Speakers
Jafari S. Allen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of ¡Venceremos?: Sexuality, Gender and Black Self-Making in Cuba, forthcoming in Fall 2009. http://www.yale.edu/anthro/people/jallen.html
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. He is the author of A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community, for which he received the Robert E. Park Award for the best book in the area of Urban Sociology; and Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, winner of the Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society. He received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and he has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University, Swarthmore College, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. Professor Anderson has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and is past vice president of the American Sociological Association. He is director of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project.
http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/anderson/
Linda Burton is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University. Her work focuses on intergenerational family structures, the accelerated life course of children, and the meaning of place and context in the daily life of poor families living in the United States. She is the author of Intergenerational Issues in Aging.
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/burtonDonald Braman is Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. He is the author of Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America.
http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/Profile.aspx?id=10123
Judith Casselberry is an Inaugural Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies. Her dissertation, ‘Blessed Assurance’: Belief and Power Among African American Apostolic Women, examines the workings of spiritual authority within a New York based Holiness-Pentecostal denomination and the extent to which it enables a particular form of female power. As a vocalist/guitarist, she performs nationally and internationally with Toshi Reagon and BigLovely.
Mitchell Duneier is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. As an ethnographer he is committed to work that reveals “both the common and distinctive elements of humanity.” He is the author of Slim’s Table and Sidewalk.
http://sociology.princeton.edu/Faculty/Duneier/Joanne Goldblum is the founder and president of the Diaper Bank which distributes free diapers to needy families through a network of social service agencies, churches and educational institutions in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport. She was a clinical faculty member at Yale Child Study Center Family Support Service from 1998-2005. She was chosen as a 2007 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader for her work. She was also named 2007 New Haven Register Person of the Year. Joanne has served as Co-Chair of the Connecticut Parents with Cognitive Limitations Workgroup for the past 6 years. She is a board member at Edith B. Jackson Childcare Center, Lulac Head Start and the Foote School. She serves on New Haven's Early Childhood Council and New Haven's Homeless Commission. http://www.thediaperbank.org/
Susan Greenbaum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her work focuses on community development, urban ethnicity, and social networks. She is the author of More than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa.http://anthropology.usf.edu/faculty/personal/greenbaum.html
Melissa Fay Greene is an award-winning journalist and author in Atlanta, GA. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Salon. The National Book Foundation noted that she combines "the historian's urge for accuracy with a sociologist's sense of social nuance and a writerly passion for the beauty of language." Her books include Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing—both finalists for the National Book Award—Last Man Out, and There Is No Me Without You: One's Woman Odyssey to Rescue her Country's Children. www.thereisnomewithoutyou.com
John L. Jackson, Jr. is the Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His interests include ethnographic methods in media analysis, critical race theory, and the study of religious/ethnic/racial diasporas. He is the author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America and Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity. He is currently working on his fourth book, Black Judah and the Twelve Tribes of
Transnationalism. http://www.asc.upenn.edu/ascfaculty/FacultyBio.aspx?id=156
Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and History at Yale. He is the author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in PostCivil Rights America (2006); Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 18761917 (2000); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998); and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (1995). He is currently at work on Odetta's Voice and Other Weapons: The Civil Rights Era as Cultural History. http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/jacobson.html
Myra Jones-Taylor is a PhD candidate in American studies and anthropology at Yale University and a Fellow of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy. Her dissertation, "Blank Slates: Childcare in the Age of Neoliberal Social and Education Policy," is an ethnography of the effects of welfare reform and No Child Left Behind on New Haven's childcare community.
