# Previous Events ##### **Fall 2024 Workshop Calendar** **September 19, 2024:** [**Ieva Jusionyte**](https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/watson-faculty/ieva-jusionyte), Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University, on her book "Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border" **October 3, 2024:** [**Sarah Gallo**](https://gse.rutgers.edu/faculty/sarah-gallo/)**,** Associate Professor of Language Education and Urban Social Justice at Rutgers University, on "We’re Border-Crossers Too": Re-Imaginando Ethnographic Research Methods with Children Built from Border-Crossing Epistemologies **October 31, 2024:** [**Nora Gross**](https://education.barnard.edu/profiles/nora-gross)**,** Assistant Professor of Education at Barnard College, on her book "Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools" **November 14, 2024**: **DA Evrard**, PhD candidate at Harvard University Department of Sociology, on "“An Island of Sanity Within a Sea of Lunacy: Petro-Environmentalism and the Struggle Over Environmental Justice” **December 5, 2024:** [**Inés Escobar González**](https://www.escobargonzalez.com), Junior Fellow of Harvard Society of Fellows ##### **Spring 2024 Workshop Calendar** **January 25, 2024** [**Rachel Ellis**](https://ccjs.umd.edu/facultyprofile/ellis/rachel), Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Maryland, on *In This Place Called Prison: Women's Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment* (University of California Press, 2023) **February 8, 2024:** [**Gabriella Coleman**](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/gabriella-coleman), Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University on "The Hack-and-Leak and the Rise of an Activist Tactic" **February 22, 2024:** [**Yanilda Gonzalez**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez), Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School on “Rebuilding Citizenship After State Violence” **March 7, 2024: Edom Tesfa**, PhD student at Harvard University, on “Engaging in and learning about critical care as a scholar-practitioner" and **Michael Vázquez**, PhD student at Harvard University, on “"Bigger than a Syllabus": Cross-Racial Learning and Solidarity at the College of Ethnic Studies” **March 28, 2024:** [**Nicholas Limerick**](https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/nl2539/)**,** Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education, Columbia University Teachers College, on "Translating the law to Kichwa: Intertextuality, bilingual education, and state power in Ecuador" **April 11, 2024**: [**Jason De León**](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/jason-de-leon/), Professor of Anthropology, UCLA, on "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" Co-hosted by Harvard University Department of History **April 18, 2024**: [**Neil Gong**](https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty%20members/gong-neil.html), Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, San Diego, on his new book *Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles* (University of Chicago Press, 2024) ##### **Fall 2023 Workshop Calendar** ![img1.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img1.png) **September 14, 2023** [**Blair Sackett**](https://watson.brown.edu/people/postdocs/sackett), Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University [**Annette Lareau**](https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/annette-lareau), Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania *"We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America"* **September 28, 2023** [**Mario L. Small**](https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/mario-l-small), Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University [**Jessica Calarco**](https://sociology.wisc.edu/staff/calarco-jessica/), Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison *"Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research"* **October 12, 2023** **Nikhil Goyal**, former senior policy advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders *"Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty"* **October 26, 2023** [**Joseph Wallerstein**](https://www.josephwallerstein.com/), PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University *“Executive Worldviews and Institutional Norms: The Case of Homelessness- and Housing-Focused Nonprofits"* **November 9, 2023** [**Yanilda González**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez), Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (rescheduled for Spring 2024) **November 30, 2023** Student presentations ##### **Spring 2023 Workshop Calendar** ![img2.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img2.png) **February 9, 2023** [**Joseph Ewoodzie, Jr.**](https://www.davidson.edu/people/joseph-ewoodzie-jr), Associate Professor of Sociology and Vann Professor of Racial Justice, Davidson College *“Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South”* **March 23, 2023** [**Philippe Bourgois**](https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/philippe-bourgois/), Professor of Social Medicine and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles *“Incarceration and Mental Illness in the United States: The Case of the Los Angeles County Jail, Largest Locked De Facto Psychiatric Facility in the World”* **March 30, 2023** **Sarah Bruhn** , Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard University *“Schools: Making Real the Promise of Sanctuary”* **April 6, 2023** **Peter Harvey,** Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University *“‘Good,’ ‘Stupid,’ and ‘Fine’: Teacher-Student Relationships and the Processes of Race and Class Discrimination”* **April 13, 2023** **Jessica Katzenstein,** Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University *“Thinking Threat First: Scenario Trainings, Fear, and Police Common Sense”* **April 20, 2023** [**C.J. Pascoe**](https://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/cpascoe/), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon *“Nice is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High”* ##### **Fall 2022 Workshop Calendar** ![img3.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img3.png) **September 22, 2022** "IRB Advice for Ethnographers at Harvard" [**Shannon Sewards**](https://cuhs.harvard.edu/people/shannon-sewards), Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects, Harvard IRB, Harvard University **October 6, 2022** Sonic Ethnography Workshop [**Ernst Karel**](https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/ernst-karel), Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard University, featuring: "Feeling 125th Street," by [**Ria Gyawali**](https://cmp.gsas.harvard.edu/directory/ria-gyawali/), Doctoral Student in Anthropology, Harvard University "Scores for Humoral Medicine," by [**Shireen Hamza**](https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/shireen-hamza), Doctoral Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University "An Archeology of Pain and Dreams," by [**Aaron Benavidez**](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/aaron-benavidez), Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University "New Jail," by [**Parker Hatley**](https://cmp.gsas.harvard.edu/directory/thomas-parker-hatley/), Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, Harvard University **November 3, 2022** "Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity" [**Armando Lara-Millán**](https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/armando-lara-millan), Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley \*Co-sponsored by the Qualitative Working Group, Department of Sociology, Harvard University **November 17, 2022** "What Do You Do With 11,470 Hours of Video Data?" [**Joanne W. Golann**](https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/joanne-golann), Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University **December 1, 2022** "Inequality in 'Post-Crisis' Finance: Apprehending Expropriation in Corporations and Housing" [**Karen Ho**](https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/karenho#publications), Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota ##### **Spring 2022 Workshop Calendar** ![img4.