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The Department of Sociology invites you to its annual Workshop on Sociological Research (WSR) series. These workshops are designed to provide a space for faculty, graduate students, and invited guests to present, discuss and improve in-progress manuscripts that advance sociological knowledge, to facilitate communication and collaboration among faculty, students, and invited guests, and to strengthen the intellectual culture of the community at FAU.�� The WSR meets several times each semester in the Sociology Department's Conference Room (CU 249) on the Boca Raton campus. Unless otherwise noted, workshop sessions meet from 2:00 to 3:30 PM. For more information on the WSRs, or for access to WSR paper manuscripts, contact Philip Lewin��(lewinp@fau.edu).

Upcoming WSR Events

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Past WSR Events

Spring 2026

Jose Luis Jimenez-Figarotti, "The Architectonics of the Virtual Thirdspace: Pedagogy of Radical Flexibility" (4/2/2026)

Matty Lichtenstein, "From Population to Problem: Reconstructing Child Welfare as Risk Governance" (2/27/2026)

Fall 2024

Matthew Marr, "Equitable Pathways from Unsheltered to Housed in Miami-Dade County" (11/14/2024)

Sebastien Antoine, "Who Are the Workers Behind the Global Tech Industry? Insights into Trajectories, Agencies and Worldviews from Fieldwork in Brazil" (10/25/2024)

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

Philip Lewin, “The Affordable Housing Crisis in South Florida: Insights from the Lake Worth Beach Emergency Housing Study" (4/5/2024)

Annabelle Campbell, "Economic Fascism in the Modern Era: A Case Study of Florida's Live Local Act" (1/26/2024)

Matty Lichtenstein, "The Reconfiguration of American Child Welfare Governance, 1945-1980"�� (12/11/2023)

Daniel Auguste, "Entrepreneurship Return to Education: How Much Does the Founder's Race Matter?" (11/10/2023)

Phillip A. Hough, “Post-Neoliberal Possibilities: Production, Livelihoods, and Development across the Global Coffee Belt, Second Round of Fieldwork, Central Coffee Highlands, Kenya” (10/2/2023)

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Yangsook Kim, “Necropolitics of Care: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in LA’s Koreatown during the Pandemic” (1/27/2023)

Philip Lewin, "Legitimating Rural Corruption: The Cultural Politics of Graft in Central Appalachia" (12/2/2022)

Phillip A. Hough, "Production, Livelihoods, and Development across the Global Coffee Belt: The First Round of Qualitative Fieldwork in Rural Colombia"(10/12/2022)����

Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Phillip A. Hough, Charles Burggraff, Vanessa DeBecze, Sergio Gandia-Vargas, Blake Rubin, “Beyond the Fields: The Politics of Solidarity of the Student Farmworker Alliance” (2/25/2022)

Fall 2020 - Spring 2021

Stephanie Ortiz, FAU Sociology, "Manipulation, Repression, and Everyday Sexism Online" (11/13/2020)

Will McConnell, FAU Sociology, “Social Networks and Disability” (3/5/2021)

Laura Backstrom, FAU Sociology, “Parenting in Place: How Family Social Capital Shapes Childcare Decisions among Rural and Suburban Parents” (4/2/2021)