Upcoming Presentations
For more information or to join the seminar’s listserv, please email soc237@soc.ucla.edu. Seminars take place in Haines Hall 279 at 5pm.
Fall 2025
October 2, 2025
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut
“City Formations Under New Racial Formations: Ethnic Civil Society Networks in the Creation of Portland and Seattle, 1888-1909”
October 9, 2025
Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology, University of Michigan
“When Crime Pays the Victim: How Victim Policy Shaped the Carceral State”
October 16, 2025
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, UCLA
“Retreat Backlash: Participation, Polarization, and Mistrust During Sea Level Rise Planning on the California Coast”
October 30, 2025
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
“Pyramid Schemes: Culling the Ranks in Hierarchical Organizations” (with Hsu Huang)
November 6, 2025
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Workers of the Socialist World: The Transnational Remaking of Chinese Workers’ Class Consciousness, circa 1980”
November 13, 2025
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU
“Assessing Daily Life: Standardization and Scripted Discretion in Home Care Evaluations” (with Adrianna Munson)
December 4, 2025
Associate Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
“Religion and the Restructuring of American Politics”
Winter 2026
February 19, 2026
Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Georgia
March 12, 2026
Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Spring 2026
