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 11:30am lunch is provided) in 493 College Street, Room 106.
| 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) |
| Date | Presenter and Topic |
|---|---|
| September 2 | Introduction Meeting. All are welcome! |
| September 9 | “No Easy Way Out: How Ozempic Reshaped American Health” Alka Menon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University |
| September 16 | Practice Job Talk or Professionalization Session |
| September 23 | “Pathways to Heterosexual Refusal: Evolving Gender Relations and Intimacy in South Korea” Meera Choi, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Yale |
| September 30 | “ ‘They/Them/We’: Agency in Social Science History at the Quarter Century” Julia Adams, Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology, Yale University |
| October 7 | Displacement without Movement: Bureaucratic Violence and Refugee Governance in South Korea Angela McClean, Lecturer, Sociology and East Asian Studies, Yale University |
| October 21 | Notes Towards a Technosocioeconomics: Money-work as the co-construction of science, technology, community, and cost Janet Vertesi, Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University |
| October 28 | “The Making of Ethical AI: Developing Machine Learning Solutions for Healthcare” Shira Zilberstein, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University |
| November 4 | “Navigating Social Change, Aging and Health in Rural Post-Apartheid South Africa” Sanyu Mojola, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies, Princeton University |
| November 11 | “Fiscal Bureaucrats & Institutional Inequality” Sandra Okonofua, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Yale University |
| November 18 | “Periodizing Players’ Lives: Gender, Science, and Menstrual Cycle Tracking in Women’s Sport” Cassidy Gabriel, PhD Student, Sociology and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University |
| December 2 | “The Innovation Paradigm: How Tech is Transforming the Politics of Poverty and Inequality” Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program |
