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Session 1: Constructing Identity

Ping Zhu, Comparative Literature (Rutgers)
The Flourishing Yin: "Modern Woman" in 1930s' China

Shelly Germana, Sociology (Rutgers)
Hyphenating and Hyphen-Hating: The Social Logic of the Hyphen and the Politics of Indeterminacy

Angela Rose Marino-Segura, Spanish & Performance Studies (NYU)
Domino Mar: A Study of the Game and Transitory Phenomena of Culture

Session 2: Social Construction

Asia Friedman, Sociology (Rutgers)
Socio-Optical Construction: Visual attention and the social construction of reality

Ashley Falzetti, Women’s and Gender Studies (Rutgers)        
Performativity and Social Kinds: Constructing Philosophical Notions of Race

Nichole Shippen, Political Science (Rutgers)
The Colonization of Time: From Production to Leisure

Howard Chiang, History of Science (Princeton)
Liberating Desire: Mapping Epistemological Turning Points in the History of Sexuality

Session 3A: Medical Politics

Dena Smith, Sociology (Rutgers)
From Meaning-Making to Medicalization: Consequences of a Psychiatric Paradigm Shift

Justin Snyder, Sociology (Virginia)
The Social Consequences of Traumatic Memory

Jennifer Hemler, Sociology (Rutgers)
From Deviance to Pathology: “Compulsive Buying Disorder” and the Protection of American Consumer Culture

Session 3B: Urban Spaces

Joseph Varga, Committee on Historical Studies & Sociology (New School)
When Hell Froze Over: Spatial Policing in Progressive Era NYC

Adam Steinberg, Geography (Rutgers)
A Better Lower East Side? Planning Paradigms and the Tenement Museum

Shruti Devgan, Sociology (Rutgers)
A Study of A Diaspora Space Sui Generis: The Case of Southall

Session 4A: Social Movements & Politics

Amy Lynn Buzby, Political Science (Rutgers)
Contradictions in Practice: An Instance of the Failure of European Socialism to Articulate a Coherent, Mobilizing Vision  

Michael Blum (Millersville)
The Effects of Student Radicalism on US Foreign Policy from 1969-1973

Louis Edgar Esparza, Sociology (Stony Brook)
NGO Inequalities: The Stratified Field of Human Rights Organizations in Bogotá, Columbia

Booker Magure, Political Science (Rhodes University, South Africa)
The state, labour and the politics of social dialogue in Zimbabwe 1996-2007: issues resolved or matters arising?

Jose Luis Fernandez, Philosophy (SUNY-Stony Brook)
A Foucauldian Sketch of the Politics of Fear

Session 4B: Body, Sex & Performance

Etienne Meunier, Sociology (Rutgers)
How Dangerous is Hazzard? The Risk of Authenticity in Gay Porn Performance

George Borum (SUNY-Albany)
Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy in the Black Community: Black Masculinity and Homophobia                                  

Session 5A: Discipline(s) & Careers

Kimberly Austin (Chicago)
Managing Uncertainty: Paid Service Programs as Institutional Supports in the School to Work Transition

Donna Bobcean (Eastern Michigan)
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Paradigm Shift

Jennifer Garcia, Community Health Sciences (UCLA)
Critical Race Theory and Public Affairs: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session 5B: Crossing Borders

Ana Hi Russo Garrido, Women’s & Gender Studies (Rutgers)
Chicana Feminism and Spirituality: A force of mobilization

Rebecca Malotke-Messlin (Eastern Michigan)
Women & Globalization: For Better or Worse

Sameena Khan (Sam Houston State) 
Ben Robertson (Sam Houston State)
Gap and Globalization

Debarati Sen, Anthropology (Rutgers)
"From Illegal to Organic"-An Accidental Journey of Women Farmers into the Fair Trade Movement

Session 6A: Space, Place & Representation

Dean Bond, Philosophy (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Excavating a Deleuzo-Guattarian Place Concept

Russell Cole, Sociology (SUNY-Albany)
American Radicalized Sociopolitical Movements in the Context of Informationalism and the Network Society

Amy Stuart, Sociology (New School)
Disembodied Publics: Talking About Race Online

Session 6B: Methods & Research

Marga Ryersbach (West Florida)
Stabbed in the Back: Betrayal and Knowledge

Alessandra Seggi, Sociology (New School)
Sociology of Film AND Sociology through Film

Neha Gondal, Sociology (Rutgers)
Tracing patterns in the Mnemonic Battle(s) regarding the Impact of the Feminization of the Labor Force in South Asia