Spring 2021
February 5, 2021
Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants
- James McCann, Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
- Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
- Discussant: Sofya Aptekar, Associate Professor of Urban Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
- Co-sponsor: PhD Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
February 19, 2021
Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough
- Pawan Dhingra, Professor of American Studies, Amherst College
- Co-sponsors: CUNY Asian American/Asian Research Institute, Hunter College Asian American Studies Program & AANAPISI Project
March 5, 2021
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States
- Allan Colbern, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Arizona State University
- Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of California, Riverside
- Discussant: Monica Varsanyi, Professor of Political Science, John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center
- Co-sponsors: PhD Program in Political Science & PhD Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
March 12, 2021
The President and Immigration Law
- Adam Cox, Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law, New York University Law School
- Cristina Rodríguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Moderator: Julie Suk, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Liberal Studies and Dean for Master’s Programs, CUNY Graduate Center; Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Discussant: Anna Law, Associate Professor of Political Science & Herb Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, Brooklyn College of CUNY
- Co-sponsor: PhD Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
March 26, 2021
The Browning of the New South: Race, Immigration, and Minority Linked Fate
- Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American/Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
April 9, 2021
Reuniting Families: Central American Minors between Separation and Family Reunification
- Ernesto Castañeda, Associate Professor of Sociology, American University
April 23, 2021
Represented But Unequal: The Contingent Effect of Legal Representation in Removal Proceedings
- Emily Ryo, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
April 30, 2021
Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era
- Ming Hsu Chen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
- Co-sponsor: PhD Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Fall 2020
September 11, 2020
The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
- Richard D. Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Panelists:
- Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- John H. Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
October 2, 2020
Immigration and the Institutions of Opportunity in a Regional Technology Economy
- Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology, Cornell University
October 23, 2020
Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder
- Margaret M. Chin, Associate Professor of Sociology, CUNY Hunter College & Graduate Center
- Panelist: Vivian S. Louie, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, CUNY Hunter College
- Co-sponsors: CUNY Graduate Center, Advanced Research Collaborative
October 30, 2020
The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood
- Grace Kao, Chair and IBM Professor of Sociology, Yale University
November 6, 2020
New People, New Places: The Changing Landscape of International Migration in the United States
- Panelists:
- Jennifer L. Erickson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ball State University
- Daniel T. Lichter, Ferris Family Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
- Helen B. Marrow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University
- Abigail Fisher Williamson, Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy & Law, Trinity College
November 20, 2020
Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France
- Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
December 11, 2020
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms
- Ismael García-Colón, Associate Professor of Anthropology, CUNY College of Staten Island & Graduate Center
