Public Service Organizations and Institutional Pluralism: How Structural Filtering Generates Inequality in Client Service and Complicates Mission Fulfillment
Christina Ciocca Eller, Harvard University
Public service organizations (PSOs) in the United States are mission-driven entities that reflect American commitments to democratic...
Culture, History, and Politics (CHiP) Workshop
Winter 2025 Semester Line-Up:...
Gender and Sexuality Workshop
The format of this workshop is that presenters circulate a manuscript in advance, and participants read the manuscript and come ready to...
How Quantification Shapes What We See in Organizations and Social Movements: Three Examples of Visibility and Invisibility
Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University
In this talk I examine how quantification constructs relations of visibility: How what we attend to and ignore is mediated by numbers. The...
Gender and Sexuality Workshop
The format of this workshop is that presenters circulate a manuscript in advance, and participants read the manuscript and come ready to...
Paranoid Patriotism Redux: The Radical Right and the Nation
The 2025 The Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series, delivered by Robin D.G. Kelley
Join us for the 2025 Annual Betty Ch'Maj Lecture: “Paranoid Patriotism Redux: The Radical Right and the Nation,” delivered by...
The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders
Maryam Kouchaki, Northwestern University
The prevailing view among scholars has been that the preference for strong leaders is an idiosyncratic feature of right-wing individuals....
Graduate School & Beyond
Funding Beyond Year 5
Panelists: Jill Hoppenjans, Davis Daumler, and Mira Vale...
Lecture. Religious diversity, pluralism and laïcité in contemporary France
Céline Béraud, WCEE Affiliated Scholar (Department of Sociology, U-M)
Céline Béraud is a sociologist and professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), where she holds the...
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse
Rachel Wetts, Brown University
In this research, I investigate why some framings of climate change are publicized in American mainstream media while others are not,...
Graduate School & Beyond
Dissertation Prospectus
Panelists: Greta Krippner, Genevieve Zubrzycki, Kayonne Christy, and Jane Furey...
Windows of Opportunity: How Shareholder Activists Capitalize on Periods of Disruptive Organizational Change
Mark DesJardine, Dartmouth College
Inspired by research on the temporal nature of opportunities, we extend the idea that financially motivated shareholder activists target...
2025 Michigan Sociology Career Conference
A day-long conference featuring Sociology PhD alumni in a variety of careers. The event will feature three different panels and breakout...
Professors Zhan Chen, Anna Kirkland, and Anne McNeil, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
This event will take place both in person and virtually....
