Past Conferences

2025 Conference
“What Can We Do About It? Sociologists As Change Agents”
Speakers: Dr. Anna Haskins, Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Cynthia E. Coburn, Professor, Northwestern University

2024 Conference
“If They Come In The Morning”: Stories and the Sociology of Education
Speakers: Dr. Karida L. Brown, Professor of Sociology, Emory University and Dr. Daniel G. Solórzano, Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education and Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California Los Angeles

2023 Conference
“The Future of the Sociology of Education and Navigating the Four Pandemics”
Speakers: Dr. Dominique J. Baker, Associate Professor of Education Policy, Southern Methodist University, and National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and Dr. Odis Johnson Jr., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Education and Executive Director of the Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, Johns Hopkins University

2022 Conference
“Unequal Organizations”
Speakers: Dr. Eve L. Ewing, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, and Dr. Victor Ray, F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor, University of Iowa

2021 Conference
“When Inequality Comes to School”
Speakers: Dr. John Diamond, Dr. Annette Lareau, Dr. Anthony Jack, Dr. Douglas Downey, Dr. Josipa Roksa, and Dr. Jessica Calarco

2020 Conference
“The Limits of American Education’s Promise”
Speakers: Dr. Tressie McMillan-Cottom and Dr. Gilda L. Ochoa

2019 Conference
“Knowledge and Power”
Speakers: Kris Gutiérrez and Elizabeth Popp Berman

2018 Conference
“Educational Resources”
Speakers: Roberto G. Gonzales and Thomas M. Smith

2017 Conference
“Power and Schooling in the 21st Century”
Speakers: Steven Brint and Amanda Lewis

2016 Conference
“Contradictions in Education: Patterns and Consequences”
Speakers: David Labaree and Brian Powell

2015 Conference
“Trajectories of Educational Advantage and Disadvantage”
Speakers: Karl Alexander and Lois Weis

2014 Conference
“Understanding Educational Contexts and Inequalities: Influences and Outcomes “
Speakers: Amy Binder and Adam Gamoran

2013 Conference
“The Social Context of Schooling: Educational Inequality in a Changing Society”
Speakers: Prudence Carter and Sean Reardon

2012 Conference
“40 Years of Research: Sociology, Education and Equity 1972-2012”
Speakers: Karl Alexander and Patricia McDonough 

2011 Conference
“Equality of Educational Opportunity and Educational Policy “
Speakers: Christopher Jencks and Thomas A. DiPrete 

2010 Conference
“Social Relationships, Schools, and Student Outcomes”
Speakers: Annette Lareau and Robert Crosnoe 

2009 Conference
“Moving Up or Moving Out: Social Inequality in Educational Transitions”
Speakers: Claudia Buchmann and Russell Rumberger

2008 Conference
“Higher Education Access and Success: Identifying Successful Pathways”
Speakers: Michael Nettles and Patricia Gandara and Gary Orfield

2007 Conference
“School Contextual Effects on Educational Outcomes for Diverse Populations”
Speakers: Jacquelynne Eccles and William Trent

2006 Conference
“Social Capital and Educational Achievement”
Speakers: Ricardo Stanton-Salazar and Barbara L Schneider

2005 Conference
“Critical Issues in Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives”
Speakers: Gloria Ladson-Billings and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

2003 Conference
“Silencing Dissent: Categorization, Regulation and the Patrolling of Identity”
Speakers: Pedro A. Noguera and Joyce Elaine King

2002 Conference 2002
“Race, Ethnicity, and Urban Education in the 21st Century: The New Demographic Context & Its Sociological Implications”
Speakers: Jean Anyon, Samuel R. Lucas, Michele Foster

2001 Conference
“Dangerous Dialogues: Talking Through the Complex Texture of Class, Race and Gender”
Speakers: Joseph R. Feagin and Walter R. Allen

2000 Conference
“Educational Stratification: Past and Prospects”
Speakers: Joel Spring and Ronald Corwin

1999 Conference
“Difference and Power:  Issues of Race, Social Class, Gender and Language”
Speakers: Donaldo Macedo and Roxana Ng

1998 Conference
“Will the “Public” in Public Education Survive School Reform?” 
Speakers: Herbert Gintis and Michael Apple

1997 Conference
“Stratification of Educational Opportunities in an Era of Waning Affirmative Action”
Speakers: Troy Duster and Gary Orfield

1996 Conference
Immigration and Schooling