Effects of National Family Policies and Earnings Inequality on Mothers’ Employment in 23 Countries, 1999–2016 Jennifer Hook Associate Professor of Sociology University of Southern California, Dornsife

Dr. Rebecca Tarlau, Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University, will be giving a talk about her exciting new book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Lands: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press, 2019) on Jan. 23rd, from 12-1:30pm in Room 41. This talk may be of particular interest to faculty and students interested in social movements, education, Latin America, and ethnography.  See below for a summary of her talk:   Over the past 35 years the Brazilian Landless…

The Affordable Care Act and Women's Marital Transitions Virginia Chang Associate Professor of Global Public Health, Population Health, and Sociology New York University

Dr. Sinikka Elliott Canada doesn’t have a national school food program, making it an anomaly among comparable wealthy nations. With growing calls for the federal government to move toward establishing a national school food program, many questions remain about how school food programs are experienced and used by students and families themselves. Sinikka Elliott will draw on a school lunch research project she conducted with an interdisciplinary team in three schools in a suburban school district. The project documented students’…