Working Groups
2024-2025
Conversation Analysis (Cheeks, Morris; Clayman)
Contact: lcheeks@g.ucla.edu, clayman@soc.ucla.edu, amandamorris@g.ucla.edu
Health (Kaufman, Timmermans)
Contact: rkaufmanr@g.ucla.edu, stefan@soc.ucla.edu
Family (Yang, Cowhey; Collett, Sweeney)
Contact: msweeney@soc.ucla.edu, collett@soc.ucla.edu, mcowhey@g.ucla.edu
International Migration (Tinoco; Waldinger)
Contact: waldinger@soc.ucla.edu, natinoco@ucla.edu
Political Sociology and the Global South (Rosenberg, Corbeil, Courville, Lee, Robbins, Sam)
Contact: joellerosenberg@g.ucla.edu, roxannecorbeil@g.ucla.edu , samrobbins97@g.ucla.edu
Computational and Mathematical Sociology (Ramakrishnan, Wilmot; Lundberg)
Contact: vivekr@ucla.edu, cwilmot@ucla.edu
Race and Ethnicity (Jun; Ortiz)
Contact: hannajun@ucla.edu, vilma@soc.ucla.edu
Culture (Shu, Ji, Zhou; Lizardo)
Contact: olizardo@soc.ucla.edu, mzhou@soc.ucla.edu, afshu@g.ucla.edu
Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility (Rouhani, Jeon; Brand)
Contact: brand@soc.ucla.edu, shivarouhani@ucla.edu, njeon@ucla.edu
Urban Sociology (Lutzker, Smock; Herring)
Contact: cherring@soc.ucla.edu, sal2176@ucla.edu, ksmock@ucla.edu
We hope you will take advantage of the scholarly communities and stimulating activities that these groups will offer over the coming year!
Purpose & Scope
The Graduate Student Working Groups are supported under the auspices of the Ross Lecture Series. Geared toward facilitating graduate student engagement of specific topics within their area of interest, the working groups support an intellectual program that provides training opportunities and collective activities. These activities include an ongoing seminar and at least one public lecture, delivered by a significant person in the relevant field, that is included in the menu of yearlong Ross lectures.
In the working groups, graduate students take the initiative by identifying themes and potential participants, and mobilizing interest among the faculty with whom they are associated. Faculty and graduate students work collaboratively in planning activities.
Related Information
Students interested in comparative historical methodologies may also want to consider the quarterly offerings of the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Sociology 237). For catalog description, click here. For talks sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar, please see the main events calendar.
Previous Working Groups
2023-2024
Political Sociology and the Global South
Computational and Mathematical Sociology
Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
Experimental Methods
2022-2023
Conversation Analysis
Culture Working Group
Family
Gender & Sexuality
International Migration
Political Sociology and the Global South
Quantitative and Computational Sociology
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
Health
Computational and Mathematical Sociology
Experimental Methods
Urban Sociology
2021-2022
Conversation Analysis
Family
Gender & Sexuality
International Migration
Movements, Organizations, and Markets
Political Sociology and the Global South
Quantitative and Computational Sociology
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
Theory Supper Club
Computational and Mathematical Sociology
Experimental Methods
2020-21
Conversation Analysis
Family
Gender & Sexuality
International Migration
Movements, Organizations, and Markets
Political Sociology and the Global South
Quantitative and Computational Sociology
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
Theory Supper Club
2019-2020
Computational Sociology
Conversation Analysis
Family
Gender & Sexuality
International Migration
Movements, Organizations, and Markets
Political Sociology and the Global South
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
Theory Supper Club
2018-2019
Computational Sociology
Conversation Analysis
Family
International Migration
Knowledge & Cognitive Systems
Movements, Organizations, & Markets
Political Sociology and the Global South
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender & Sexuality
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
2017-2018
Computational Sociology
Conversation Analysis
Family
International Migration
Knowledge & Cognitive Systems
Movements, Organizations, and Markets
Political Sociology and the Global South
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender & Sexuality
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
2016-2017
Computational Sociology
Conversation Analysis
Contentious Politics and Organizations
Ethnography
Family
International Migration
Knowledge & Cognitive Systems
Movements, Organizations, and Markets
Political Sociology and the Global South
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health
Social Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
2015-2016
Contentious Politics and Organizations
Conversation Analysis
Ethnography
Family
International Migration
Knowledge and Cognitive Systems
Political Sociology and the Global South
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health
Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
Theory
2014-2015
Contentious Politics and Organizations
Conversation Analysis
Ethnography
Family
International Migration
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health
Stratification, Inequality & Mobility
Theory
2013-2014
Contentious Politics and Organizations
Conversation Analysis
Ethnography
Family
Program on International Migration
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health
2012-2013
Conversation Analysis
Ethnography
Family
Labor
Poverty and Inequality
Program on International Migration
Race and Ethnicity
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health
2011-2012
Conversation Analysis
Ethnography
Family
Labor
Poverty and Inequality
Program on International Migration
Sociology of Gender
2010-2011
Bourdieu
Conversational Analysis
Family
Gender
Migration
Quasi-Experimentation in Practical Research: The Case of Labor
2009-2010
Ethnography
Family
Gender
Migration
Religion
Work, Labor, and Social Movements
2008-2009
Ethnography
Family
Gender
Migration
Race and ethnicity
Religion
2007-2008
Culture
Ethnography
Family
Gender
Migration
Public Sociology
Race and Ethnicity
2006-2007
Family
Gender
Race and Ethnicity
International Migration
Public Sociologists
2005-2006
Family
Quantitative Sociology.
Gender
Boundaries
Race and Ethnicity
International Migration
2004-2005
Boundaries
Family
Gender
Health and Medicine
2003-2004
Gender
Health and Medicine
Music
Political Sociology
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Social Control
2002-2003
Gender
Health and Medicine
Music
Political Sociology
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Social Control
2001-2002
Social Movements
Race, Ethnicity, Immigration
Gender
Networks, Trust and the Economy
2000-2001
Ethnographies
Gender
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Beliefs and Knowledge
Social Movements
Social Networks