Wende Marshall is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her current research focuses on food, poverty and health in the rural and urban South and involves ethnographic study of the local impact of private control of sustenance on a global scale. Her book, Potent Mana: Hawaiian Lessons in Power and Healing (SUNY Press), is forthcoming. http://oscar.virginia.edu/asp/PeopleView.asp?txtPersonID=9724
Kica Matos is Community Services Administrator for the City of New Haven. In this capacity, she oversees a number of departments and policy initiatives, including Public Health, Youth, Immigration Integration, Prisoner Re-entry, Elderly Services, Substance Abuse and Prevention, SAGA Support Services and services to the homeless. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of JUNTA for Progressive Action, New Haven’s oldest Latino community-based organization. Matos spent her early career as a community organizer and human rights advocate, working for such institutions as the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Amnesty International. She is the recipient of the 2005 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, given annually to two Americans under the age of 40 for their commitment to public service.
Jennifer McTiernan is the founding Executive Director of CitySeed, a community-based non-profit organization with a mission to increase access to local, healthy food and promote farm viability. She is a board member of both the CT Farmland Trust and the Yale Native American Cultural Center Advisory Board, and a member of the Working Lands Alliance Steering Committee. She was named the New Haven Register's 2006 "Person of the Year," as well as honored in 2007 with an Elm-Ivy Award from Yale and the City of New Haven. http://www.cityseed.org/
Sandra Morgen is Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Her research has long focused on how gender, race, and class intersect in social activism and in the implementation and consequences of public policy, most recently in the process of welfare restructuring. She is the author of Women and the Politics of Empowerment, Taxes are a Woman's Issue, and Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990. A forthcoming book on her research on welfare is due out late in 2009.
Katherine Newman is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. She is the author of No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. She also has two forthcoming books, Brothers’ Keepers? The Limits of Social Solidarity from The New Deal to the Age of Inequality and Failure to Launch: The Consequences of Delayed Departure from the Family Home in Western Europe, Japan and the United States.
http://sociology.princeton.edu/Faculty/Newman/
LaShawnDa L. Pittman is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at Northwestern University and a dissertation fellow at Hiram College. Her dissertation “Standing in the Gap: African American Caretaking Grandmothers” uses in-depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork to investigate custodial grandmothers’ caretaking experiences.
Deirdre A. Royster is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her first book, Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue Collar Jobs, was a finalist for the 2004 C. Wright Mills Best Book Award and received the 2004 Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award. http://www.nyu.edu/provost/faculty/as.royster.html
Jessica Sager is the co-founder and executive director of All Our Kin, Inc., a nationally-recognized, New Haven-based nonprofit organization that trains, supports, and sustains community child care providers. All Our Kin's work has been recognized by, among others, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, Connecticut Voices for Children, and the federal Administration for Youth and Families. Sager is active in a number of private, local, and state initiatives to improve the quality of early childhood education. She is the recipient of the Mary McCarthy and Liman Public Interest Fellowships. She founded All Our Kin with Janna Wagner in the fall of 1999. http://www.allourkin.org/whoweare.php
Alethea Murray Sargent is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the American Studies Program at Yale University. Her dissertation examines the experiences of older women living in the shelter system in Boston, Massachusetts, focusing on the tactics they employ to assert control over the self in the face of institutional regulations, troubled kin relations, assaults against the body and the passage of time. She begins law school at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is the Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on violence, genocide and social suffering; critical theory applied to the body; globalization of medicine and biomedical technologies; public anthropology; and motherhood and childhood. She is the author of Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, and Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology, which she co-edited with Philippe Bourgois. http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/nsh.html
Mario Small is Associate Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. Small’s research has focused on neighborhood poverty, social capital, inequality and culture, and case study methods. His recent book, Villa Victoria (2004, U Chicago), which examines isolation and participation in a Boston housing complex inhabited primarily by Puerto Rican migrants, received numerous honors, including the C. Wright Mills Award and the Robert E. Park Award. His upcoming book, Unanticipated Gains (In press, Oxford), examines why the networks of many New York City mothers unexpectedly increased in size and usefulness after enrolling their children in childcare centers. His papers have been published in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Theory and Society, Social Science Research, and Ethnography. http://home.uchicago.edu/~mariosmall
Sandra Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on joblessness, urban poverty, social networks and social capital, race and ethnicity, and trust. She is the author of Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor. Smith is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/smith/
