Category: Seminars

Matt Katz
Reporter
WNYC and NPR

Books available for purchase and author’s signature.

Friday, October 21, 2016 
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor Armitage Hall

Lunch will be served
Free and open to the public

Matt will tell the inside political story about Chris Christie’s seven years as governor, from the Bridgegate scandal to his controversial role in Camden to his presidential candidacy.

Matt Katz is a political reporter for WNYC and NPR who covered New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for more than five years, first for The Philadelphia Inquirer and then for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio. He ran The Christie Tracker — which followed the governor through scandal and presidential candidacy — and appeared weekly on WNYC Studios’ Christie Tracker Podcast. In January 2016, Matt’s biography of Christie — American Governor: Chris Christie’s Bridge to Redemption — was published by Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions. Matt has written about politics for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic and POLITICO magazine.

In 2015 Matt and a team from WNYC won a Peabody Award for their coverage of Christie and the Bridgegate scandal. Prior to covering the Statehouse in Trenton he spent time in Afghanistan, writing a series on reconstruction efforts that won the Livingston Award for International Reporting. In 2009 his four-part investigation about Camden set the stage for an end to the state’s takeover of city government.

CURE seminars are free and open to the public.  No registration is required. 

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Please join us for our next seminar:
“Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment”

Michael Javen Fortner, PhD
Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies
Murphy Institute for Worker Education an Labor Studies,
City University of New York

Friday, May 6, 2016 
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor, Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served
Free and open to the public

Professor Michael Fortner will be discussing his book, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, with Professor Jane Siegel.

Review of Professor Michael Fortner ‘s book by the New York Times available at https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/books/review/black-silent-majority-by-michael-javen-fortner.html

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_{CURE seminars are free and open to the public.  No registration is required.} 

_{Visitor Parking
Parking in Rutgers–Camden lots is by permit only. Visitors to Rutgers–Camden should obtain a temporary permit to park in a lot from 8 a.m. Mondays through 5 p.m. Fridays.? Contact Parking and Transportation for more information.?}

_{Parking and Transportation
(within the Rutgers University Police Department)?
409 North Fourth Street?
856-225-6137
?Please visit these sites for directions to campus and to view a campus map}

Please join us for our next seminar:
“An Ethnographic Portrait of Drug Dealing and Policing in a Small Black Town”

Waverly Duck, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh

Friday, April 8, 2016 
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Executive Dining Room, Campus Center
Lunch will be served

This project explores residents’ perspectives on drug dealing and law enforcement in a small black town, providing new insights into a critical challenge facing low-income minority communities. In-depth ethnographic studies provide a unique opportunity to capture the cultural narrative of deprivation that exists in poor African American neighborhoods today. Few legitimate economic opportunities are available to these residents, and those that do exist come with risks. For example, with no legal jobs nearby, residents must commute long distances by car to get to work. Dr. Duck examines the accounts of several residents with regard to law enforcement and drug dealing over a seven-year period, and shows how they are embedded in a local interaction order—a set of patterned relations governed by endogenous rules and conventions whereby residents organize and coordinate their social lives. In doing so, he demonstrates the complex intersection of family dynamics, inadequate education, unemployment, debt, drug dealing, contact with law enforcement, imprisonment, and criminal records woven into the fabric of residents’ lives.

Waverly Duck is an urban sociologist whose primary research examines the social order of neighborhoods and institutional settings. His academic areas of interest are urban sociology, inequality (race, class, gender, health and age), qualitative methods, culture, ethnomethodology and ethnography. His research on masculinity, health, crime and violence, and inequality has appeared in the journals Ethnography, Journal of Urban Affairs, Sociological Focus, Critical Sociology, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Crime, Law and Social Change and African American Studies. His book, No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing with the University of Chicago Press, challenges the common misconception of urban ghettos as chaotic places where drug dealing, street crime, and random violence make daily life dangerous for everyone. No Way Out explores how neighborhood residents make sense of their lives within severe constraints as they choose among very unrewarding prospects. His second manuscript, Ethnographies is under contract with Roudtledge Press, examines the history of ethnography in sociological research.

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_{CURE seminars are free and open to the public.  No registration is required.} 

_{Visitor Parking
Parking in Rutgers–Camden lots is by permit only. Visitors to Rutgers–Camden should obtain a temporary permit to park in a lot from 8 a.m. Mondays through 5 p.m. Fridays.? Contact Parking and Transportation for more information.?}

_{Parking and Transportation
(within the Rutgers University Police Department)?
409 North Fourth Street?
856-225-6137
?Please visit these sites for directions to campus and to view a campus map}