The Comparative Research Workshop (CRW) is a weekly seminar in which work-in-progress by visiting scholars, Yale graduate students, and Yale faculty from Sociology and other disciplines is discussed. Papers are distributed a week ahead of time. Students who take the course for a letter grade present a paper during the term in which they are enrolled for credit. (Course listing: SOCY6100)
Meetings are Tuesdays at noon (at 11:45am lunch is provided) in 493 College Street, Room 106.
| Date | Presenter and Topic |
|---|---|
| September 8 | “Working to Love: Expertise and Effort in Young U.S. Elites’ Romantic Relationships” Adora Svitak Sociology, Yale University |
| September 15 | “The Social Life of Money: Fiscal Bureaucrats in Public Sector Organizations” Sandra Okonofua Sociology, Yale University |
| September 22 |
“The Recognition Gap and the Invisible Hand of Privilege” Jiwon Yun Sociology, Yale University |
| September 29 |
“Morality within the State: Three Forms of Moral Incongruence in the U.S. Asylum Bureaucracy” Talia Shiff Assistant Professor, Departments of Sociology and Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Scholar, Princeton University |
| October 6h | “The Hubris of Good Intentions: Conflict Reporting and the Creation of Perverse Incentives” J. Siguru Wahutu Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, Yale University |
| October 13 | “Making and Remaking China’s Modernity: Studying China through Historical Sociology” Yang Zhang Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University |
| October 20 | CVs and Conferences Professionalization Workshop |
| October 27 |
“Not A-Lone” Star: Five Hundred Years of Global Texas History Jonathan Wyrtzen Professor of Sociology and History, Yale University |
| November 3 |
“Down with the Sellouts: Egypt’s Revolutionary Coalitions between Solidarity and Violent Polarization (2011-2014)” Muhammad Amasha Sociology, Yale University |
| November 10 |
“The (Non-)Reproductive Life of the Child-free” Fanmei Xia Sociology, Yale University |
| November 17 |
“Cancellation and Moral Realignment in the Context of Cultural Polarization” Laura Adler Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Management, Yale University Elena Ayala-Hurtado Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University |
| December 1 |
“Private Birth, Public Spectatorship: Reimagining Digital Activism Through Embodied Practices of Natural Birth Vlogging in South Korea” Jenny Jiyoung Bae Sociology, Yale University |
| December 8 |
“The Iconic Eclipse: Inequality of Recognition in Human Sciences” Karlson Preuss Research and Teaching Fellow, Institute of Sociology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg; VAR, Yale |
| Date | Presenter and Topic |
|---|---|
| January 13 | Musa al-Gharbi (Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism, Stony Brook University) |
| January 20 | Cassidy Gabriel (Yale Sociology) Tracking Difference: Enacting Gender and Science through Menstrual Cycle Tracking in Elite Women’s Football |
| January 27 | Alex Manning (Lecturer and Research Scholar, DUS, Yale Sociology) “Boys need to share the ball”: Gendered Goals and Struggles in Youth Soccer |
| February 3 | Jack Jin Gary Lee (Assistant Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research) ‘My Heart Frightened Me’: Crisis, Repair, and the Reinvention of Authority at Morant Bay, 1865 |
| February 10 | Shirin Purkayastha (Yale Sociology) These Walls: Rap Beefs, Critics, and the Structures That Shape Evaluative Vocabularies |
| February 17 | Daphne Fietz (Yale Sociology) Morality and Time in Orientations to Climate Activism |
| February 24 | Matthew Mahler (CRW Affiliate) and Mirco Liefke (Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer with the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin) A Tale of Two Journalisms: The Historical Development of Political News in the United States and Germany |
| February 25 |
**AFFILIATED EVENT** Steve Pincus (Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History and the College, The University of Chicago) |
| March 3 | Rene Almeling (Professor of Sociology, Yale) New Research in the Sociology of Climate Change |
| March 24 | Professional Development Workshop: Entering the Sociology Job Market(s) |
| March 31 | Valentin Lehmbruck (VAR, Yale Sociology) Field Theory and Decolonization: The Case of India |
| April 7 | Golasa Sadat Haji Mirzaei (Yale Sociology) Narrating ‘Necessary Evil’: Debating War, Morality, and Trauma in the Iranian Diaspora |
| April 10 |
**AFFILIATED EVENT** Jonah Stuart Brundage (Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan) |
| April 14 | Yuanhang Zhu (Yale Sociology) Remaking Coordination: Interorganizational Agency Structures and Global Industrial Transition to the EV Era |
| April 21 | Dominik Bartmanski (Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard; Heisenberg Fellow, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin) The Iconic Eclipse: Inequality of Recognition in Human Sciences |
| April 28 |
Phil Gorski (Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology, Yale) |