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img4.png) **Thursday, March 24, 2022** “Reconstructing Race: New Orleans School Privatization Experiment" [**Christien Philmarc Tompkins**](https://anthropology.rutgers.edu/195-people/full-time-faculty/775-christien-philmarc-tompkins), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University Via Zoom **Thursday,** **April 28, 2022** “Taking Up Space: Youth Culture and Creative Resistance in a Gentrifying City” [**Raquel Jimenez**](http://www.pz.harvard.edu/who-we-are/people/raquel-jimenez), Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University “Soy una Sobreviviente: Sacrificing to Stay in a Gentrifying City” [**Sarah Bruhn**](https://scholar.harvard.edu/sarahbruhn/home), Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University Moderated by [**Sharon Cornelisssen**](https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/staff/sharon-cornelissen), Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University Via Zoom ##### **Fall 2021 Workshop Calendar** ![img5.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img5.png) **Thursday, October 14, 2021** "Harvard IRB for Ethnographers" [**Shannon Sewards**](https://cuhs.harvard.edu/people/shannon-sewards), Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB), Harvard University Via Zoom **Thursday, December 2, 2021** **“**Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra” **Anima Adjepong**, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies, University of Cincinnati Via Zoom ##### **Spring 2021 Workshop Calendar** ![img6.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img6.png) **Thursday, February 11, 2021** *Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture* [**Stefano Bloch**](https://geography.arizona.edu/people/stefano-bloch), Assistant Professor in the School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona Via Zoom **Thursday, February 18, 2021** *The Making of a Teenage Service Class:* Poverty and Mobility in an American City [**Ranita Ray**](https://www.unlv.edu/people/ranita-ray), Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Via Zoom **Thursday, February 25, 2021** *Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid* [**William Lopez**](https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/lopez-william.html), Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Michigan Via Zoom **Thursday, March 11, 2021** *Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles* [**Rocío Rosales**](https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6093), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine Via Zoom **Thursday, March 25, 2021** *Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration* [**Reuben Jonathan Miller**](https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/r-miller), Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Via Zoom **Thursday, April 8, 2021** *The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia* [**Orly Clerge**](https://sociology.ucdavis.edu/people/oclerge), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis Via Zoom ##### **Fall 2020 Workshop Calendar** ![img7.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img7.png) **Thursday, September 17, 2020** “IRB for Ethnographers” [**Shannon Sewards**](https://cuhs.harvard.edu/people/shannon-sewards), Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects (IRB), Harvard University Via Zoom **Thursday, October 1, 2020** “How Ambiguity around Diversity and Inclusion Turned Pride into Shame” [**Sandra Portocarrero**](https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/sandra-veronica-portocarrero), Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Columbia University Via Zoom **Thursday, October 15, 2020** “Racial Segregation, Predatory Real Estate Practices and the Undermining of Black Neighborhoods in Baltimore.” **Christine Jang-Trettien**, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University Via Zoom **Thursday, October 29, 2020** “Intergenerational and Collaborative Ethnography with Indigenous Oaxaqueño Mixed-Status Families” **Seth Holmes**, Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Via Zoom **Thursday, November 12, 2020** “State’s Structural Violences and the Construction of Femininity in the Colombian ELN Guerrilla Movement” [**Attilio Bernasconi**](https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/attilio-bernasconi), Doctoral Candidate and Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Via Zoom **Thursday, December 3, 2020** “Hit Doctors at Work: Marginality and the Practice of Expertise among People who Inject Drugs” [**Sarah Brothers**](https://sociology.yale.edu/people/sarah-brothers), Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Yale University Via Zoom ##### **Spring 2020 Workshop Calendar** ![41cef1cd99e159688a254cc0ecb6aa6a.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/41cef1cd99e159688a254cc0ecb6aa6a.jpg) **Thursday, March 5, 2020** “Producing Luxury, Consuming Women, and Studying Up among the New Global Elite” [**Ashley Mears**](https://www.bu.edu/sociology/faculty-staff/faculty/ashley-mears/), Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston University 1550 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge **Nota Bene:** Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all other workshops were postponed to th e Fall 2020 semester. ##### **Fall 2019 Workshop Calendar** ![img8.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1921/files/2024-08/img8.png) **Thursday, October 10, 2019** "IRB for Ethnographers" [**Shannon Sewards**](https://cuhs.harvard.edu/people/shannon-sewards), Director of the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects, Harvard University 601 William James Hall W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar Room **Friday, October 11, 2019** “Disposable Houses: An Ethnography of ‘Unreal Estate’ in Detroit” [**Sharon Cornelissen**](https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/faculty-and-staff/sharon-cornelissen), Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University One Bow Street, 4th Floor Co-Sponsored with the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University **Thursday, October 24, 2019** “The American Dream Deferred: Immigrant Educational Incorporation in the New Latino South” [**Daphne M. Penn**](https://www.daphnepenn.com/), Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University “Caring State Contra Healthy Society? State-Making And Indigenous Resurgence in Deanuleahki, Sápmi” [**Annikki Herranen-Tabibi**](https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/people/annikki-herranen-tabibi), Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University 1550 William James Hall **Thursday, November 14, 2019** "Post-Disaster Citizenship: Racial Politics after Fukushima" [**Vivian Shaw**](https://www.vivian-shaw.com/about), College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University 601 William James Hall W.E.B. Du Bois Seminar Room