Upcoming Events

Here is a list of upcoming events (other than Notestein Seminars and Computing and Statistics Workshops).

• Sep 27 Father involvement and behavioral outcomes among youth from high poverty neighborhoods
  Sarah Gold, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• Oct 4 The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila
  Marco Garrido, University of Chicago CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Oct 11 Growing up poor but doing well: Contextual factors that predict academic success
  Radha Jagannathan, Professor of Statistics, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
• Oct 11 Chinese Migration in Africa: The New Frontiers
  Yoon Jung Park, Georgetown University CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Oct 18 Migration and Climate Change: New Challenges in Development
  Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Oct 25 Lessons Learned from the Fragile Families Challenge: Privacy and Metadata
  Ian Lundberg & Alex Kindel, Graduate Students in Sociology, Princeton University
• Oct 25 Economic Crisis and Technocratic Repression: Origins and Rationality of Austerity
  Clara Mattei, New School for Social Research CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Nov 8 Welfare Policy Regimes and Political Participation: Evidence from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
  Susanne Schwarz, Graduate Student in Politics, Princeton University
• Nov 8 Culture, Art, and Migration in the New Trenton
  Princeton students and community activists report on findings from their research on the effects of immigration on business formation, culture, and art in a declining but resilient industrial city. Sponsored by The Program in Community Engaged Study (PROCES) and the PIIRS Research Lab on Peoples and Cultures across Borders.
• Nov 15 The Global Edge: Miami Today
  Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and the University of Miami CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Nov 29 Investigating a Link between Child DNA Methylation and Exposure to Fracking
  Ben Jacobson, Undergraduate ’19, Princeton University
• Nov 29 Citizenship, Poverty, and the Informal Economy in Rio de Janeiro
  Brodwyn Fisher, University of Chicago CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Dec 6 Human Rights, Memory, and Micro-Solidarity
  Lea David, University College Dublin CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
• Dec 13 Adolescent Striving and Methylation Aging
  Lauren Gaydosh, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
• Dec 13 Undocumented Life in the Age of Mass Deportation
  Denise Brennan, Georgetown University CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Past Events

The following is a list of past events (other than Notestein Seminars and Computing and Statistics Workshops).

• Dec 17 The Effects of Public Transfers on the Health and Well-being of Fragile Families
  Lorenzo Almada, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University
• Dec 10 Chaotic Environments and Their Influence on Child Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes
  Daniel Bell, Research Assistant, National Center for Children and Families
• Nov 19 Non - Resident Fathers' Financial Contributions, Parental Stress and Child Wellbeing
  Elia de la Cruz Toledo, Post-doctoral Research Scientist, and Ron Mincy, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Columbia University
• Nov 19 Symposium on The State and the Grassroots: Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Four Continents (Berghahn Books, 2015)
  Center for Migration and Development Colloquium Series. Author/Editor: Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and University of Miami. Discussants: Natasha Iskander, New York University; Jose Itzigsohn, Brown University
• Nov 12 Intragroup Heterogeneity and Blackness: Effects of Racial Classification, Immigrant Origins, Social Class, and Social Context on the Racial Identity of Elite College Students
  Center for Migration and Development Colloquium Series. Camille Charles, University of Pennsylvania (Co-Sponsored by the Race and Inequality Series organized by Megan Blanchard, Angela Dixon, and Janeria Easley)
• Oct 29 Place-based Social Mobility of Children in Fragile Families
  Louis Donnelly, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University
• Oct 29 The Effect of Ethnic Enclaves On Job Matching and Wage Growth
  Center for Migration and Development Colloquium Series. Ted Mouw, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Co-Sponsored by the Race and Inequality Series organized by Megan Blanchard, Angela Dixon, and Janeria Easley)

