Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are 12pm-1:30pm in 3470 Sewell.
| Date | Topic |
| Sept 9 | Organizational Meeting |
| Sept 16 | Discussion: Race Theory and the Measure of RaceFacilitator: David Rangel |
| Sept 23 | No meeting |
| Sept 25 (Wed) | Elijah Anderson, Yale University“Trayvon Martin and the New American Color Line”[Department Colloquium, cohosted with SPAM; 12:15-2pm; 8417 Sewell] |
| Sept 30 | Bowen Paulle, University of Amsterdam“Toxic Schools” |
| Oct 7 | Megan Shoji“Nice to Meet You? The Development of Supportive Parent-School Relationships in Low-Income Latino Communities” |
| Oct 10 (Thurs) | Jessie Daniels, CUNY-Hunter”Our version of consciousness-raising groups”: Gender, Race and the Political Economy of Feminist Online Activism[Femsem; 12:30-2pm; 2435 Sewell] |
| Oct 14 | Joseph Ewoodzie“Getting Something to Eat: Foodways Among the Poor and Homeless in Jackson, MS.” |
| Oct 18 (Fri) | Breakfast with Bandana Puraystha, University of Connecticut[Sponsored by Femsem] |
| Oct 21 | Canceled |
| Oct 28 | Johanna Quinn“Talking about a Revolution? Dissecting the Popular Debate over K12 Education and the Quest to Reform Failing Schools” |
| Nov 4 | Canceled |
| Nov 11 | Discussion: Fostering the Critical Use of Measures of Race in Wisconsin Sociology |
| Nov 18 | Armando Lara-Millán“Redistributing the Poor: The Politics of Hospital and Jail Overcrowding”[Sociology Department Job Talk; 12:15-1.45p; 8417 Sewell] |
| Nov 25 | Abigail Andrews“For the Love of My Pueblo: Gender, Migration, and Development in Transnational Mexican Communities”[Sociology Department Job Talk; 12:15-1.45p; 8417 Sewell] |
| Dec 2 | Adam Goldstein“Stratification, Financialization, and the Growth of Household Debt in the U.S., 1989-2007”[Sociology Department Job Talk; 12:15-1.45p; 8417 Sewell] |
| Dec 5 (Thurs) | Tressie McMillan Cottom, UC-Davis Center for Poverty”Organized for Profit or the Public Good? Lessons from the Expansion of the For-Profit College Sector for the U.S. Higher Education Landscape”[Femsem; 12:30-2pm; 2435 Sewell] |
| Dec 9 | Christopher Muller“Land, Labor Mobility, and Racial Inequality in Convict Leasing in the Postbellum U.S. South”[Sociology Department Job Talk; 12:15-1.45p; 8417 Sewell] |