
| Oct 9: | Wes Hiers (UCLA), “The Colonial Roots of Racialized Polities” |
| Oct 23: | John Padgett (U Chicago political science), “Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage and Family in Renaissance Florence, 1282-1500.” |
| Nov 6: | Michael Mann (UCLA), “Trajectories through the 20th Century of the Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare States.” |
| Nov 20: | Rogers Brubaker and Jaeeun Kim (UCLA), “Transborder Nationhood and the Politics of Belonging in Germany and Korea.” |
| Dec 4: | Peter Baldwin (UCLA history), “The Narcissism of Minor Differences How America Resembles Europe.” |
Spring 2008
| Apr 10: | Rob Jansen, UCLA, “Populist Mobilization: The Emergence of a New Mode of Political Practice in Early 20th Century Peru” |
| Apr 24: | Loic Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley, “Comparing Apples and Oranges: Revisiting Urban Marginality in Europe and America” |
| May 8: | Gustav Brown, UCLA, “Framing Matters: Activists, Institutions and Interpretations of Violence in West Kalimantan & Ambon” |
| May 22: | Julia Adams, Yale University, “Poststructuralist Foundations of Social Theory, or the Unknown James Coleman” |
| Jun 5: | Deborah Yashar, Princeton University, “Violence, Citizenship, and Public Security in Post-Authoritarian Latin America” |
Winter 2008
| Jan 17: | Roger Waldinger, UCLA, “Rethinking Transnationalism” |
| Jan 31: | James Mahoney, “The Logic of Historical Explanation” |
| Feb 14: | Sherry Ortner, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, “Failure to protect: Pedophiles and parents in recent independent cinema” |
| Feb 28: | Daniel N. Posner, Department of Political Science, UCLA, “Political Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa” |
Fall 2007
| Oct 11: | John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Taking Power Revolutions Past and Future” |
| Oct 25: | Fabio Rojas, University of Indiana. “Spillover and Mobilization in the American Antiwar Movement” |
| Nov 8: | Matt Vidal, UCLA, “The Labor Process Revisited Institutional Polymorphism and Organizational Political Economy in the Manufacturing Field.” |
| Nov 15: | Hazem Kandil, UCLA Dept of Sociology “The Islamist Socialization of the Egyptian Middle Class Intelligentsia.” |
| Nov 29: | Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby, UCLA, “Knowledge Transmission and Self-Organizing Social Expectations and Action” |
Spring 2007
| Apr 4: | Isaac Martin, Sociology, UC San Diego: “A Rich People’s Movement? The Campaign to Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment” |
| Apr 19: | Kiser, Edgar and Welser, Howard T. University of Washington and Cornell University: “The Relationship Between Theory and History in Evolutionary Biology: A Model for Historical Sociology” |
| May 3: | Bill Roy and Dowd, Timothy O., Sociology, UCLA: “What is Sociological about Music?” |
| May 17: | Cheris Shun-Ching Chan, Sociology, Pittsburgh and Global Fellows Program, International Institute, UCLA: “How Culture Matters in Making a Market: The Case of Life Insurance in China.” |
| May 31: | Josh Bloom: Sociology, UCLA: “Black anti-colonialism, Truman’s adoption of civil rights advocacy, and the dual character of political opportunity.” |
Winter 2007
| Jan 11: | Wesley Hiers, Sociology, UCLA (graduate student): “Democracy and Racial Closure: The 19th Century United States in Comparative Perspective” |
| Jan 25: | Scott Washington, Sociology, UCLA: “The Blood of Homer Plessy: A Second Look at the Case of Plessy v. Ferguson” |
| Feb 8: | Dylan Riley, Sociology, UC Berkeley (former UCLA student): Chapter One of The Civic Foundations of Fascism |
| Feb 22: | Nitsan Chorev, Sociology, Brown University (former UCLA Global Fellow): “Trading in the State: US Trade Policy, Institutions, and the Politics of Globalization.” |
| Mar 8: | David Meyer, Sociology, UC Irvine: “War and Peace Movements in American Political Development” |
Fall 2006
| Oct 5: | A special session that deviates from the normal format. There is no paper to read, but instead an “Author-Meets-Critics session on Ruth Milkman’s new book, “LA Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement” Critics are Daniel Mitchell, Management and Public Affairs, UCLA; Katherine Stone, Law, UCLA; and Maurice Zeitlin, Sociology, UCLA. |
| Oct 19: | Andreas Wimmer, Sociology, UCLA and Brian Min: “From Empire to Nation-State. Explaining wars in the modern world, 1816-2001.” |
| Nov 2: | Paul Lichterman, Sociology, University of Southern California. “Social capital or group style? Rescuing Tocqueville’s insights on civic engagement” |
| Nov 16: | Jaeeun Kim, Sociology, UCLA. ” Incorporating Koreans Abroad”: The Politics of Membership in South Korea |
| Nov 30: | Mark Sawyer, Political Science, UCLA. “Nationhood, Blacks and Race in the Americas: A Race Cycles Approach” |
Spring 2006
| Jan 12: | Robert Brenner, History, UCLA: “Property and Progress: Where Adam Smith Went Wrong” |
