Past SRI Speakers and Themes

"Holding Corporations Politically Accountable: A Social Movement Perspective”

Edward Walker, Professor of Sociology & Vice Chair, University of California Los-Angeles
2021 SRI Program

"Rebuilding the Sociologist from the Ground Up: Why Sociologists Need a New Habitus, a New Praxis, and New Identity"

Fabio Rojas, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University Bloomington
2019 SRI Program

“Policing Brown Bodies Using Immigration Law Enforcement"

Mary Romero, Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
2018 SRI Program

“Someone To Talk To: Perception v. Reality in How People Seek Support"

Mario Small, Grafstein Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
2017 SRI Program

“W.E.B. Du Bois: From Science and Curricula to Political Activism"

Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
2016 SRI Program

“'Innocent, Innocent, Not Even Not Guilty' : The State-Sanctioned Violence of (white) Self-Defense"

Lisa Cacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2015 SRI Program

“Legal vs. Racial Exclusion: Understanding Undocumented Immigrants and Mass Incarceration"

Mary C. Waters and M.E. Zukerman, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
2014 SRI Program

“Violence at the Urban Margins"

Javier Auyero, Joe R. Long, and Teresa Lozano Long, Professor in Latin American Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
2013 SRI Program

“America's Death Penalty: A Problem for Sociological Explanation"

David Garland and Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University
2012 SRI Program

“Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress"

Annette Lareau, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
2011 SRI Program

“Punishment in America: It's About Race."

Michael Tonry, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Crime and Public Policy, University of Minnesota
2010 SRI Program