Comparative Research Workshop
Spring 2010

January 12
Issac Reed  (Sociology, University of Colorado)
Julia Adams (Sociology, Yale)
"Culture in Transitions to Modernity: Seven Sociological Models"

January 19
Philip Gorski (Sociology, Yale)
Vivek Sharma (Political Science and The MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics and Society, Yale)
"A Neo-Mathusian Theory of State Formation"

January 26
Marnia Lazreg (Sociology, Hunter College- CUNY)
"Fanon without Masks: Decolonization and Counter-Insurgency War"

February 2
Jeff Guhin (Sociology, Yale)
"The source of religion: reason, power, or sacred?"

February 9
David Bargueno (Sociology, Yale)
"Faith, Business, & Activism: An Evaluation of the International Response to Mass Killings in German South West Africa and the Congo Free State, 1884-1909"

February 16
John Hartley (Sociology, Yale)
"Factionalism in Iranian Politics:
Competing Cultures of Governance?"

February 23
Sorcha Brophy-Warren (Sociology, Yale
"Jeopardizing Civility: Imagining the Transnational in the Anglophone Caribbean"

March 2
Waverly Duck (Sociology, Yale)
"A Mixed Method Examination of the Relationship between Masculinity(ies) and Health for African American Men"

March 9
Spring Break

March 16
Spring Break

March 23
Mary D. Lewis (History, Harvard)
"The Politics of Protection: International Law, Imperial Subjects, and the Fluid Boundaries of Empire in French North Africa."

March 30
Andy Junker (Sociology, Yale)
"Religion and Mobilization in Diaspora: The Chinese Democracy Movement and the Falun Gong Compared"

April 6
Suzanne Marchand (History, Louisiana State)
"Appreciating the Art of Others in the Imperial Age: An Austro-Hungarian Case Study"

April 13
Yingyao Wang (Sociology, Yale)
"The State, Economists, and Knowledge Production of the Market in Contemporary China"

April 20
Amanda B. Moniz, Ph.D. (History, Yale)
"The Unnatural War: Moral Responsibility in a Deranged Community"

April 26
Reading Period