Politics and Social Change Workshop

Kickoff and Professional Development Please join us for food, fellowship, and brainstorming our workshop goals - alongside your individual goals - for the semester ahead. In the last 45 minutes, Professor Jocelyn Viterna will lead a professionalization...

Party Personnel and Strategy 'Becoming a Party': How Technocrats Leave behind Minority Populations in Pursuit of Electoral Success Speaker: Hera Shakil, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago. Capturing the GOP...

Bureaucracy on the Ground-Level "AI Robots for Elder Care: Technological Adaptation by Street-level Bureaucrats" Speaker: Nayun Eom, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. "Immigrant Advocates in a Rapidly Changing, Anti-Immigrant...

"Political Socialization and Ideology Formation" "The Structure of American Ideological Beliefs and Implications for Movement Framing Strategies" Speaker: Firdaous Sbaï, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. "The Origins of...

"Socioeconomic Policy across Time and Place" "The Crisis of Asset Homeownership: Remaking Landed Economic Security in America" Speaker: Luis Flores, Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School. "(Dis)incentives for women’s returning to work...

"Party Building" "Diversity as Hegemony: Right-Wing from Marginalized Backgrounds and the Demographic Expansion of the Political Right" Speaker: Adam Burston, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara. "Organizing a...

"Transnational Neoliberalism and Foreign Aid" "Fragile Neoliberalism: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Latin America’s Free-Market Movement" Speaker: Tomás Gold, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Watson Institute, Brown University. "Capable Consultants...

"State-Society Relations and Policy Consequences" "Community Government, Territory, Self-determination and Relationships with the State in Nahuatl and Tenek Communities of the Huasteca region of Mexico" Speaker: Solomon Rodd, MPA Candidate, Harvard...

"Spring Semester Welcome" Chair: Jocelyn Viterna, Acting Director, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor, Department of Sociology; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and...

"Racialized Organizations & Policy" Speakers: Brian Sargent, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sandra Portocarrero, Assistant Professor of Management, London School of Economics. Daanika Gordon...