The Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is sponsoring a Brown Bag Seminar today (Oct. 4) at noon in the Rhododendron Room, Mountainlair.
Elijah Anderson is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology, and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. Professor Anderson is the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award of the American Sociological
Association and the 2017 recipient of the Merit Award of the Eastern Sociological Society.
For more information visit the Department of Sociology and Anthropology website.