FALL 2025
Friday, November 14: Rachel Springer, research presentation: “Toward Disaster Justice: Centering Disability in Disaster Response Planning”
Times: TBD
CH 371
WINTER 2026
Friday, January 9: Hannah Sean Ellefritz: “TBD”
Friday, January 23: 11:30-12:30: Yan Long, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, “Title: Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China”
Friday, February 13: Marianne Bylander, PhD “TBD”
Friday, February 27: Dani Standridge presentation/workshop: “Working as a federal policy and program analyst”
Friday, March 13: Cheyenne Foster, PhD: “Invisible Violence: Understanding Power and Control through a Therapeutic Lens”
SPRING 2026
Friday, April 10: Sam Kendrick, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee. “Love in the Time of COVID: The Pandemic’s Unsettling of Gendered Dating” (all grads, pizza included)
Friday May 1 from 12:40-1:30: Community Hour for Sociology Faculty and Grads. Fully remote (sociology faculty and grad students will find the link in the calendar invite)
Spring 2026 Dissertations Proposals/Defenses & Thesis Defenses
Clover Javurik-Humig, Title:
A Qualitative Study Into the Impact of Sweeps on Homeless-Serving Mutual Aid Groups in Portland, OR
Committee Members:
Dr. Melissa Thompson (Chair)
Dr. Aaron Roussell
Matt Chorpenning (School of Social Work)
Details:
04/21/2026 (Tuesday of Week 4)
3:15pm-5:00pm