The Department of Community and Environmental Sociology presents the 2026 Haller Lecture:
Dialogues On Shifting Power In Rural America
delivered by
Professor John Gaventa
Professor
Institute of Development Studies
and
Professor Gabe Schwartzman
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
with respondent
Loka Ashwood
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday, April 16th, 2026 at 4:00 pm
125 Ag Hall
Archibald Haller (PhD Wisconsin, 1954) was on the faculty of the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1994. In 1998, the Haller Distinguished Lectureship was established with support from friends and colleagues. The major donors were Merton R. and Peggy Barry, Verl Franz, Alejandro Portes, William H. and Elizabeth Sewell and the Spencer Foundation. There were 76 other donors, including scholars from this and other nations. Each year the Department has the good fortune to be able to bring in a high profile scholar to talk about her or his research on a topic that overlaps with Haller’s interests in social mobility and inequality.
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