Great Problems, Great Minds: Black in White Space with Yale’s Elijah Anderson

Join the Department of Social Sciences online for its fourth event in the Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series. A professor of sociology and of African American studies at Yale University and one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States, Elijah Anderson, will discuss the challenges of being Black in locations and fields that are dominated by white individuals, “white spaces." Anderson is the author of several books, most recently The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life (W.W. Norton, 2011), and is a recipient of the American Sociological Association’s prestigious W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Future Seminars

Sept. 29, 2020

Costa Samaras, Infrastructure Resilience. 

Costa Samaras is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Samaras analyzes how energy technology and infrastructure system designs affect energy use and national security, resilience to climate change impacts, economic and innovation outcomes, and life cycle environmental externalities.

Oct. 6, 2020

Shamsnaz Bhada, Engineering Humanitarian Missions.

Shamsnaz Bhada is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who focuses on systems engineering. Systems engineering concepts push the domain boundary by supporting engineering missions as well as humanitarian and social missions.

Oct. 13, 2020

Martin Pfeiffer, Nuclear Weapons and Society.

Martin Pfeiffer, from the University of New Mexico and the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, is an expert on the interaction of Nuclear Weapons and Society.

Date TBA

Jesse Jenkins, Low Carbon Energy Systems.

Jesse Jenkins leads the Princeton ZERO Lab, the Zero Carbon Energy Systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, which conducts research to improve decision-making and accelerate rapid, affordable, and effective transitions to net-zero carbon energy systems.