Seminar Series

CPRC Seminars

Fall 2009

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All seminars occur on Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:30 pm    
Room 1109, School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd Street
RSVP required to cprc@columbia.edu


*September 17  

Richard Alba, “The New Chance for a More Integrated America”
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, City University of New York

September 24

Sara McLanahan, “Fragile Families: The First Five Years”
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University                          

*October 1

Thomas DiPrete, "Social/Behavioral Skills and the Gender Gap in Early Educational Achievement"
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

*October 15

Melissa J. Marschall, "Immigrant Parent Involvement in American Schools"
Associate Professor of Political Science, Rice University   

October 29

Claude Fischer, “The Rising and Falling of Americans’ Personal Security, 1650-2009”
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

*November 12

Michel Guillot, TBN
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

*December 10

Maurice Crul, “Different national school systems, different opportunities!: School careers of children of immigrants in seven European countries”
Researcher, The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam  

*Available via videoconference at the Department of Sociomedical Sciences.

Room 555,  Allan Rosenfield Building, 722 West 168th Street