Spring 2021

Emily Ryo, Professor of Law and Sociology, USC Gould School of Law View video Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2021, 118 (21). View article » U.S. immigration enforcement policy seeks to change the behaviors and views of...

Kimberly Kay Hoang, Associate Professor of Sociology and the College and Director of Global Studies, University of Chicago This seminar was not recorded. Playing in the Gray is a comparative study of how global elites capitalize on risky frontier markets...

Jamila Michener, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University. View video » Civil legal institutions (including civil courts, legal aid organizations, and grassroots community groups that advocate around civil legal issues) play a crucial role in...

Sara Heller, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. Due to data restrictions, this seminar was not recorded. Every year in the U.S., an estimated 65,000 people are shot or killed by guns, with young Black men 20 times as likely to die...

John J. Donohue III, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School View video » Donohue and Levitt (2001) presented evidence that the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s played an important role in the crime drop of the...

Laura K. Nelson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University. View video » View paper » Machine learning is a rapidly growing research paradigm. Despite its foundationally inductive mathematical assumptions, the machine learning paradigm is...

Johanna Rickne, Professor of Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. View video » Abstract Joint with Olle Folke, Uppsala University We argue that sexual harassment is a discriminatory work condition that constitutes a tax...

Julia Payson, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University. View video » View paper » Since the Progressive Era, reformers and scholars alike have theorized that municipal governments would operate more cost-effectively if they were modeled after...

Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY View video » A widely accepted demographic narrative for the U.S. holds that, by the middle of this century, whites will become a minority of the population, outnumbered by the...

Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University View video » In the context of COVID, growing inequality, and political polarization, I am...