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Maryland Population Research Center
2002-2003 Seminar Series
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SPEAKER:
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Carol Stack
Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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TITLE:
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Coming of Age At Minimum Wage
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DATE:
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Fri. Apr 18, 2003
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TIME:
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12:00 Noon
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PLACE:
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1103 Art-Sociology Building
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Carol Stack
received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of
Illinois, Urbana and is currently a professor in the Graduate School of
Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts
research on urban youth, migration, rural and urban families, service
sector employment, and other facets of the social context of education.
She has served as the chair of the Women's Studies program, and as the
chancellor's assistant on the status of women at UC Berkeley, writing a
report on pay and promotion differentials between male and female
faculty members. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of Stanford
University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a
Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her most recently published book
is Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South (1996), a
chronicle of the reverse migration of African Americans from the rust
belt to southern counties where their families have ties. Call to Home
won the Victor Turner Award from the Society for Humanistic
Anthropology.
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This seminar is co-hosted by CRGE.
Please join us for this brown bag event.
For the series schedule, please refer to
http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2003.shtml
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