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News
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September 14, 2017
Leslie Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, a Price Mellon Graduate Fellow for 2017-2018
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September 14, 2017
Dorothy Roberts Discusses a New Approach for Criminal Justice with Penn Law
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August 31, 2017
Ph.D. Student Amanda Barrett Cox Receives Honorable Mention from ASA's Section on Sociology of Education
Events
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PSC Colloquium Series: Jennie E. Brand, Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA Social Sciences Division
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 12:00pm
103 McNeil Building
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Education & Inequality: Works-in-Progress Meeting
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - 10:00am
PSC Conference Room, 5th Fl. McNeil
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Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Amada Armenta, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - 12:00pm
103 McNeil Building