About the Department

Sociology Colloquium Series

Medical Sociology
Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology
Indiana University, Bloomington
"The Structural and Cultural Cartography of Tolerance: Stigma, Mental Illness and the Public"

Criminology
D. Wayne Osgood, Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology
Pennsylvania State University
"Adolescent Friendship Networks, Delinquency, and Substance Use: Findings from the PROSPER Peers Project"
Race and Ethnic Relations
Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
"Post-Racial Dreams, American Realities: Does the Color Line Endure?"

Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor
of Sociology
Princeton University
"Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation."
Criminology (deferred to 2012)
Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
"Inequality and the American City: Implications of the Neighborhood Effect"
Medical Sociology
Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"Evaluating the Theory of Fundamental Social Causes of Health Disparities: Recent Developments"
Medical Sociology
Jo C. Phelan, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences: A Backdoor to Eugenics"
Race and Ethnic Relations
Stephen Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
"The Death and Resurrection of 'White Sociology'"

Criminology
Janet Lauritsen, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Missouri-St. Louis
"The Gender Gap in Violent Victimization, 1973-2005"
Medical Sociology
Duane McBride, Research Professor of Sociology
Andrews University
"United States Public Health Agency Involvement in Youth-Focused Illicit Drug Policy, Planning, and Prevention"

Race and Ethnic Relations
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology
Duke University

Murray Webster, Professor of Sociology
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Writing Winning Proposals"
Criminology
Ruth D. Peterson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Ohio State University
Medical Sociology
Stevan E. Hobfoll, Professor of Psychology
Kent State University
"Terrorism, Trauma, and Democracy: Terrorisms Tearing at Our Emotions and Humanity"
Medical Sociology
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Senior Economist
RAND Corporation
"The Impact of Marijuana Use on Human Capital Formation"
Race and Ethnic Relations
William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Harvard University
"The Roots of Racial Tensions"