Join us for a fireside chat with Desirée Cormier Smith, the US State Department Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice. The first person to hold the position, Ms. Cormier leads the State Department’s efforts to protect and advance the human rights of people belonging to marginalized racial and ethnic communities…
KTC Student Affiliates have the opportunity to present their work. Sociology doctoral student Megan Kang presents her ongoing work on what it means to exit a violent social network, over lunch, Friday, March 24, 12:15pm.
As the world grapples with how to address climate change, at the heart of the issue is justice. Globally, the nations that are projected to suffer the worst impacts of climate change are those that are least responsible for causing it and that have fewer resources to adapt. The same is true in the United States, where…
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society; Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.
Author of Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, and Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.
Sponsored by: Dept…
Education Research Section – Seminar Series – Spring 2023
Open to faculty, staff, and all students
Wednesdays – Hybrid Seminar – Noon-1pm
Seminar Zoom Link
In-person seminars - 165 Wallace Hall (lunch provided)
Sea level rise poses an existential threat to Jakarta, which faces frequent and worsening flooding. The government has responded with a proposed sea wall. In this setting, I study how government intervention complicates long-run adaptation to climate change. I show that government intervention creates coastal moral hazard, and…
Join SPIA’s Graduate Career Development and Alumni Relations, SPIA in NJ, and the Gender Policy Network for an afternoon of alumni panels, including:
Careers in Domestic Social Policy: Alumni on the Realities of Implementing Equitable Federal and Local Policy
Careers in Gender Policy
What role do critiques of US imperial strategy have within the field of Black Studies, and in what ways should these critiques impact public policy? This lecture will explore these questions by considering the debates on anti-imperialism through a range of institutions and organizations, paying special attention to questions of…
