Alice S. & Peter H. Rossi Speaker Series: Devah Pager
The Department of Sociology and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences present the third annual Alice S. and Peter H. Rossi Speaker Series. This year's talk, "Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in a Low Wage Labor Market," will be given by Devah Pager. A public reception will follow.
Pager is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Pager's recent research has involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage labor market. Her book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago, 2007), investigates the racial and economic consequences of large scale imprisonment for contemporary U.S. labor markets. As a separate line of work, Pager spent a year in Paris on a Fulbright grant studying changes in crime policy and its relationship to patterns of immigration and ethnic tension in contemporary France. Pager holds Master's Degrees from Stanford University and the University of Cape Town, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Alice S. and Peter H. Rossi lecture series was established in 2007 to honor this distinguished couple, whom many consider to be among the most dynamic in sociological history. They greatly elevated the department’s profile. Both were named Distinguished Professors—Peter became the Stuart A. Rice Professor and Alice, the Harriet Martineau Professor of Sociology. Nationally, both were elected president of the American Sociological Association, and both received the Association’s highest award for distinguished scholarship. The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management now presents the Peter H. Rossi Award for exemplary contributions in program evaluation. Alice was honored in 2006 at the 40th anniversary meeting of the National Organization for Women; she is one of only two surviving founders of NOW.
