January 24th. Josh Barkan, from UGA’s Department of Geography. Josh just published with Minnesota a book on globalization, titled Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism. February 14th. Michael Lovaglia, University of Iowa. This presentation is cosponsored with LaSSI. Michael’s current research projects involve power in exchange networks, group process effects on IQ scores, the effects of emotions on status processes, and explaining why more women than men now attend colleges and universities. A new project, Best Schools for Athletes, investigates how schools can promote athletic and academic excellence without compromising either goal. Location: MLC 250. March 21st. Kerstin Gerst Emerson, from UGA’s Department of Health Policy & Management and the Institute of Gerontology. Kerstin’s work focuses on the health of older Latino immigrants to the U.S. Location: MLC 148 April 11th. Matthew Desmond, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, Harvard University. He is the SGSS-sponsored spring colloquium speaker. Desmond's primary teaching and research interests include urban sociology, poverty, race and ethnicity, organizations and work, social theory, and ethnography. He is the author of three books: On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters (2007), Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America (with Mustafa Emirbayer, 2009), and The Racial Order (with Mustafa Emirbayer, forthcoming). He has written essays on educational inequality, dangerous work, political ideology, race and social theory, and the inner-city housing market. Most recently, he has published on eviction and the low-income rental market, network-based survival strategies among the urban poor, and the consequences of new crime control policies on inner-city women in the American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review. (http://scholar.harvard.edu/mdesmond) Location: MLC 250 April 25th. Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin Madison. Erik Wright is a recent past President of the American Sociological Association and the author of Envisioning Real Utopias. Wright's work focuses on class analysis, historical change, economic sociology, gender, and political sociology. (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/) Location: MLC 250
