Conference Program

9:30 – 11:00 am

Inequality in How People Are Seen

Shani Evans, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University

Michele Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Sociology, Harvard University

Van Tran, Associate Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Karolyn Tyson, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Georgetown University

Julia Wrigley, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Presider: Chenoa Flippen, Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for the Study of Ethnicity Race and Immigration (CSERI), University of Pennsylvania

11:00 – 11:15 am

Break

11:15 am – 12:45 pm

Inequalities in the World of Education

Maia Cucchiara, Associate Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University

Sherelle Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California at Irvine

Yi-lin Chiang, Associate Professor of Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Elliot Weininger, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Brockport

Peter Harvey, Postdoctoral Fellow, Inequality in America Initiative, Harvard University
University

Presider: Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

12:45 – 1:45 pm

Lunch

1:45 – 3:15 pm

Families and Institutions

Jessica Calarco, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Karyn Lacy, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Aliya Rao, Assistant Professor Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Blair Sackett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University

Presider: Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

3:15 – 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Wealth, Class Reproduction, and Mobility

Matthew Desmond, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Shamus Khan, Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Princeton University

Judith Levine, Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Policy Lab, Temple University

Doron Shiffer-Sebba, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

Presider: Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

5:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Reception to follow

 

Please contact Julia Hawthorne with questions at: jhaw@sas.upenn.edu.