• Dec 15 The Stress of Instability: Childhood Experiences of Instability and Consequences for Health
  Lauren Gaydosh, University of North Carolina
• Dec 12 “Beyond Borders”
  PLAS Film Screening of: “Beyond Borders” A PBS Documentary Directed by Micah Fink Executive Produced by Enrique Krauze and Al Permutter. A Co-Production of The Independent Production Fund (US), Clio TV (Mexico), and La Fabrica de Cine (Mexico). Panel Discussion Featuring: Micah Fink (Film Director), Isamar Padilla (DACA Recipient), Doug Massey (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), and Dan-El Padilla (Princeton University). Co-sponsored by the Office of Population Research and the Program in Latino Studies.
• Dec 1 Genetic Reactivity and Child Outcomes from Birth through Adolescence
  Rebecca Johnson, Princeton University
• Nov 17 New Directions in Transnational Studies: Chinese Migration and Entrepreneurship in Latin America
  Presenters: Adrian Hearn, University of Melbourne and Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and University of Miami. Discussant: Yu Xie, Princeton University CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Colloquium Series - Fall 2016
• Nov 10 Exploring Borderlands: Urban Citizenship and Local Border Practices (with)in Europe
  Henrik Lebuhn, Homboldt University and Graduate Center, City University of New York
• Oct 20 Non-heterosexual Teens in Fragile Families: Initial Evidence and Research Opportunities
  Joel Mittleman, Princeton University
• Oct 20 Children of Immigrants in a Time of National Uncertainty
  Daniel Connolly, Journalist and Author of The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants seeks his Own America CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Colloquium Series - Fall 2016 Co-sponsored by the PROGRAM IN LATINO STUDIES
• Oct 13 What’s up with the Fragile Families Sleep Study, Anyway?
  Lauren Hale, Columbia University
• Oct 6 STEM migration and Global Talent in an Era of Mass Migration: The Cases of Denmark and Sweden
  Shahamak Rezaei, Roskilde University and Johan Sandberg, Lund University CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Colloquium Series - Fall 2016
• Sep 29 Legacies of geopolitical threat: A Macro-historical Approach to Anti-immigration Sentiment in Europe
  Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Colloquium Series - Fall 2016
• Sep 22 The Impacts of Residential Segregation of Brazilian Immigrants in Japan
  Chikako Mori, Hitotsubashi University of Tokyo CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Colloquium Series - Fall 2016
• Sep 15 Dual Citizenship as a Strategy of Resource Accumulation: Evidence from Serbia, Mexico and Israel
  Yossi Harpaz, Princeton University and Tel-Aviv University CENTER FOR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT Colloquium Series - Fall 2016
• Sep 15 Housing Eviction in Fragile Families: Prevalence and Determinates
  Ian Lundberg and Louis Donnelly, Princeton University
• Sep 13 Fall 2016 Introduction Party
  RSVP required.
• May 23 Web Scraping and Text Processing 2016
  A five-day event organized by the Politics department to introduce tools and techniques for automatic content extraction from the web and for other related text processing tasks. The workshop will be divided into 3 sections that can be attended independently: 1. Intro to Python, 2. Web Scraping using R, 3. Web Scraping using Python.
• May 19 Punishment and Child Support: How Institutions of Social Control Shape the Lives of Men and Families
  Lynne Haney, New York University
• May 12 Consequences of Special Education on Self-esteem and Academics
  Leah Gillion, Ph.D Student, Sociology, Princeton University
• May 12 Class Matters among African Americans, Anglos, Latinos, and Asian Americans
  Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University
• Apr 28 The Dreamers as a Target of Diaspora Policies: Integration in the Country of Origin
  Alexandra Délano, The New School
• Apr 21 Lay of the Land: New Patterns of Rural-Urban Migration in China and the ‘Peasants in Apartments’ Movement
  Dai Li, Peking University and Princeton University
• Apr 14 Sleep Duration, Behavior Problems, and Children's Telomere Length
  Sarah James, Princeton University
• Apr 14 Beyond Blood and Soil: Jus Pecuniae and the Rise of Citizenship by Investment
  Kristin Surak, University of London and Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies
• Apr 7 Beyond the social context: Thinking about child contributions in transactional models of development
  Michael MacKenzie, Rutgers University
• Apr 7 Stigmatizing Deportation: How Mexican and U.S. Migration Policies along the Border Shape Unauthorized Migrants’ Sense of Self and Cross-Border Int
  Heidy Sarabia, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino Studies
• Mar 31 A Social Policy Transformation? An Inquiry into Evidence, Assumptions, and Unanticipated Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers
  Johan Sandberg, Lund University
• Mar 24 Fragmented Schooling: Examining the Educational Experiences of Indigenous, Undocumented, and Deported Mexican Youth
  William Pérez, University of California, Los Angeles Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino Studies
• Mar 10 Physical Environment and Early Delinquency
  Sarah Gold & Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Rutgers University
• Mar 10 Unsettling lives at the Border: Care and Control in Contexts of Poor Immigrants in Northern Chile
  Angel Aedo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies
• Mar 3 Understanding Child Support Payment Trajectories
  Irv Garfinkel, Laurel Sariscsany & Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Columbia Unversity
• Mar 3 "The Head of Joaquín Murrieta” – Lynching and Resistance among Latinos in the American South West
  John Valadez, documentarian will screen his latest work, a poetic and highly informative rendition of a theme that seldom receives attention. Co-sponsored by the Program in Latino Studies
• Mar 2 Innovations in the 2020 Census
  Lisa Blumerman, Associate Director for the Decennial Census Programs and K. Evan Moffett, Assistant Division Chief for Geographic Operations, U.S. Census Bureau
• Feb 4 Mass Incarceration and the Underground Economy
  Amanda Geller, New York University & Bryan Sykes, University of California, Irvine
• Jan 25 Advanced Statistical Programming Camp 2016
  A five-day event organized by the Politics department to expand the computing toolset of researchers using R to analyze big datasets and run computationally intensive tasks
• Jan 24 Statistical Programming Camp 2016
  A five-and-a-half-day event organized by the Politics department to teach the basics of statistical programming using R, an open-source computing environment.

