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University of Notre Dame
October 17-19, 2019 

Schedule of Sessions
Note: For coauthored papers, the schedule only reflects coauthors who have registered to attend and co-present at the conference.

Thursday October 17th, 2019
THU 5:30-7:30 pm
Registration - Jenkins Nanovic Forum

THU 6:30-8:30
Opening Reception for Presenters -  Jenkins Nanovic Forum (cash bar & heavy appetizers)
Welcoming Remarks by Ted Beatty, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs

Friday October 18th, 2019
FRI 8:30-9:00 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast

FRI 9:00 am
Education and Inequality - Hesburgh Center C103
Session Chair: Patrizio Piraino, University of Notre Dame

• Carolyn Choi, University of Southern California
  The Rise of the “Global Province” in the Eduscape: English Education, Consumption, and Compensatory
  Temporary Class Mobility among Low-Resourced South Korean Educational Migrants in the Provincial
  Philippines
• Harold J. Toro, University of Notre Dame
  Who Benefits from a College Education? The Influence of Higher Education on Inter-generational Stratification in Mexico
• Rachael Pierotti, World Bank
  Understanding Gender Differences in Occupational Choice among Youth in Republic of Congo
• Stephen Gasteyer & Brendan Mullan, Michigan State University
  Limited Mobilities: Neoliberalizing Higher Education and Growing Social Inequality in Palestine

FRI 9:00 am
Global Health: Knowledge & Practice - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Sarah Bosha, University of Notre Dame

• Acheampong Yaw Amoateng, North-West University, South Africa
  The Culture-Development Nexus: The Case of Socio-cultural Correlates of Non-Adherence to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) at a Wellness Clinic in South Africa
• Emmanuel F. Koku, Drexel University
  Stigma, HIV Testing and Disclosure among African Immigrants in the USA: A Social Network Analysis
• Jonathan Shaffer, Boston University
  Reassembling Global Health: Re-Wiring Material and Symbolic Exclusions in Service of Expanded Health Rights
• Nicole Angotti, American University
  Health (Mis)Matches: The Production of Sexual Health Lifestyles in Rural South Africa

FRI 9:00 am
Managing Household Work & Consumption - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Tushi Baul, University of Notre Dame

• Raka Sen, University of Pennsylvania
  Adaptation Labor: Gender, Work, and Climate Change in the Sundarbans
• Jeong Hyun Oh, University of Chicago
  Gendered Crossings: Male Involvement in Child Healthcare and Intra-household Dynamics in Ethiopia
• Rita Jalali, American University
  Access to Sanitation & Hygiene: Women’s Autonomy and the Allocation of Resources within Indian Households
• Samuel Cohn, Texas A & M University
  The Viability of Social Democratic Development: Lessons From Social Accounting Matrices

FRI 9:00 am
Politics & the Environment - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Andrew Jorgensen, Boston College

• Andrew N. Le, University of California, Los Angeles
  When All the Fish Are Dead: An Environment Disaster and the Transformations of a Vietnamese Fishing Village
• Maria Akchurin, Loyola University Chicago
  The Judicialization of Environmental Conflicts: Bureaucracy and Resistance in Chilean Environmental Courts
• Orla Kelly, Boston College
  The Empowerment Paradox: Exploring the Implications of Neoliberalized Feminism for Sustainable Development
• Rachel M. Gurney, University of Notre Dame
  The Influence of State Politics on Local Climate Adaptation

FRI 9:00 am
Power Dynamics and Development - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Session Chair: Susan Lee, Boston University

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, Franklin & Marshall College
  “How Will You Give Back?” Reflecting on Feminist Methodologies in Contexts of Development
• Jennifer Keahey, Arizona State University
  Sustainable Development and Participatory Action Research: A Systematic Review
• Michelle Poulin, World Bank
  Livelihood Strategies in Zambia: Lived Experiences and Public Commitments to Living a Good Life
• Rae Lesser Blumberg, University of Virginia
  Gender, a Kosovo Post-ceasefire Emergency Farm Reconstruction Project and the Albanian Mafia: Academic-Practitioner Collaboration vs. Corruption

FRI 9:00 am
The Causes & Consequences of Violence - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Catherine Bolten, University of Notre Dame

• Alex Diamond, University of Texas at Austin
  Of Hydroelectric Dams and Gold Mines: How Local Populations use Collective Memory to Think through Megaprojects in Colombia’s Post-Peace Agreement Transition
• Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame
  Violence Matters: Structural Change, Development and Peace
• Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
  Hindu-Muslim Violence in India 1980-2010: The Role of Economic and Political Factors
• Tania DoCarmo, University of California, Irvine
  Crime, Rights or Inequality? Re-Exploitation and Violence after Sex Trafficking Survivors in Cambodia Return Home
  
