Comparative Research Workshop
Fall 2009

September 8
Ben Herzog  (Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, Dartmouth College)
"Comparative-Historical Analysis of Expatriation"

September 15
Alison Gerber   (Sociology Department, Yale)
"Sketching a New Profession"

September 22
Cherie Woodworth (Affiliate and Researcher, Center for Comparative Research, Yale)
"Poland-Llithuania before 1700 and the Origins of the Ashkenazi Jews: A Still-Unsolved Multi-Disciplinary Puzzle in Linguistics, Demography, Genetics, Archeology, Philology, and History"

September 29
Waverly Duck (Postdoctoral Associate, Sociology Department, Yale)
The Orderliness of Urban "Disorder": Drug Dealing "Careers" and the Local Interaction Order of a Place

October 6
Zi Pan   (Sociology Department, Yale)
"The developmental consequence of Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in China: A Case Study in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong Provinces"

October 13
Saglar Bougdaeva (Sociology Department, Yale)
"When the Walls Fall: Ethnicity, Mortality, and Social Change in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia"

October 20
Jeff Manza  (Professor, Sociology, NYU)
Rethinking Public Opinion: A Manifesto for Political Sociology

October 27
Peter Stamatov (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Yale)
Caribbean Beginnings, 1511-1520

November 3
TBA

November 10
Adria Lawrence (Assistant Professor, Political Science, Yale)
Nationalist Mobilization in the French Colonial Empire

November 17
 Rodney Benson (Associate Professor, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Sociology,  New York University)
Does Field Theory help explain Omnibus Media cultural production? A Comparison of French and U.S. Television News Framing of Immigration

December 1
Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UC-Berkeley)
"The Impartial Spectator as a Framework for Colonial Rule"

December 8 Reading period, no classes