Integration into the international community is typically used to explain liberal outcomes. However, is it possible that such integration can also explain rising illiberalism? Using the case of LGBT+ rights, I argue that backlash to liberal norms is increasingly organized transnationally and that exposure to global norms via integration explains both liberal and illiberal outcomes. I test this argument through extensive original data collection and by using time-series cross-section, multinomial, and cross-lagged panel models.

In this talk, I examine the power of data-intensive surveillance to influence individual trajectories, population-level disparities, and inequalities long important to sociologists. As I demonstrate, surveillance influences outcomes through a process of making individuals legible to the state—that is, expanding the depth and breadth of the state’s capacity to “know” its population.

Dr. Ispa-Landa analyzes women's sexual assault prevention efforts within historically white Greek life at an elite university. This research highlights how women's strategies for personal safety intersect with their efforts to gain social status within settings that institutionalize gendered power imbalances. As I show, these strategies can paradoxically increase vulnerability to sexual violence, particularly for women in "middle-tier" sororities within a rigid hierarchical system that ranks sorority houses into tiers from highest to lowest status.

Letícia Marteleto, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology, Talk title: "Climate, Epidemics & Reproductive Health"

Talk Abstract: In the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from immigrants to LGBTQ coalitions. However, increasingly since the 1980s, right-wing social movements have remade the memory of Dr. King and civil rights to portray themselves as the newly oppressed minorities.

Abstract: Research on tokenism has mostly focused on negative experiences and career outcomes for individuals who are tokenized. Comparatively understudied are tokenism as a structural system that excludes larger populations, and the meso-level cultural foundations under which tokenism occurs. We focus on these other sides of tokenism using original data on the creation and long-term retention of postcolonial literature. In an institutional environment in which the British publishing industry was consolidating the production of non-U.S.

Interacting with coworkers is tricky work. To collaborate effectively, coworkers must build rapport while also not overstepping personal boundaries. Navigating this boundary between the personal and the professional is riskier when one’s job requires having sex with different coworkers every day. I explore this core workplace tension by drawing on an extensive ethnographic study of the Los Angeles pornography and adult content creation (i.e. OnlyFans) industry, including 70 interviews with industry members, observations of over 50 pornographic shoots, and fieldwork at other events.