Race & Ethnicity Training Seminar

***In Fall 2008-09, R&E will meet jointly with the ITP Seminar,
focusing on Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Education***

[In the Spring, R&E will resume meeting separately on Mondays at noon]

Fridays 12:00-1:30pm
Education Sci 13th floor conference room

Organizer: Ruth N. López Turley

The Race & Ethnicity Training Seminar is a weekly seminar consisting of graduate students and faculty who are interested in issues of race and ethnicity in the US and other countries. It provides a forum for discussing student and faculty work in progress, as well as more polished work to be used for job talks and conference presentations. Each semester, a few speakers from outside the department also share their work, providing an opportunity to network with race & ethnicity scholars.

Students planning to attend at least 75% of the seminars should register for Soc 987 to get 1 credit for the semester. Presenters can register for up to 3 credits and should notify the organizer of any equipment needs. In addition, please refer to "Tips for Presenters."

This is a brownbag seminar, so you are welcomed to bring your lunch.

F A L L - 2 0 0 8 - S C H E D U L E
Date Speaker Topic
9/5 Ruth López Turley, UW Sociology The Role of Familism in Explaining the Hispanic-White College Application Gap
9/12 Lynn Okagaki, Institute of Education Sciences Closing Achievement Gaps: Solution-Driven Research
9/19 Sarah Bruch, UW Sociology Racial Differences in Educational Outcomes: An Examination of Structure and Process
9/26 Samuel R. Lucas, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley Constrained Opportunity, Varied Preferences: Some Evidence Bearing on Two Contested Explanations of Racial Inequality
10/3 Angel Harris, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, and WCER Visiting Minority Scholar A Search for Oppositional Culture
10/10 Meir Yaish, Department of Sociology, Haifa University Palestinian-Jewish Inequality in Education in Israel: Proposal for a Critical Test of Resistance Theory in Education
10/17 Robert M. Hauser and Megan Andrew, UW Sociology Evaluating the ‘Strategic’ Center: Race-Ethnic Differences in Applying and Updating Educational Expectations
10/24 Mark Seidenberg, UW Psychology Language Background and School Achievement
10/31 Katherine Magnuson, UW Social Work Steady Gains, Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap
11/7 Anna Haskins, UW Sociology Effects of Paternal Incarceration on Children's Academic Achievement
11/14 Julie Washington, UW Communicative Disorders Emergent Literacy in African American Children
11/21 Derek Neal, Dept of Economics, University of Chicago TBA
11/28 THANKSGIVING BREAK  
12/5 Mustafa Emirbayer, UW Sociology Theories of Racial Domination: Implications for Educational Inequality
12/12

Nicholas Mader, UW Economics

 Differentiated Educational Markets, Imperfect Competition, and School Choice: Evidence from the Milwaukee Voucher Program