| Jan 19: | Lane Kenworthy, Sociology, Arizona: “Taxes, Inequality, and Employment.” |
| Feb 9: | Edwin Amenta, Sociology, UC Irvine: “Complete Coverage: A New Approach to Social Movements.” |
| Feb 23: | Kurtulus Gemici, Sociology, UCLA: “Economic Life, Institutions and Social Action: Reflections on Polanyi’s Approach to Studying Economic Life” |
| Mar 9: | Mick Mann, Sociology, UCLA: “American Empires: The Past and the Present” |
Winter 2006
| Apr 6: | Charles Camic, “”On Edge: Sociology during the Great Depression and the New Deal” |
| Apr 20: | Kristin Surak, “Convergence in Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship Laws Convergence in Foreigners’ Rights and Citizenship Laws” |
| May 4: | Dan Posner, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa |
| Jun 1: | Steven Pfaff. University of Washington. “Loyalty and the Theory of Collective Action” |
| Mar 9: | Mick Mann, Sociology, UCLA: “American Empires: The Past and the Present” |
Spring 2005
| Apr 7: | David Cook. UCLA “Proactive Recruitment and Retentionist Patterns of Migration and Nationality Policy in Argentina, Italy, and Spain (1850-1919)” |
| Apr 21: | George Steinmetz. University of Michigan. “From “Native Policy” to Exterminationism: German Southwest Africa, 1904, in Comparative Perspective” |
| May 5: | Kieran Healy. University of Arizona. “The Political Economy of Presumed Consent” |
| May 19: | Sanjay Subrahmanyam. UCLA, “Beyond Incommensurability: Understanding Inter-Imperial Dynamics” |
| Jun 2: | Andreas Wimmer. UCLA. “Elementary Forms of Ethnic Boundary Making: A Processual and Interactionist Approach” |
Winter 2005
| Jan 13: | Gershon Shafir. University of California, San Diego. “Late Decolonization: Comparing South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine.” |
| Jan 27: | Angela Jamison. UCLA. “Embedded on the left: Aggressive media strategies and their organizational impact on the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride.” |
| Feb 10: | Nina Glick Schiller. “Transborder Citizenship.” |
| Feb 10: | Roger Waldinger. UCLA “The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners into Americans in 21st Century L.A.” |
| Feb 17: | James Fearon and David Laitin Stanford Univeristy, “Civil War Narratives.” |
| Feb 24: | Justin Lee. UCLA. “Investigation the Hybridity of ‘Wellness’ Practices.” |
Fall 2004
| Oct 17: | Charles Ragin and John Sonnet, University of Arizona. “Between Complexity and Parsimony: Limited Diversity, Counterfactual cases, and Comparative Analysis.” |
| Oct 21: | David Fitzgeral,. UCLA “Ethnographies of Migration.” |
| Nov 4: | Vivek Chibber. UCLA. “Reviving the Developmental State? The Myth of the National Bourgeoisie.” |
| Nov 18: | Donald J. Treiman. UCLA “The Growth and Determinants of Literacy in China.” |
| Dec 12: | Sanford Jacoby. UCLA. “Economic Ideas and the Labor Market: Origins of the Anglo-American Model and Prospects for Global Diffusion.” |
Winter 2004
| Jan 15: | Andrew Abbott, Sociology, University of Chicago, “The historicality of individuals” |
| Jan 22: | Rachel Cohen, Sociology, UCLA, “When it Pays to be Friendly: Employment Relations and Worker-Client Interactions in Hairdressing” |
| Jan 29: | Frank Dobbin, Sociology, Harvard, “How Institutions Create Ideas: Railroad Finance and the Construction of Public and Private in France and the United States.” |
| Feb 5: | Ödül Bozkurt, Sociology, UCLA, “The Global Corpo-nation?: High-Skilled Workers in Mobile Telecommunications Multinationals.” |
| Feb 12: | Phil Gorski, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, “Protestantism and Economic Hegemony: Beyond the Weber Thesis.” |
| Feb 19: | Andrea Grant-Friedman, Sociology, UCLA, “: Standing in the Mirror of World Capitalism: Economic Globalization, the Soviet Union, and the COMECON.” |
| Feb 26: | Neil Fligstein, Sociology, Berkeley, “The Transformation of the American Economy, 1984-2001” |
| Mar 4: | Roger Waldinger, Sociology, UCLA, “Immigrant “Transnationalism” and the Presence of the Past” |
Fall 2003
| Oct 9: | Introductory panel discussion on trends and strategies in comparative research. Rogers Brubaker, “Beyond comparativism” |
| Oct 16: | Kathleen Thelen, Political Science, Northwestern, “Institutions and Social Change: The Evolution of Vocational Training Institutions in Germany” |
| Oct 23: | Patrick Le Galès, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. “The governance of local economies in Europe” |
| Oct 30: | Kristin Surak, Sociology, UCLA. “Tea: Nationhood and Ethnicity in Japan and LA” |
| Nov 6: | Kurtulus Gemici, Sociology, UCLA. “Spontaneity in Social Protest: Apr. 2001 Shopkeeper Protests in Turkey” |
| Oct 30: | Andrew Sabl, Public Policy, UCLA. “Useful Fictions: Why Racial Categories Make No Sense and Why the Census Bureau is Right not to Care.” |
| Nov 6: | Kanchan Chandra, Political Science, MIT, “A Combinatorial Model of Ethnic Identity Change” |