UMN Sociology Workshop Series
UMN Sociology Workshop Series
The UMN Sociology Workshop Series provides a forum for faculty and students to present work and work in progress across a wide range of substantive areas, theoretical perspectives, and research methodologies.
Our Spring 2026 workshop series will be held on Mondays from 2:30 to 3:30 PM (CDT) in 1114 Social Sciences and on Zoom unless otherwise noted. All virtual attendees are required to register. A copy of our Spring 2026 schedule will be available closer to semester start.
Questions about our workshop series should be directed to Katie Gunderson at [email protected].
Professor Karen Ho (UMN Anthropology) will present "Financialization, a Failing Social Economy, and Trumpism: The Hauntings of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Bailout” on February 9, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Professor Josh Page (UMN Sociology) and Professor Joe Soss (UMN School of Public Affairs) will be presenting "Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice" on February 16, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Professors Penny Edgell, Doug Hartmann, and Joe Gerteis (UMN Sociology) and AMP Graduate Students will present "Faculty-Student Panel--Early Headlines from the American Mosaic Project, Wave 3" on March 2, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Researcher Nicole Bedera (University of Michigan) will present "Setting the Record Straight on Campus Sexual Violence" on March 16, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Professor Omar Lizardo (University of California, Los Angeles) will be presenting "Taste and Its Categories: How Categories Mediate Taste Across Educational Attainment Levels" on Monday, March 30, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Associate Professor Andrew Fenelon (UMN Epich) will be presenting "The Long-Run Effects of Early-Life Exposure to the US Public Housing Program" on April 6, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Assistant Professor Ed Cornelius (UMN Sociology) will be presenting "From the Fight Against Corruption to a War on Street Crime: Discursive Elasticity and Field Inertia in Brazilian Criminal Law." on April 20, 2026. Zoom registration link.
Recordings of the Fall 2025 workshop series are available to view on the following playlist, titled, "Fall 2025: SOC Workshop Recordings."