Social Inequality; Poverty; Families; Organizations; Qualitative Methods

The Ecological Patterning and Effects of Child Care Markets

Josh Pacewicz (chair), Mark Suchman, and Margot Jackson

Education; Social Stratification; Race and Ethnicity; Urban Sociology; Organizations; Public Policy; Political Sociology

Global and Transnational Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Cultural Sociology and Sociology of Knowledge; Political Sociology; Empire and Colonialism; Social Theory; Historical and Ethnographic Methods

The Right to have Rights: Race-Making, Liberalism and the British West Indies

José Itzigsohn (chair), Michael Kennedy, Nitsan Chorev, Anthony Bogues, Julian Go

Political Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Sociology of Knowledge & Expertise; Comparative Historical Sociology; Qualitative Methods

Rightward in the Rustbelt: How Conservatives Remade the GOP, 1947-2012

Josh Pacewicz (Co-Chair), Nitsan Chorev (Co-Chair), José Itzigsohn, Cedric de Leon

Urban Sociology; Gentrification; Community Development and Nonprofits; Environment & Society; Social Movements; Qualitative and Historical Methods; Spatial Analysis

Historical Development and the Community Gardening Movements in Austin, TX and Boston, MA

Hilary Silver (Chair), Scott Frickel, Josh Pacewicz

Asian Americans; Social Construction of Knowledge; Race and Ethnicity; W.E.B. Du Bois; Du Boisian Sociology; Sociological Theories of Race; Quantitative Methods; Inequality; Housing

Environmental Sociology; Latin America; Fisheries; Sociology of Knowledge and Science; Social Movements

An upwelling of expertise: The collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery and the rise of grassroots science, 1973-2000.

Scott Frickel (Chair), Nitsan Chorev, Michael Kennedy, José Carlos Orihuela (Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)), David Hess (Vanderbilt University)