  

FRI 10:30-11:00 am
Coffee & Snacks

FRI 11:00 am
Challenging Methods & Measurement in Development Research - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: James Copestake, University of Bath, UK

• Emily Smith-Greenaway, University of Southern California
  New Indicators of Mortality: Maternal-Oriented Measures of Child Mortality
• Gary Goertz, University of Notre Dame
  Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty and Wealth: Concept Asymmetry and Nonlinear Semantics
• Rob Clark & Jeffrey Kentor, University of Oklahoma
  Foreign Capital in the 21st Century: Constructing the Global FDI Network, 2001-2017
• Thomas Mustillo, University of Notre Dame
  Developing a Theoretical Imagination: In Defense of Methodological Promiscuity

FRI 11:00 am
Gender Inequality and Political Representation - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Jennifer Fish, Old Dominion University

• Abigail Jorgensen, University of Notre Dame
  After Women Are Elected: A Cross-National Study Testing Assumptions of the Impacts of More Women in Parliament on Broader Gender Equality, as Mediated by Quotas
• Barbara Wejnert, University at Buffalo
  Differential Outcomes of Democracy and Development on Women and Men from 1970 to 2015
• Manjing Gao, University of California, Riverside
  Women’s Political Representation and Corruption: Risk Aversion or Political Power?
• Patrick A. Levine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  The Politics of Care or Competition: Descriptive Representation and the Gendered Culture of Parliaments

FRI 11:00 am
New Sites and Scales of State Capacity - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame

• Aaron W. Tester, University of California, Irvine
  Reconstituting the State: Decentralization and the Rise of Local Governments
• Babyrani Yumnam, State University of New York at Binghamton
  State at the Margins: Politics of Development and Governance in North East India
• Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University
  Mapping Uneven State Capacity in Karachi, Pakistan
• Kyle Chan, Princeton University
  State Capacity and Bureaucratic Structure: A Comparative Study of Railway Development in China and India
  
  

FRI 11:00 am
Powerful but Invisible: Contemporary Social Forces Affecting Health - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Lillian Walkover, Drexel University

• Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley
  When Good Motives Backfire: HIV Clinic Workers in Malawi
• Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University
  Benefits or Baggage? The Legacies of Health Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Tara McKay, Vanderbilt University
  Gays Engage: Mobilizing for Rights and Health across the African Continent
• Terry McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
  Routine, Ritual, and Creativity: How Everyday Culture Shapes Health

FRI 11:00 am
Reception of Migrants - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt, University of Notre Dame

• Robert Dowd, University of Notre Dame
  Believing and Belonging: Religion and National Identity in an Era of Rapid Migration
• Enrique S. Pumar, Santa Clara University
  Uneven Development and Social Distance among Ethnic Groups: Lessons from the Dominican Republic
• Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee, University of Notre Dame
  Expectations, Agency and Accompaniment: Exploring a Humanitarian Corridor Project in Italy
• Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Racializing Refugees: The Racial Logics of Asylum in Brazil

FRI 11:00 am
Professionalization Panel on Scholarly Publication - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium

• Omar Lizardo, University of California, Los Angeles
  Editor, American Sociological Review
• Andrew Jorgensen, Boston College
  Editor, Sociology of Development
• Eli Bortz
  Editor in Chief, University of Notre Dame Press

FRI 12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch (provided for presenters) - Jenkins Nanovic Forum
You are invited to join an optional Table Chat for all interested:

• Denise Wright, Assistant Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
  Topic: Kellogg Visiting Fellows Program
  Sit with Denise at lunch if you are interested in learning more about Kellogg’s Visiting Fellows Program, in-residence fellowships for postdocs, and advanced scholars working on issues relating to democracy or development.
• Michael Woolcock and Rachael Pierotti, Sociologists, World Bank
  Topic: Working at and with the World Bank
  Are you interested in potentially working at the World Bank someday? Or do you want to know more
  about doing empirical research that can inform what and how the World Bank does its work? Join this
  table to chat with sociologists employed within the Bank.
• Eli Bortz, Editor in Chief, University of Notre Dame Press
  Topic: Book publishing
  Any participants interested in carrying forward a general or specific conversation about book publishing can sit with Eli during lunch

FRI 1:30 pm
Plenary: New Moments of Authoritarianism, Comparative Perspectives on Brazil and India - Mendoza
College of Business, Jordan Auditorium
Session Chair: Erin McDonnell, University of Notre Dame

• Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley and Brown University
  Polanyi Meets Bolsonaro: Markets, the Power of Capital and 21st Century Exclusionary Politics
• Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame
  The Political Trajectories of Anti-Partisan Protest: Brazil, Bolsonaro, and Beyond
• Patrick Heller, Brown University
  The Age of Reaction: Some Comparative Thoughts on Brazil and India
• Walden Bello, State University of New York at Binghamton
  Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics: The Cases of Thailand, the Philippines, and India
• James Mahoney, Northwestern University
  Discussant & Moderator

FRI 3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee & Snacks

FRI 3:30 pm
Analyzing Discourse: Knowledge, Power, and Development - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Jennifer Keahey, Arizona State University

• Anna Malavisi, Western Connecticut State University
  Engaging Philosophy with Scholars and Development Practitioners through Structured Dialogue
• Eric Palmer, Allegheny College
  Trading Dialogue for Measurement: A Cautionary Tale of Development Ethics for the SDGs
• Ryan Nehring, Cornell University
  Tropicalization and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Brazil
• Tom Safford, University of New Hampshire
  Economic Rationale or Techno-Scientific Rationale? A Case Study of the Development of Marine
  Aquaculture in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil

FRI 3:30 pm
Explaining the Rise of Authoritarian Politics in Comparative Perspective - Hesburgh Center,
Auditorium
Session Chair: Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley and Brown University

• Cecilia Lero, University of Notre Dame
  The Middle Class and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Insights from the Philippines and Brazil
• Marco Garrido, University of Chicago
  Democracy as Disorder: Institutionalized Sources of Democratic Disenchantment among the Middle Class
  in Metro Manila
• Tomás Gold, University of Notre Dame
  The Rise of the Contentious Right in Latin America: Changing Party Strategies and Organizational
  Repertoires (2012-2016)
• Walden Bello, State University of New York at Binghamton
  Convergences and Divergences in the Middle Class' Authoritarian Turn in Thailand, the Philippines, and India

FRI 3:30 pm
Macro-Environmental Theory - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Jenn Tank, University of Notre Dame

• Andrew Hargrove, Stony Brook University
  The Global Water Crisis: A Cross-National Analysis of Metabolic Rift Theory
• J. Tom Mueller, Penn State University
  The Detrimental Impact of Natural Resource Development on American Economic Prosperity from 2000 to 2015
• Jamie M. Sommer, University of South Florida, Tampa
  Domestic Autonomy and Incentives: A Cross-National Analysis of Forest Loss
• Liangfei Ye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Environmental Field and Its Transformation
  
  

FRI 3:30 pm
New Horizons in African Demography - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Jenny Trinitapoli, University of Chicago

• Maggie Frye, University of Michigan
  Educational Expansion and Family Formation in sub-Saharan Africa
• Sarah Hayford, The Ohio State University
  Childbearing and Women's Mid-Life Well-being in a Low Income, High Fertility Context
• Julia Behrman, Northwestern University
  Point of Reference: A Multidimensional Understanding of Fertility and Migration
• Christie Sennott, Purdue University
  Relationship Power and Women's Fertility Preferences in Malawi

FRI 3:30 pm
Social Foundations of Corruption - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Aníbal Pérez-Liñan, University of Notre Dame

• Abdalhadi Alijla, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Canada (IMESC)
  Corruption and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the Middle East
• German Petersen, University of Texas at Austin
  Kick Them All Out: The Anti-Establishment Effect of Corruption Scandals
• Mariana Borges Martins da Silva, University of Oxford
  Supporting Bad Patrons: Vote Buying and Voters' Choices in Northeast Brazil

FRI 3:30 pm
The Drivers and Challenges of Professionalization - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Amy Zhou, University of California, San Diego

• Frank Spesia, Seiko Kanda, & Mukhlisa Khudayberganova, University of Notre Dame
  Gap Assessment to Identify High-Impact Areas of School Improvement in Low-Income Chilean Schools
• Leslie MacColman, University of Notre Dame
  Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? Professional Policing in Contexts of Extreme Informality
• Meghan E Kallman, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  Making the Program Officer: State-Led Development and the Professionalization of Aid
• Sneha Annavarapu, University of Chicago
  "Smart Cities need Smart Police": Traffic Rules, Police Authority and Technophilia in Hyderabad, India

FRI 5:00-5:30 pm
Beverages & Snacks

FRI 5:30 pm
Corruption and the Administrative State - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Susan Page, University of Notre Dame

