Workshop Schedule

12/12/25: Cameron Campbell (Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Distinguished Professor, School of History and Culture, Central China Normal University)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

12/05/25: Kerice Doten-Snitker (Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

11/28/25: Enjoy your Thanksgiving recess! 

11/21/25: 2025 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, Illinois. Nov 20-23.

11/14/25: A.K.M. Skarpelis (Assistant Professor, Richard Lachmann Chair of Sociology, Queens College in the City University of New York)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

11/07/25: Craig Calhoun (University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/31/25: Wisconsin CHS PhD Conference

[Professional Training Session][SSHA Practice]

Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/24/25: Paul Lichterman (Professor of Sociology and Religion, University of South California)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/17/25: Katrina Quisumbing King (Assistant of Sociology, Northwestern University)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/10/25: Julian Go (Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/03/25: Jen Triplett (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/26/25: Krishan Kumar (University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/19/25: Daniel A. McFarland (Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/12/25: Melissa J. Wilde (Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/05/25: Yang Zhang (Associate Professor, Department of Global Inquiry, School of International Service, American University)

[Book/Paper] TBD.

Time: 2:15 - 4:30 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

05/02/25: Aliza Luft (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

[Book Chapter] Between God and Vichy: Religion, Race, and the Holocaust in France.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/25/25: Guang Guo (Dr. George and Alice Welsh Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

[Paper] A Woman-Centered Biosocial Interactive Theory of Historic Fertility Declines.

Joint workshop with the Demography Seminar (DemSem) at the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA).

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/18/25: Jonah Stuart Brundage (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan)

[Book Chapter] A Social Theory of Diplomacy and Empire.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/11/25: Monica Prasad (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economic and Political Sociology, Johns Hopkins University)

[Book Chapter] Solving the Crisis of Global Capitalism.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/04/25: Anthony S. Chen (Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University)

[Book Chapter] Puzzling through SFFA: The Roberts Court and the Backstopping of Minority Rule.

Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM (CST).

Location: 8146 Sewell Social Science Building.

Visit Day - Welcome New Students!

03/28/24: Enjoy your spring recess! 

03/21/25: Sarah Babb (Professor of Sociology, Boston College)

[Book Chapter] The Reagan Revolution and the IMF.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

03/14/25: Heather A. Haveman (Professor of Sociology and Business, University of California, Berkeley)

[Book Chapter] Organizations and Evolving Conceptions of Gender: The Washington Post, 1977-2023.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

03/07/25: Ana Velitchkova (Assistant Professor of Sociology & International Studies, University of Mississippi)

[Paper] Somatic Pathways to Violence in the United States: The State, the Private Sphere, and the Community as Violent Socialization Institutions.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/28/25: Cybelle Fox (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)

[Book Chapter] Unauthorized Welfare: The Rise of Legal Status Restrictions in American Welfare Policy, 1935-1994.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/21/25: Damon Mayrl (Associate Professor of Sociology, Colby College)

[Paper] A Farewell to Public Religion? Retheorizing and Assessing the Public Relevance of Religion.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/14/25: Marko Grdešić (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Zagreb)

[Paper] Historical Monuments and Political Conflict: A Spatial Approach to World War II Monuments in Croatia.

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/07/25: Elisabeth S. Clemens (William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and the College, University of Chicago)

[Paper] State Repression as Structural Fold:  The Encounter of Pacifism and Civil Rights During the Second World War.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

01/31/25: Ann Shola Orloff (Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University)

[Book Chapter] Understanding Policy Changes as Processes of Destruction and Construction: Gendered Labor Policies in the US and Sweden, 1960s-2020.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

01/24/25: Iddo Tavory (Professor of Sociology, New York University)

[Book Chapter] The Situation: A Cultural-Interactionist Theory.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

12/06/24: Stephen Vaisey (Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Duke University)

[Paper] Advancing Theories and Methods for Understanding Cultural Change.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

11/29/24: Enjoy your Thanksgiving recess! 

11/22/24: Josh Pacewicz (Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University)

[Paper/Book] Architects of the Divided States: Doing Federalism in Red and Blue America.

Joint workshop with the Wisconsin Collective for Ethnographic Research (WISCER) - Qual Methods workshop.

Time: 10:10 AM - 11:55 AM (CST).

Location: 8108 Sewell Social Science Building.

11/15/24: Gershon Shafir (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego)

[Paper] Privilege versus Right: Vigilantism against Israel’s Palestinian Citizens.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

11/08/24: Tessa Huttenlocher (Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)

[Paper] The Disaffiliation of American Religious Colleges and Universities, 1895-1923.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

11/01/24: 2024 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Toronto ON, Canada. Oct 31 - Nov 3.

10/29/24: Letian Zhang (Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School)

[Paper] Sacred Barriers: The Impact of Religion on Scientific Careers.

Joint workshop with the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies.

