Past Events



Faculty Meeting (Standing Faculty Only)

Oct 10, 2018 at -



PSC Colloquium Series: TBA

TBA
Oct 8, 2018 at -



MARC Workshop

Leslie Jones, Penn Sociology Ph.D. Candidate; "Toward an Intellectual Genealogy of Digitally Enabled Black Feminism"
Oct 4, 2018 at -

In this presentation, Jones will situate Black cyberfeminism on Twitter within a history of Black technoculturalinnovation. Building on three years of participant observation as well her own archive of Twitter…



Center for Teaching and Learning Workshop: Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Beyond Lecturing: Incorporating Active Learning
Sep 28, 2018 at -

What kinds of learning opportunities can we provide students in a course with no lectures? Research on active learning has shown that using strategies that engage students as participants in their learning during…



Education & Inequality: Sharon Wolf, Assistant Professor, Penn GSE

Workshop
Experimental impacts of the “Quality Preschool for Ghana” interventions
Sep 28, 2018 at -

We assessed the impacts of a teacher professional development program for public and private kindergartens in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. We examined impacts on teacher professional well-being, classroom…



Education and Inequality Works-in-Progress Meeting

Tom Wooten, Feedback on Spencer proposal: An Ethnography of the Transition to College for Low-Income Students
Sep 27, 2018 at -



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Melissa Wilde, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Colloquium
"Birth of the Culture Wars: How Race and Class Divided American Religion."
Sep 26, 2018 at -



PSC Colloquium Series: Matthew Ruther, Assistant Professor of Urban & Public Affairs / State Demographer, University of Louisville

Explaining Health Disparities in the Sexual Minority Population: Health Behaviors, Access to Care, and Neighborhood Effects
Sep 24, 2018 at -



Family & Gender: Natalie Young, Ph.D. Candidate, Penn Sociology

Workshop
Pathways of Influence: Families' Efforts to Transform the Rules of the Middle School Admissions Arena in China
Sep 21, 2018 at -

Much empirical research within the sociology of education field portrays the conversion of socioeconomic resources into advantages at school as a relatively natural, seamless process. Largely overlooked is how social…