{"id":23132,"date":"2016-01-01T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T18:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=23132"},"modified":"2016-04-25T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:51:08","slug":"elizabeth-armstrong-a-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/elizabeth-armstrong-a-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Armstrong, \u201cSex, Alcohol, & Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1604-Elizabeth-Armstrong-flyerWEB\"<\/a>Ford Alumni Center
\nGiustina Ballroom
\n1720 E. 13th Ave.
\nUO campus
\nPDF flyer<\/a><\/p>\n

College professor Elizabeth A. Armstrong<\/a> spent five years inhabiting a dorm room on the Indiana University campus while studying the party culture that dominates student social life. In a public lecture titled \u201cSex, Alcohol, and Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk,\u201d Dr. Armstrong will talk about what she learned at 7 p.m., Thursday April 21, at the Ford Alumni Center\u2019s Giustina Ballroom, 1720 E. 13th Ave., on the University of Oregon campus.<\/p>\n

Armstrong, the coauthor of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality<\/em><\/a> (Harvard University Press, 2013), is a sociologist with research interests in the areas of sexuality, gender, culture, organizations, social movements, and higher education. She joined the Department of Sociology and the Organizational Studies Program at the University of Michigan in 2009. Before that, she held a faculty appointment in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a recipient of a National Academy of Education\/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a B.A. in Sociology and Computer Science from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n

This event is being sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, UO Departments of Sociology and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, the Division of Student Life, and Fraternity and Sorority Life.<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/em> interview with Elizabeth Armstrong: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/04\/education\/edlife\/elizabeth-a-armstrong-on-her-book-paying-for-the-party.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n

Comments from publisher on Paying for the Party<\/em><\/h6>\n