• Dec 7 Revisiting the Asian American Success Paradox
  Jennifer Lee, Columbia University
• Nov 30 Race, Class, and Sex Differences in Exposure to Police
  Amanda Geller, Clinical Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University
• Nov 30 Pictures of Poverty: Resolutions and Scales of Seeing Like a State
  Luciana de Souza Leao, Columbia University
• Nov 16 Understanding the Impact of Colonization and Capitalism on Algerian Society
  Amín Pérez, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies
• Nov 9 Miami: Constructing the Global City
  Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and University of Miami
• Nov 8 Symposium on Art and Immigration
  Featuring Public Artist: Xavier Cortada (Miami, FLA) Interlocutor: Kency Cornejo (University of New Mexico) (Sponsored by the PIIRS Research Community on Peoples and Cultures across Borders)
• Oct 19 Family Socioeconomic Status at Birth and Youth Obesity at Age 15; Race and Gender Differences in a National Urban Sample
  Shervin Assari, Alvin Thomas & Cleopatra Caldwell, University of Michigan & Ron Mincy, Columbia University
• Oct 12 The Role of Fathers in Reducing Inequality in Child Outcomes
  Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Rutgers University
• Oct 5 The Mestizo Nation Unbound: Dual Citizenship of Euro-Mexicans and US-Mexicans
  Pablo Mateos, CIESA – Guadalajara, Mexico
• Sep 28 Update on the Fragile Families Challenge
  Matt Salganik, Ian Lundberg, Alex Kindel, & Sara McLanahan, Princeton University
• Sep 28 Heritage Language Bilingualism and Self-identity: The Case of Children of Immigrants in Spain
  Maria Medvedeva, Princeton University
• Sep 21 Inequalities in the Returns to Childhood Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
  Jayanti Owens & Louis Donnelly, Princeton University
• May 22 Web Scraping and Text Processing 2017
  A 5-day event organized by the Politics Dept to introduce tools and techniques for automatic content extraction from the web and for other related data-handling tasks. The workshop will be divided into 3 sections that can be attended independently: 1. Web Scraping using R, 2. Intro to Python, 3. Web Scraping and Text Processing using Python.
• May 11 Neighborhood Air Pollution and Children’s Cognitive Functioning
  Brandon Wagner, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas Tech University. Seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Please contact ffdata@princeton.edu if you are interested in attending and have not received an email invitation.
• May 11 Mapping the Fatefulness in Everyday Life: A Sociology of Small Events
  Alice Goffman, University of Wisconsin. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series.
• May 4 Narratives of Asymmetrical Interactions between Police and Black Citizens
  Waverly Duck, University of Pittsburgh. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series.
• Apr 27 The Digital Poorhouse: Regulating the Poor in the 21st Century
  Virginia Eubanks, University at Albany, SUNY. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series.
• Apr 20 Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
  Michele Lamont, Harvard University. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series.
• Apr 18 Comparing Immigrant Integration in North America and Western Europe
  Nancy Foner, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series. (Co-sponsored by the PIIRS Research Community on Migration: People and Cultures across Borders)
• Mar 30 Paradoxes of Integration: Why did Immigrant Fertility Decline in Norway?
  Marianne Tønnessen, Statistics Norway and Princeton University. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series.
• Mar 30 Chains of Adversity: The Time-Varying Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Adolescent Wellbeing
  Kristin Turney, Associate Professor, Sociology, UC-Irvine. Seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Please contact ffdata@princeton.edu if you are interested in attending and have not received an email invitation.
• Mar 16 Linguistic Integration and Immigrant Health: The Longitudinal Effects of Interethnic Social Capital
  Mesay A. Tegegne, University of Iowa. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series. (Co-sponsored by the PIIRS Research Community on Migration: People and Cultures across Borders)
• Mar 9 Bondage and Skill Erasure: Migrant Workers in Qatar’s Construction Industry
  Natasha Iskander, New York University. Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series (Co-sponsored by the PIIRS Research Community on Migration: People and Cultures across Borders)
• Mar 2 The Fragile Families Challenge: A Scientific Mass Collaboration to Improve the Lives of Disadvantaged Children in the United States
  Matt Salganik, Professors of Sociology, Princeton University and Ian Lundberg, PhD Candidate, Sociology. Seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Please contact ffdata@princeton.edu if you are interested in attending and have not received an email invitation.
• Feb 23 International Sanctions, Regional Circulations and the Emergence of a Transnational State in Iran
  Amin Moghadam, Princeton University, Center for Migration and Development 2017 Spring Colloquium Series
• Feb 9 Exploring the Biological Data in Fragile Families
  Colter Mitchell, Faculty Research Fellow, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Please contact ffdata@princeton.edu if you are interested in attending and have not received an email invitation.
• Feb 2 The Geography of Opportunity: Developmental Trajectories of Children in Baltimore
  Elia De la Cruz Toledo, Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and staff. Please contact ffdata@princeton.edu if you are interested in attending and have not received an email invitation.
• Jan 30 Advanced Statistical Programming Camp 2017
  A five-day event organized by the Politics department to expand the computing toolset of researchers using R to analyze big datasets and run computationally intensive tasks
• Jan 29 Statistical Programming Camp 2017
  A five-and-a-half-day event organized by the Politics department to teach the basics of statistical programming using R, an open-source computing environment.

