On the Run: Coming of Age under Mass Imprisonment

Joint seminar Maxpo – OSC-Sciences Po : SCOOPS

 

 

Alice GOFFMAN, University of Wisconsin
Discussant: Nonna MAYER, CEE-Sciences Po

Alice GOFFMAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the niversity of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an urban sociologist who grew up in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was an ethnographic account of the heavily policed ghetto that emerged as the US continues a War on Drugs and imprisons poor black men on a massive scale, and received the 2011 Best Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. With Mitchell Duneier, she recently completed a history and sociology of the ghetto from early modern Europe to the present.
Read her full CV http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/CVs/CV%20Nov%202012.pdf

Nonna MAYER is CNRS Research Director at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences Po (CEE). An expert in electoral sociology, she has published on the extreme right, racism, anti-Semitism and political participation. She is President of the French Political Science Association (AFSP) since 2005 and edits the series “Contester” (Protest), at the Presses de Sciences Po devoted to the transformations of the collective action repertoires.

Read her full CV: http://www.cee.sciences-po.fr/en/le-centre/research-team/60-nonna-mayer.html

Please make sure to register before May 10th with Marina Abelskaïa-Graziani at marina.abelskaiagraziani@sciences-po.fr