Democracy in America: The History of our Time and Place
Monthly Graduate Workshops
Grace Kao, Sociology.
This series of noontime workshops gives students a chance to hear faculty members from across the disciplines present their own analysis of the state of democracy in contemporary America, and reflect upon how their particular disciplinary methods and outlooks have outfitted them to approach the current national and world situation. Discussion will also address the pedagogical challenges and responsibilities in the classroom at times of political stress or crisis. Presentation and open discussion; lunch will be served.
Grace Kao is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of Education Studies at Yale University. Formerly, she was Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught for 20 years. At Penn, she directed the Asian American Studies Program at Penn and served as Associate Chair of the Sociology Department. She is the Co-Editor (with Hyunjoon Park) of Research in the Sociology of Education. She has served on the Boards of the Population Association of American and the Association for Asian American Studies. For the American Sociological Association, she has served as Council member for the Sections of Asia/Asian America and Education, and she has served as Chair of the Section of Children and Youth, and served on ASA’s Nominations Committee. She has also served on the Editorial Boards of the American Sociological Review, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, and Social Problems.
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Generously funded by a 320 York Humanities Grant, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, Yale University.