ASA Sociology of Education Online Mini-Conference

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The sociology of education has long focused on the documentation of educational inequities, with less attention to how we might use our research to produce change. The field has also developed concepts and approaches that may re-inscribe the very disparities we purport to analyze. This online mini conference is devoted to the concept of repair. How do we as a disciplinary subfield revisit, acknowledge, and move beyond initial limiting concepts or methodologies in the study of educational inequality? What might reparations and restorative justice look like in a re-envisioned sociology of education oriented toward repair across multiple axes of oppression? To answer these questions, we must look not only within our own discipline, but to scholars at the cutting-edge of reparative work in other fields.

The schedule for the mini-conference is as follows:

9-9:15: Welcome and Word from Our Sponsor, The William T. Grant Foundation President Adam Gamoran

9:15-10:45: Panel 1: “Revisiting our Foundational Concepts and Methods”

a. Dr. Tyson Brown, W.L.F. Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University: on quantcrit methods and measuring structural racism

b. Dr. Jordan Conwell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin: on a Du Boisian Sociology of Education

c. Dr. Michela Musto, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University: on movement from mono-categorical “chilly climate” to intersectional taking up of space in educational places

d. Dr. Amanda Tachine, Assistant Professor of Higher Education & Postsecondary Education, MLF Teachers College Arizona State University: on qualitative indigenous research methodologies

e. Dr. Derron Wallace, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, Brandeis University: on interventions in cultural capital literature

5 min bio break

10:50-11:35: Idea Incubators: Details coming soon. Sign up required.

5 min bio break

11:40-12:40: Keynote (lunch hour for attendees) by Dr. Jarvis Givens, Professor of Education and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University: on fugitive pedagogy

5 min bio break

12:45- 2:15: Panel 2: “Re-envisioning Our Role in Reducing Inequality”

a. Dr. Laura Enriquez, Associate Professor Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California-Irvine: on supporting undocumented communities on and off campuses.

b. Dr. Dania Francis, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Boston: on the economics of reparations policies

c. Dr. Liliana Garces, W.K. Professor of Community College Leadership and Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership, University of Texas-Austin: on socio-legal work regarding race-conscious policies in education

d. Dr. Katherine Michelmore, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford Public Policy School: on increasing access for low-income students and the Earned Income Tax Credit

e. Dr. Joel Mittleman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame: on exploding gender categories and re-conceptualizing gender in research and policy

2:15-2:30: Closing

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