Highlights from past annual conferences 2011 - 2023
2023 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Jeneile Luebke
Keynote: " Maamwi Noojimodaa (Let's Heal Together): Indigenous-led and Survivor Efforts to Address the Crisis of Missing Murdered Indigenous Relative (MMIR)"
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2022 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Sacoby Wilson
Keynote: "Environmental Justice and Health Inequalities: A Call to Action"
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No keynote was provided
2019 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Kristine Ajrouch
Keynote: "Identity, Place and Power: Interrogating Borders in the 21st Century"
Link to keynote speech
2018 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. H. Luke Shaefer - Co-author of "$2.00 a Day, Living on Almost Nothing in America" and the director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan.
Keynote: Poverty and Mobility
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2016 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Mark Mizruchi - University of Michigan
Keynote: "Practical Sociology: from sociological imagination to implementation”
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2015 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. George Lipsitz - University of California - Santa Barbara
Keynote: "Time Has Come Today: Why Sociology Matters Now”
2014 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Michael Burawoy, University of California-Berkeley.
"Forty Years of Labor"
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2013 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Monica White, University of Madison Wisconson
Keynote: “Black Farmers, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement.”
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No keynote was provided​
2012 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Tracey E. Ore, St. Cloud State University
Keynote: “Social Constructions of Difference and Inequality: Domestic and International Realities.”
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No keynote was provided
2011 Annual Conference
Featuring Dr. Bonilla Silva Duke University
Keynote: "The invisible weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America"