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Department of Sociology
Distinguished Visitors
The Department consistently brings distinguished scholars in the social sciences to campus. During their visit guests typically deliver a public lecture, speak in our classes, and lead a work-in-progress seminar with department majors. Previous visitors to the department include:
2023
Date | Speaker | Title |
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November 2, 2023 | Rachel Sherman Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College |
"What is a Good Rich Person? Cultures of Accumulation and Redistribution in the US" |
October 26, 2023 | Alisa Lewin Associate Professor University of Haifa |
"Poverty, affluence and homeownership among working-age immigrants in Israel” |
2022
Date | Speaker | Title |
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October 26, 2022 | Cedric de Leon Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies University of Massachusetts Amherst |
“Black Souls or Black Labor: A Du Boisian Vision for the U.S. Labor Movement” |
April 12, 2022 | Joseph Ewoodzie Vann Associate Professor of Racial Justice and Sociology Davidson College |
"Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" |
Distinguished Visitors before 2020:
- Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- Elijah Anderson, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- Peter Bearman, Jonathan Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, Columbia University
- Robert Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Lawrence Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
- Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
- Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Nancy Chodorow, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Tia DeNora, Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, Sociology/Philosophy, Exeter University
- Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
- Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
- Herb Gintis, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
- Jurgen Habermas, Professor of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt (for a semseter).
- James Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago (Nobel Laureate)
- Hans Joas, Director, Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany, and Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
- Mark Kelman, James C. Gaither Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
- Shamus Khan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
- Donald Levine, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
- Samuel R. Lucas, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Niklas Luhmann, deceased, formerly Professor of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
- George Markus, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney (for a semester).
- Maria Markus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of New South Wales (for a semester).
- John Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
- John Ogbu, deceased, formerly, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
- Charles Payne, Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago
- Richard Posner, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
- Wolfgang Schluchter, Professor of Sociology, University of Heidelberg
- Vicki Schultz, Ford Foundation Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- George Steinmetz, Professor of Sociology and German Studies, University of Michigan
- Susan Sturm, Professor of Law, Columbia
- Richard Swedberg, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
- Iván Szelényi,William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- Harrison White, Giddings Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
- Oliver Williamson, Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
- Erik Wright, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin