#  Current Schedule 

 



**Spring 2026:**

**February 19, 2026**: [**Cat O'Donnell**](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/catharina-odonnell), PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "*Making the GOP Great Again: Organizational Conflict and Institutional Transformation in the Republican Part*y"

**March 5, 2026**: [**Loren Beard**](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/loren-beard), Harvard College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "*Governance Undone: Bureaucratic Churning in the Case of Child Warfare*"

**March 12, 2026**: [**Madeline Phuong**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeline-phuong/) and [**Cy Schwalbe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cy-schwalbe-37b72a246/), Undergraduate Students and Refugee Fieldwork Program Officers, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "*Refugee Fieldwork: Insights, Obstacles, and Ethics*"

**March 26, 2026**: [**Kayla Thomas**](https://www.bates.edu/faculty/profile/kayla-k-thomas/), Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology and Africana Studies, Bates College, on "*"The ‘Crown Heights Corner’: Deregulation, Disrepair, and Tenant Organizing in a Single Building in Brooklyn, New York"*

**Fall 2025:**

**September 11, 2025**: [**Major Eason**](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/major-eason), PhD student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "*Ain’t Nothing but Dollar General: Reputation Management in an Environmental Community*"

**October 2, 2025:** [**Aaron Benavidez**](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/aaron-benavidez), PhD student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "*Sense and Sensoria: An Invitation to Multisensorial Ethnography*"

**October 16, 2025:** [**Joanna Dreby**](https://www.albany.edu/sociology/faculty/joanna-dreby), Professor of Sociology, SUNY at Albany, on "*On Shutdowns and Trauma: Surviving while Researching the ICE Age in New York*"

**October 30, 2025:** [**Sarah Vaughn**](https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/sarah-e-vaughn), Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, on "*Steps Toward Staying Alive: The 1.5 C Threshold and Ways of Knowing and Thriving with Lines*"

**November 13, 2025:** [**Jon Wargo**](https://marsal.umich.edu/directory/faculty-staff/jon-m-wargo), Associate Professor of Education, University of Michigan, on *"Do You Feel That?" Tracing the Affective Relationscapes of Youth Learning to Play a Part Together*

**November 20, 2025:** [**Derron Wallace**](https://annenberg.brown.edu/people/derron-o-wallace)**,** Associate Professor of Education Policy and Africana Studies, Brown University, on *"When Culture Traps: Ethnic Picks, Racial Tricks and the Secret Life of Social Class"*