Author Archives: Charles Kurzman

September 8, 2023: Charles Kurzman, UNC-Chapel Hill. September 22, 2023: Francesca Tripodi, UNC-Chapel Hill. October 13, 2023: Todd Lu, UNC-Chapel Hill. October 27, 2023: Catherine Tan, Vassar College. November 3, 2023: Katie Furl, UNC-Chapel Hill. November 10, 2023: Dominique Baker, … Continue reading →

January 20, 2023: Austin Vo and Michelle Dromgold-Sermen, UNC-Chapel Hill, “How States Shape Migration Flows and Enact Power Beyond Their Borders: 1990-2020.” February 3, 2023: Katie Furl, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Moralizing Authenticity on r/instagramreality.” February 17, 2023: Will Holtkamp, UNC-Chapel Hill, … Continue reading →

August 26, 2022: Risa Murase, UNC-Chapel Hill, “From Them to Us? The Interaction of Law and Media Framing of Immigrants in 1987-1990 and 2016-2019 Japan.” September 9, 2022: Jacob Conley, UNC-Chapel Hill, “The Consequences of Disruptive Tactics for Social Movement … Continue reading →

January 21, 2022: Craig Rawlings, Duke University, “The Polarization of American Popular Culture: Scope and Mechanisms.” February 4, 2022: Todd Lu, UNC-Chapel Hill, “At the Crossroads of Climate, Jobs, and Justice: Green Jobs Frames Among Offshore Wind Energy Coalitions in North … Continue reading →

August 27, 2021: Ashley Anderson, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Workers in an Era of Change: Union Responses to Early Neoliberal Reforms.” September 10, 2021: Michelle Dromgold-Sermen, UNC-Chapel Hill, “To What Extent Does Policy Matter? Measuring the Impacts of Nationality Law Reform.” September … Continue reading →

January 29: Micah Nelson, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Resentment is Like Drinking Poison? The Heterogenous Health Consequences of Affective Polarization.” February 12: Laura Nelson, Northeastern University, “And the Rest is History: Leveraging the Alignment Between Machine Learning and Intersectional, Cultural, and Inductive … Continue reading →

August 21: Neda Maghbouleh, University of Toronto (with Ariela Schachter and René Flores), “Ancestry, Color, or Culture? How Whites Racially Classify Others in the U.S.” September 4: Charles Kurzman, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Citizism,” Chap. 1. September 18: Brandon Gorman, University at … Continue reading →

January 16: Pam Paxton (with Kristopher Velasco), University of Texas, Austin, “Deconstructed and Constructive Logics: Explaining Inclusive Language Change in LGBT Nonprofits, 1998-2016.” January 31: Ken Cai Kowalski, “Constructions of Plausibility in Capitalist and Noncapitalist Futures of Labor Automation.” February … Continue reading →

August 30: Akram Al-Turk and David Rigby, “The Emergence and Transformation of Policy Ideas in the U.S. Congress, 1946-2015.” September 13: Laura Krull, “The (Rainbow) Elephant in the Email: An Analysis of Gatekeeping in Church Emails.” September 27: Abby Newell, … Continue reading →

January 25: Alanna Gillis, “Provisional Major Identities, Self-Concept, and Social Ties: The Social Process of Choosing a College Major.” February 6 (Wednesday): Phil Gorski, Yale, “American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy After Trump.” February 15: Nicholas Membrez-Weiler, Laura Bray, and Tom … Continue reading →