• Sep 13 State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Records
  Allison Dwyer Emory, Post-Doctoral Associate, Rutgers School of Social Work
• May 21 Web Scraping and Text Processing 2018
  A five-day event organized by the Politics department to introduce tools and techniques for automatic content extraction from the web, parsing, and other related data-handling tasks. The workshop will be divided into 3 sections that can be attended independently: 1. Intro to Python, 2. Web Scraping using R, 3. Web Scraping using Python.
• May 17 Genetic Main Effects versus Genetic Moderators: Gene-Environment Interactions in Child Problem Behaviors
  Rebecca Johnson, Doctoral Student, Princeton University Department of Sociology
• May 10 Copy Number Variation as a Source of Genetic Heterogeneity
  Kalsea Koss, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
• May 10 Federica Querin will present at Princeton Research Day
  Princeton Research Day highlights the research and creative endeavors of Princeton undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in fields including the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, humanities and the arts. The event is a collaborative initiative between the offices of the dean of the college, dean of the faculty, dean of the Graduate School and dean for research.
• Apr 19 The Cognitive Construction of Asian American: Stereotypes, Boundaries, and Narratives
  Jennifer Lee, Columbia University
• Apr 12 Dreams Fulfilled, Delayed, or Recast: West African Diversity Visa Lottery Winners in the United States
  Onoso Imoagene, University of Pennsylvania
• Apr 5 Hyper-Selectivity, Asian Achievement, and Racial Mobility
  Van Tran, Columbia University
• Mar 15 The American Welfare State in the Economic Lives of Children
  Irv Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia School of Social Work and Laurel Sariscsany, Doctoral Student, Columbia University School of Social Work
• Mar 15 Social Class, Immigration, and the New American Populism
  Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Princeton University
• Mar 1 The Visual Politics of Exodus: Central American Art on Violence and Migration
  Kency Cornejo, University of New Mexico
• Mar 1 The Creation and Application of Polygenic Scores in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
  Colter Mitchell, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• Feb 22 Structural Adjustment, Socialist Revolution, and the 1989 ‘Transition'
  Johanna K. Bockman, George Mason University and Institute for Advanced Study
• Feb 8 The FFCW Sleep Sub-Study Current Findings and Renewal Plan
  Lauren Hale, Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University Orfeu Buxton, Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State University
• Feb 1 Social Determinants and Influence of Grit on Academic Outcomes
  Leah Gillion, Doctoral Student, Princeton University Department of Sociology
• Jan 29 Advanced Statistical Programming Camp 2018
  A five-day event organized by the Politics department to expand the computing toolset of researchers using R to analyze big datasets and run computationally intensive tasks
• Jan 28 Statistical Programming Camp 2018
  A five-and-a-half-day event organized by the Politics department to teach the basics of statistical programming using R, an open-source computing environment.