Graduate student Jensen Sass, together with coauthor John Dryzek at the Australian National University, has a new article out in the journal Political Theory. In it, Sass and Dryzek use an intersubjective conception of culture to explore local differences in deliberative democracy. CongratulationsRead more...
Anderson to Speak to Honor Society
Thu, 02/27/2014
Professor Elijah Anderson will give a lecture as the keynote speaker of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society’s Speaker Symposia. His talk, titled “The Iconic Ghetto and the Promise of Urban Ethnography”, will explore the image of the ghetto as a powerful source ofRead more...
New Issue of AJCS
Wed, 02/26/2014
A new issue of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology is out now! The journal, housed in our department, aims to provide a space where cultural sociologists can follow the latest developments and debates within the field. The new issue includes contributions from Kurasawa, McQuade, Nylander,Read more...
New Publication by Becker in Ethnic & Racial Studies
Tue, 02/25/2014
Graduate student Elisabeth Becker just published a new article on Albanian Kosovars in Little Italy in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. In it, she develops the concept of “assumed ethnicity”, in which one ethnic group strategically presents itself as another. Congratulations, Elisabeth!
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New Publication by Nelson and Gorski
Mon, 02/24/2014
Recent graduate Samuel Nelson and Professor Philip Gorski have a new article out in the journal International Sociology, titled “Conditions of religious belonging: Confessionalization, de-parochialization, and the Euro-American divergence. In it, they present a new account of different trajectoriesRead more...
Hunter on Voter Suppression in the Washington Post
Tue, 01/21/2014
Professor Marcus Anthony Hunter has published a new op-ed in the Washington Post. In it he reviews voting rights in the U.S. since 1965, considers the way forward, and argues that “voter suppression anywhere is a threat to voters everywhere.” Read the op-ed here. Congratulations, Marcus!
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New Publication by Candas Pinar
Sun, 01/12/2014
Graduate student Candas Pinar has a new article out in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. In it, she argues that unifying notions of Islam often undermine meaningful differences. She analyzes Turkish parliamentary debates to show that the Justice and Development Party privileges a totalizingRead more...
Paul DiMaggio to deliver Hollingshead Lecture
Fri, 01/10/2014
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Paul DiMaggio will deliver this year’s Hollingshead Lecture, titled “Analyzing Environments of Representation: Using Topic Models to Study Cultural Change”. DiMaggio is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at PrincetonRead more...
Gallopin Interviewed on French TV
Fri, 12/27/2013
Graduate Student Jean-Baptiste Gallopin recently appeared on France24 news as a political analyst and Sudanese specialist, speaking on the conflict in South Sudan. Watch his interview in French here, and in a second interview in English here.
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Uneasy Settlements: Reparation Politics and the Meanings of Money in the Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza
Fri, 12/27/2013
Graduate student Shai Dromi just published new research in the journal Sociological Inquiry on the communicative functions of money in the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. In it he argues that, through demands for compensation, settlers resisted shame and devaluation when evicted by the state throughRead more...
