Politics and Social Change Workshop

How Organizational Practices Mediate Social Movement Claims: Race, Gender, and the Parental Rights Movement Speaker Hannah Castner, PhD Student in Sociology, Harvard University. How much is a Bomb Worth?: Race, Place, and the Valuation of Toxic Industry...

The Case Against Asylum: The Catch-22 of Refugee-Antipathy Discourse Speaker Danilo Mandic, Associate Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University. Contact Hannah Castner hcastner@g.harvard.edu

How Movements Shape Parties from the Inside: Evidence from the Republican Party Organization in Two States Speaker Catharina O’Donnell, Graduate Student Affiliate; Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program; Graduate Research Fellow, Weatherhead Research...

Organizing the Bosses: Voluntary Agreements and the Politics of Class Compromise in the U.S. Building Trades Speaker Matt Carson, PhD Student in Sociology, Harvard University. Constructing Compromise: Regional Coalition-Building, Local Developmental...

Infrastructures of Intimacy: Technology, Gender, and Family Formation in the Digital Era Speaker Zehra Yildirim, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University. Contact Hannah Castner hcastner@g.harvard.edu

Kickoff and Professional Development Please join us for food, fellowship, and brainstorming our workshop goals - alongside your individual goals - for the semester ahead. In the last 45 minutes, Professor Jocelyn Viterna will lead a professionalization...

Party Personnel and Strategy 'Becoming a Party': How Technocrats Leave behind Minority Populations in Pursuit of Electoral Success Speaker: Hera Shakil, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago. Capturing the GOP...

Bureaucracy on the Ground-Level "AI Robots for Elder Care: Technological Adaptation by Street-level Bureaucrats" Speaker: Nayun Eom, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. "Immigrant Advocates in a Rapidly Changing, Anti-Immigrant...

"Political Socialization and Ideology Formation" "The Structure of American Ideological Beliefs and Implications for Movement Framing Strategies" Speaker: Firdaous Sbaï, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. "The Origins of...

"Socioeconomic Policy across Time and Place" "The Crisis of Asset Homeownership: Remaking Landed Economic Security in America" Speaker: Luis Flores, Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School. "(Dis)incentives for women’s returning to work...