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 2023 workshop series will be held in 1114 Social Sciences and broadcast via ZOOM on Mondays from 2:30 to 3:30 PM (CDT). All attendees are required to register.
If you have questions about our workshop series, please contact Communications Coordinator Elizabeth Cronin at ecronin@umn.edu.
Spring 2023 Schedule

Experiences and Impacts of Child Removal in Native Communities
Presented by The Child Removal Study Team:
- Samuel Torres (Mexica/Nahua), Deputy Chief Executive Officer of The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)
- Sandy White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), The First Nations Repatriation Institute (FNRI) Director & NABS Former Board President
- Sara Axtell, Lecturer in Family Social Sciences, University of Minnesota (UMN)
- Carolyn Liebler, Associate Professor in Sociology, UMN; & FNRI Board Secretary
- Maggie Greenleaf (Red Lake Ojibwe), Recent UMN Graduate
- Chris Mann, Recent UMN Graduate

Queering Authoritarianism: The Politics of Rights in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Cops in T-Shirts? The Possibilities and Contradictions of Alternative Models of Safety in Minneapolis
Michelle Phelps, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Title TBA.
Dwanna McKay, Colorado College
Associate Professor; Race, Ethnicity, & Migration Studies

Title TBA.
Danielle K. Brown, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Assistant Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication