Climate Change; Environmental Sociology; Global and Transnational Sociology; Postcolonialism; Knowledge and Expertise; Critical Development; Policy- and Decision-Making

Confronting Global Crisis or Business as Usual: Competing Frames in the Making of Climate Adaptation.

J. Timmons Roberts (chair), Nitsan Chorev, Patrick Heller, Dan Hirschman, Pinar Batur (Vassar College)

Empire and Colonialism; Global and Transnational Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Knowledge and Expertise; Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Cultural Sociology; 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

Sociologies of Race and Colonialism; Organizational Theory and Cultural Sociology; Du Boisian Sociology; Sociology of Eliteness, Faculty, and Meritocracy

Racializing Meritocracy: Ideas of Excellence and Exclusion in Faculty Diversity.

Jose Itzigsohn, Michael Kennedy, Daniel Hirschman, Laura López-Sanders

Stratification; Migration; Demography; Race/Ethnicity; Law and Society; Organizational Sociology

Employment Discrimination Against Immigrants.

Margot Jackson, Zhenchao Qian, Andrew Schrank, Laura Lopez-Sanders, Roberto Gonzales

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