March 2011 Hakim Program Katrina

Five Years After Hurricane Katrina: What “Recovery” Looks Like for Survivors Presented by

Dr. Mary C. Waters

The Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Lecture Series

This annual lecture series was established by Dr. Raymond Hakim in honor of his late wife, Catherine McLaughlin Hakim ’70. A sociology major at Emmanuel, Catherine studied under longtime sociology professor Sister Marie Augusta Neal, SND, who left an indelible mark on her student experience.

The lecture series commemorates Catherine’s life, her fondness for Emmanuel, and the relationships she formed at the College and continued to maintain throughout her life. The Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Sociology. Lectures focus on issues of sociology, social justice and public policy on the local, national and international levels.

The Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Lecture Series

Mary C. Waters is the M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology and former chair of the Sociology Department at Harvard University. She is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles on ethnicity, race relations and immigration, including most recently, Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, which won the American Sociological Association 2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur, Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon, W.T. Grant foundations and the Russell Sage Foundation, of which she is the chair of the Board of Trustees. Her current research compares the education of immigrants and their children in the United States and Great Britain. She is also conducting a longitudinal study of the migration, economic and psychological experiences of young adults who survived Hurricane Katrina.

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Program Welcome

Sr. Mary Johnson, SND

Chair of the Sociology Department

Introduction

Dr. Catherine Simpson Bueker

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Lecture

Dr. Mary C. Waters

M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University

Question & Answer Session

A reception will immediately follow the lecture in the Fenway Room (232) of the Administration Building.