Sociology Seminar Series – Feb 19 – Adia Harvey Wingfield
Please join us on Friday, February 19th, as we welcome Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield of the Washington University in St. Louis as our first Spring 2016 Seminar Series speaker. Professor Wingfield will present:
“Professional Work in a Postracial Era: Black Americans’ Everyday Racial Realities in the Health Care Industry.”
Friday, February 19th at 12PM
in SOC Room 241
100 Cummington Mall, Boston MA 02215
Free and Open to the Public
Event Flyer
Biography: Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield is a Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She was on the sociology faculty of Georgia State University from 2006 through 2015. Professor Wingfield received a Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2004. She specializes in research that examines the ways intersections of race, gender, and class affect social processes at work. In particular, she is an expert on the workplace experiences of minority workers in predominantly white professional settings, and specifically on black male professionals in occupations where they are in the minority.
Dr. Wingfield has lectured internationally on her research in this area, and her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Social Problems, Gender & Society, Qualitative Sociology, and American Behavioral Scientist. She is the author of several books, most recently the award-winning No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work (Temple University Press).
Professor Wingfield teaches classes on race, gender, social theory, and work, that encourage students to wrestle with the ways that intersections of race, gender, and class are institutionalized in various social spheres like media, the workplace, schools, and in public spaces.
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