Time: 12:15 - 1:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/25/24: Kevan Harris (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

[Paper] Linguistic Homogenization Contra Ethnic Self-identification: New Evidence From the Iran Social Survey.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/18/24: Adam Slez (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)

[Paper] [Methods Training] [Professional Training] Situating Politics: Spatial Heterogeneity and the Study of Political History.

Joint workshop with the Community and Environmental Sociology Colloquium.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST)

Location: ZOOM.

10/11/24: Julia Potter Adams (Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology, Yale University)

[Paper] Wikipedia, ‘Wissenschaft’, and Mechanisms of Social Exclusion/Inclusion.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

10/04/24: Volha Charnysh (Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

[Paper] The Consequences of the Black Sea Slave Trade: Long-Run Development in Eastern Europe.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/27/24: Cedric de Leon (Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

[Paper] Big Organizations, Long Struggles, and State Secrets: Towards a Du Boisian Historical Sociology of Labor.

Joint workshop with the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice.

Discussant: Chad Alan Goldberg (Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/20/24: Nina Bandelj (Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine)

[Book] How We Turned Children Into Investments.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/13/24: Charles Kurzman (Philip Stadter Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

[Paper] Citizenship Discrimination and the Transformation of Global Inequality.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

09/06/24: Yingyao Wang (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)

[Book] Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State. NY: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST)

Location: ZOOM.

05/03/24: Colin J. Beck (Professor of Sociology, Pomona College)

[Paper] Streets and Elites: Corruption Grievances in Contemporary Revolutions.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/26/24: Jonathan Wyrtzen (Associate Professor of Sociology, History, and International Affairs, Yale University)

[Paper] Tocqueville and Beaumont in America and Algeria: Indigeneity, Slavery, and Settlement at the Boundaries of Mid-19th U.S. and French Imperial Expansion.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/19/24: Naomi Lamoreaux (Senior Research Scholar, University of Michigan Law School; Stanley B. Resor Professor Emeritus of Economics and History, Yale University)

[Paper] Democracy, Capitalism, and Equality: The Importance of Impersonal Rules.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/12/24: Martin Ruef (Jack and Pamela Egan Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Sociology, Duke University)

[Paper] (Jack)Boots on the Ground: Fascism and Sociological Theory.

Discussant: Ivan Ermakoff (Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

04/05/24: Anne E.C. McCants (Ann F. Friedlaender Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

[Book Chapter] [Methods Training] Institutions in Economic History and the New Economic Sociology: Bridging the Gap.

Student discussant: Katrina Wang

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

03/29/24: Enjoy your spring recess! 

03/22/24: Charles C. Ragin (Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Irvine)

[Book] [Methods Training] Analytic Induction for Social Research. California: University of California Press, 2023.

Student discussants: Molly Clark-Barol and Siying Fu

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

03/15/24: Visit Day - Welcome New Students

[Open House] What is WHAT?

Time: 1:45 - 2:30 PM (CST).

Location: 8411 and 8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building.

03/08/24: Bruce Greenhow Carruthers (John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University)

[Book] The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.

Joint workshop with Economic Sociology and Comparative Political Economy Workshop and the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice.

Faculty discussants: Robert Freeland (Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Max Besbris (Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Student discussants: Walker Kahn and Katrina Wang

Time: 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM (CST).

Location: Computer Sciences and Statistics 1221.

03/01/24: Tristan Ivory (Assistant Professor, Department of International and Comparative Labor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University)

[Paper] Does A Rising Tide Matter Without Star Charts?: Educational Inequality and the Transition to Adulthood in Ghana.

Joint workshop with the Sociology of Economic Change and Development Training Seminar (SECD).

Discussant: Gay W. Seidman (Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/23/24: Rebecca Jean Emigh (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)

[Paper] [Methods Training Session] The Economics, Institutions, Relations, and Meanings of Monetary Transactions (with Rennie Lee).

Discussant: Fabien Accominotti (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/16/24: Robert D. Woodberry (Senior Research Professor, Baylor University)

[Paper] The Religious Roots of Printing Revolutions.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/09/24: Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Associate Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University)

[Paper] Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations: Structures of Coherence in a Fragmented Discipline (with Damon Mayrl).

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

02/02/24: Emily Erikson (Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, School of Management, Yale University)

[Book] Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

01/26/24: Pamela E. Oliver (Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

[Professional Training] Developing Workshop Cultures.

Time: 2:15 - 3:45 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

12/08/23: Simon F. Deakin (Professor of Law, Faculty of Law and Center for Business Research, University of Cambridge)

[Paper] Anthropogenic Labour Law: The Coevolution of Law and Work.

Discussant: Joseph A. Conti (Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time: 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.

12/01/23: Isaac Ariail Reed (Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought and Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)

[Paper] The Three Oaths of Ernst Kantorowicz.

Discussant: Chad Alan Goldberg (Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Time: 12:30 - 1:30 PM (CST).

Location: ZOOM.