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.