Workshop on Culture, History, and Society

Coordination and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The "Ordinary Men" of the Nazi Party Speaker Luis Bosshart, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political...

Family Formation and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940 Speaker Hero Ashman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES), Harvard University. Faculty Sponsors...

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery Speaker John Harpham, Wick Cary Assistant Professor of Constitutional Studies, The University of Oklahoma. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department...

Regional Embeddedness and the Moral Economy of Public Transit in the Bay Area, California Speaker Rachel Y. Kim, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology...

Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition Speaker Kathleen Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology...

Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India Speaker Jason B. Jackson, Associate Professor in Political Economy and Urban Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT...

The Payback of Decolonization: Capital Expropriations and Postcolonial Linkages Speaker Simon Bittmann, CNRS Research Fellow and Professor of Historical Sociology, University of Strasbourg. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John...

Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System Speaker Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, Northeastern University. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles...

Mapping Moral Boundaries: Historical Change and Justification in Sociological Practice Speaker Shai Dromi, Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of...

Order, Authority, Nation: Neo-socialism, Fascism, and the Dynamics of Political Conversion Speaker Mathieu Hikaru Desan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles...