David Grusky, professor de Sociologia e Diretor do Centro d Estudos sobre Pobreza e Desigualdade da Universidade de Stanford, em visita ao PPGS, com a promoção do NUCEM, no dia 15 de junho, proferirá uma conferência (09-12 horas); a tarde, a partir das 14 horas, conversará com alunos e professores do PPGS sobre as oportunidades de parceria entre a nossa Instituição e o Centro de pesquisas que dirige. Abaixo, mais informaçoes sobre o professor:
David B. Grusky is Professor of Sociology at
Stanford University, Director of the Center for
the Study of Poverty and Inequality at
Stanford University, and coeditor (with Paula
England) of the Stanford University Press
Social Inequality Series. He received his B.A.
at Reed College, his M.S. and Ph.D. at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has held
positions at the University of Chicago, Cornell
University, and Stanford University. He is a
Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, recipient of the 2004
Max Weber Award, founder of the Cornell
University Center for the Study of Inequality,
and a former Presidential Young Investigator.
His research addresses issues of inequality and
takes on such questions as whether and why
gender, racial, and class-based inequalities are
growing stronger, why they differ in strength
across countries, and how such changes and
differences are best measured. His recent and
forthcoming books are Social Stratification:
Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological
Perspective (3rd edition, coedited with Manwai
C. Ku and Szonja Szelényi, Westview Press,
forthcoming), Poverty and Inequality (coedited
with Ravi Kanbur, Stanford University Press,
2006), Mobility and Inequality (coedited with
Stephen Morgan & Gary Fields, Stanford
University Press, 2006), Occupational Ghettos
(coauthored with Maria Charles, Stanford
University Press, 2004), The Declining
Significance of Gender? (coedited with
Francine Blau and Mary Brinton, Russell Sage,
2006), and Inequality: Classic Readings in
Race, Class, and Gender (coedited with Szonja
Szelényi, Westview Press, 2006), and The
Inequality Reader: Contemporary and
Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and
Gender (coedited with Szonja Szelényi,
Westview Press, 2007).