July 1st, 2022 @ 12:00 PM Eastern: “On Being and Becoming a Historical Sociologist”
A CHAT panel discussion featuring: Veridiana Alimonti (Electronic Frontier Foundation); Gabriel Noah Brahm (Northern Michigan University); Louis Edgar Esparza (California State University-Los Angeles); Alwyn Lim (Singapore Management University); and AunRika Tucker-Shabazz (University of Michigan).
July 1st, 2022 @ 12:00 PM Eastern: “On Being and Becoming a Historical Sociologist”
A panel discussion featuring Maryam Alemzadeh, Tony Chen, Lis Clemens, Marisela Martinez-Cola, Chris Muller, and Angel Adams Parham.
March 25th, 2022 @ 1:30 PM Eastern: “Is It Too Late? Reflections on Democratic Backsliding”
A panel discussion featuring Marco Garrido (University of Chicago Sociology), Jared McBride (UCLA History), Liz McKenna (JHU/SNF Agora Institute) and Cihan Tugal (UC Berkeley Sociology).
January 14th, 2022 @ 1:30 PM Eastern: CHAT Flash Panel on the “Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism”
Katrina Quisumbing King (Northwestern) and Alexandre White (Johns Hopkins), discuss their co-edited recent special issue of Political Power and Social Theory on “The Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism.” They were joined by three authors of constituent articles in the special issue: Heidi Nicholls (UVA); Mishal Khan (UT Austin); and Luisa Schwartzman (Toronto).
October 22, 2021: “Global Black Girlhoods”
An online panel featuring new work on Black girlhoods around the world. Sadiyah Malcolm (University of Michigan) presented her work on Black girlhood and the transition to adulthood in Kingston, Jamaica. AunRika Tucker-Shabazz (University of Michigan) discussed the impact of misrecognition, censorship and silence in the lives of Black girls and women. Aria S. Halliday, PhD (University of Kentucky), editor of the Black Girlhood Studies Collection, gave comments
June 25, 2021: “Archival Work–A Discussion”
- Anna K. M. Skarpelis (Harvard) “How to Read an Image: Computer Vision and the Archive in Comparative Historical Sociology.”
- Sunmin Kim (Dartmouth) “Reading the World in a Teacup: Thoughts from Single-case Studies”
- Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Stony Brook) “The Archive as a Structure of Scholarly Coherence: Epistemic Instability and Interdisciplinary Crisis”
May 21 @ 2PM EDT: “Opportunities and Challenges in Historical Research Methods”
In this panel, we will hear from junior and senior colleagues, working across a diverse array of quantitative and qualitative methods and located across sociology, history and political science, about the intellectual and disciplinary challenges of doing historical research, in “normal” and COVID times.
The panel features:
- Rebecca Jean Emigh (Sociology) on comparative methods
- Anthony Chen (Sociology and Political Science) on archival research in historical sociology
- Cristina Groeger (History) on quantitative methods in history
- Jacob Habinek (Sociology) on computational methods for historical sociology
“Layered Racial Memory”
“Lieux de Souvenir: On Layered Racial Memory” with Angel Parham with discussant Anna Skarpelis.
Flash Panel: “Revolutions and Historical Social Science Research”
“Revolutions & Historical Social Science Research: A Conversation” was on March 26 at 11am EDT, and featured a panel including Colin Beck, Kristin Plys, Atef Said, and Xiaohong Xu. They shared insights from their work and new directions in scholarship on revolutions.
Flash Talk: “Power, Politics, and Populism” Isaac Reed and Adam Slez (University of Virginia)
Professors Isaac Ariail Reed and Adam Slez discussed their recent books, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies and The Making of the Populist Movement: State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier, in a flash talk focused on issues of power, politics, and populism. The discussant was Ioana Sendroiu (Harvard University).
FLASH TALK: “How College Degrees Divide America” Mitchell Stevens (Stanford)
Our first flash talk was held on January 28th, 2021. It featured Mitchell Stevens, from Stanford University, discussing “How College Degrees Divide America: Historical Legacies, Present Politics, Possible Futures.” The discussant was Sarah Quinn (University of Washington.)