March 18, 2025
Save the date for a talk by Professor Alex Roehrkasse!
Bio: Alex Roehrkasse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Butler University. His research focuses on inequality, crime and punishment, families and children, and quantitative and historical methods. He is especially interested in the ways that families interact with the legal, criminal justice, and child welfare systems, with consequences for racial, class, and gender equity and child well-being. He also works on developing new, large-scale sources of longitudinal administrative data.
April 1, 2025
Save the date for a talk by Professor AJ Alvero!
Bio: AJ Alvero is a computational sociologist at the Cornell University Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society with departmental affiliations in Sociology, Information Science, and Computer Science. Most of his research examines moments of high stakes evaluation, specifically college admissions and parole hearings. In doing so, he addresses questions and topics related to the sociological inquiry of artificial intelligence, culture, language, education, race and ethnicity, and organizational decision making. This work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Science Advances, Poetics, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, Sociological Methods & Research, Journal of Big Data, and other venues. AJ earned his PhD at Stanford University along with an MS in statistics. Prior to entering academia, AJ was a high school English teacher in Miami, FL.