Our next seminar, "The Making of a Migrant Public Sphere: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the Midwest," will be by Dr. Juan Ignacio Mora (History, Indiana University – Bloomington). It is sponsored by the Latin American & Latinx Studies Program on Thursday, October 13th (4-5 PM, Sr. Jean Room North).
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Webinar about College Female's Friendships during Covid
In "Undergraduate Women Forging Friendships during the Pre-Vaccine Pandemic," Wade will discuss her research on student social life in the 2020/21 academic year at Tulane. The talk will highlight a series of stories that illustrate how women made friends in the midst of COVID-19 and how the need for friendship influenced their pandemic-related decision-making.
If your students would like to attend live, please be sure they register using this link. The talk will take place on Thursday, October 13 at 12PM CST and we will leave time for questions at the end. If you cannot attend live, a recording will be made available. I look forward to seeing you there.Loyola Sociology Alum Reuben Miller Keynote at 2022 New Student Convocation
...those who leave incarceration are in many ways never truly free. They instead become members of the "supervised society" — and it is this uniquely disenfranchised population that is the focus of his book.
This indictment of the criminal justice system should trouble the soul of the nation. Miller writes in prose that is at once powerful and engaging — and combines an abundance of data with the lived experiences of the people the numbers represent. A sociologist, criminologist, social worker, and former chaplain at Chicago's Cook County Jail, his insights are partly drawn from having spent 15 years interviewing nearly 250 people caught up in the prison industrial complex. This work included a research project during which he spent three years engaging with 60 men and 30 women after their release from incarceration in Michigan. Miller can also claim far more experiential expertise, because he was "born black and poor in the age of mass incarceration" and, like every Black person he knows, "was stopped by the police a number of times." He is a scientist armed with statistical information, and he is the son and brother of incarcerated men.
In October of 2022, Dr. Miller was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellow Genius Award! Here is an article in the Chicago Sun Times profiling him.
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