Cutting edge research on race/ethnicity and public policy
In collaboration with the UIC Office of Diversity, the Race/Ethnicity Workshop is an interdisciplinary monthly event featuring new and in-progress cutting edge research on race/ethnicity and public policy. The workshop brings together faculty and advanced graduate students with specializations in race/ethnicity and public policy from UIC and other area universities. For more information, please contact us at irrpp@uic.edu.
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Workshop Speakers
2021 - 2022 Speakers
September 24, 2021
Aisha Griffith
Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
October 22, 2021
Michael Jin
Global Asian Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago
November 19, 2021
Andy Clarno and Policing in Chicago Research Group
Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
December 3, 2021
“Assessing the Spillover Effect of Local Immigrant Detention on Latinx Arrests”
Ashley Muchow
Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago
January 28, 2022
“From Anti-Affirmative Action Movements to #StopAAPIHate: Research on Asian Americans in the Broader Racial Landscape”
Janelle Wong
American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Maryland
February 18, 2022
“Fit to Rule: The Rise of U.S. Empire and the Racial Management of Filipinos”
Katrina Quisumbing King
Sociology, Northwestern University
March 11, 2022
“Grounds for Play: Race, Gender and the Limits to Leisure in Lawrence, MA’s Public Parks”
Teresa Gonzales
Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
April 8, 2022
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America”
Jennifer Cobbina-Dungy
School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
2020 - 2021 Speakers
September 25, 2020
Alexandra Filindra
Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
October 16, 2020
Aaron Gottlieb
Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
November 6, 2020
Erica Turner
Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 4, 2020
Doug Kiel
History, Northwestern University
February 26, 2021
Liat Ben-Moshe
Criminology, Law, and Justice & Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
March 19, 2021
Merida Rua
Latina and Latino Studies, Northwestern University
April 23, 2021
Sherene Seikaly,
History, University of California-Santa Barbara
2019 - 2020 Workshop Speakers
September 27, 2019
Julie Lee Merseth
Political Science, Northwestern University
October 11, 2019
Louise Seamster
African American Studies & Sociology, University of Iowa
December 6, 2019
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Sociology, University of California – Berkeley
January 31, 2020
Adam Goodman
Latin American and Latino Studies & History, University of Illinois at Chicago
February 21, 2020
Rahim Kurwa
Criminology, Law, and Justice & Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
March and April Race / Ethnicity Workshops were cancelled due to the Coronavirus Pandemic
2018 - 2019 Workshop Speakers
September 21, 2018
Jamillah Bowman Williams
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
October 26, 2018
Lorena Garcia
Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
November 30, 2018
Monica McDermott
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 25, 2019
Destin Jenkins
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University
February 22, 2019
Fred Lee
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian/Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
March 15, 2019
Elizabeth Todd-Breland
Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
April 19, 2019
Robert Vargas
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Violence, Law and Politics Lab, University of Chicago
2017 - 2018 Workshop Speakers
September 15, 2017
Thomas Guglielmo
Associate Professor of American Studies, The George Washington University
October 20, 2017
Nitasha Tamar Sharma
Associate Professor of African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Performance Studies, Northwestern University
November 17, 2017
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
Professor, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University
February 16, 2018
Destiny Peery
Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
March 2, 2018
Marcus Casey
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
April 20, 2018
Michael Leo Owens
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University
2016 - 2017 Workshop Speakers
September 23, 2016
Courtney Bonam
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of California-Santa Cruz
October 7, 2016
Derrick Darby
Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
November 4, 2016
Jane Junn
Professor of Political Science, University of Southern California
December 9, 2016
Junaid Rana
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 17, 2017
Patrisia Macias-Rojas
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
March 17, 2017
Ellis Monk
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
April 14, 2017
Reuben J. Miller
Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