• Byron Villacis, University of California, Berkeley
  Development NGOs and the Historical Introduction of Corruption as a Problem of Public Policy
• Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
  Externalities in Politicians’ Malfeasance: Norms of Corruption and Yardstick Competition
• Marina Zaloznaya, University of Iowa
  The Advantage Theory of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Socialist Societies

FRI 5:30 pm
Gender, Labor, and the Workplace - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Catherine van de Ruit, Ursinus College

• Andy Scott Chang, University of California, Berkeley
  Stratification of Gender, Occupation, and Nationality in International Migration from Indonesia
• Junmin Wang, University of Memphis
  The Myth of Female Management: Embedded Legacies, Constrained Tokenism, and New Opportunities
  in China’s Private Sector
• Nino Bariola, University of Texas at Austin
  Before and after Me Too: Culture Change and Frames of Gender Inequality and Violence
• Sophia Boutilier, Stony Brook University
  Seeking Solidarity: How Privileged Development Workers Navigate Complicity with Inequality in the Field

FRI 5:30 pm
Health Knowledge & Access - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Marie Donahue, University of Notre Dame

• Aashish Gupta, University of Pennsylvania
  Social Disadvantage and Health in India
• Lillian Walkover, Drexel University
  Subjects, Access, and Empowerment: Where There Is No Doctor and Our Bodies, Ourselves
• Sarah Michelle Alexander, Cornell University
  Do the Facts Matter? The Connection Between Knowledge and In-Home Drinking Water Behavior
• Steve Reifenberg, University of Notre Dame
  The Right to Health Care Program in Chiapas, Mexico: An Accompaniment Approach to Overcoming
  Barriers to Surgery

FRI 5:30 pm
Macro-political Approaches to Understanding State Development Trajectories - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Samuel Valenzuela, University of Notre Dame

• Jaime Hsu, State University of New York at Albany
  An East Asian Farewell to Conscription? A Comparative Study of Conscription Policies in Taiwan and
  South Korea
• Joseph Harris, Boston University
  Becoming Brokers: Building Thailand's Brand in Global Health
• Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University
  Property Rights and Development in the Americas in the Long Run, 1500-2000

FRI 5:30 pm
NGOs & Global-Local Partnerships in Development Practice - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Ray Offenheiser, University of Notre Dame

• Ann Mische, University of Notre Dame
  Scenario Workshops as Transnational Public Interventions: Mapping a Field of Practice
• Isabel Jijon, Princeton University, and Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame
  How the Complexity of Innovations Affects Diffusion
• Mujun Zhou, Zhejiang University
  Interstitial Labor Publics and the Contradicting 'New Workers' Movement' in China
• Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber, Boston University
  Community Caregiving in Uganda: Delineating a Field

FRI 7:00-10:00 pm
Optional: Development Trivia, Pizza, & Beer - Jenkins Nanovic, B101
(for those who registered separately, at an additional cost)

Saturday October 19, 2019
SAT 8:30-9:00 am
Continental Breakfast

SAT 9:00 am
Plenary: Development in Dialogue - Mendoza College of Business, Jordan Auditorium

• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor of International Affairs, The New School
• Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Woolcock, Lead Social Scientist, Development Research Group, World Bank
• Ray Offenheiser, Director, Initiative for Global Development, University of Notre Dame
  Discussant & Moderator

SAT 10:30-11:00 am
Coffee & Snacks

SAT 11:00 am
Challenges of the New Economy - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Isabel Jijon, Purchase College, State University of New York

• Alejandra Irene Cueto Piazza, Brown University
  The Creation of the Informal Economy in the Global South
• Nilanjan Raghunath, Singapore University of Technology and Design
  Theorising Social Accountability and Reputation Systems in the 4th Industrial Revolution
• Parijat Chakrabarti, Princeton University
  New Relations of Exchange: The Data Economy and Data Privacy in Nairobi's Silicon Savannah
• Paul S. Ciccantell, Western Michigan University
  Tourism and Development in the Age of Short Term Rentals: A Case Study of a Canadian Ski Town

SAT 11:00 am
Divergence and Convergence in Transnational Interventions - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico

• Allison Schnable and Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University
  International Development Buzzwords: Understanding their Adoption and Use among NGOs, Academics,
  and the World Bank
• Emily Springer, University of Minnesota
  Bureaucratic Tools in (Gendered) Organizations: Performance Metrics and Gender Advisors in
  International Development
• Kristopher Velasco, University of Texas at Austin
  A Growing Queer Divide: The Divergence between Transnational Advocacy Networks and Foreign Aid in
  Diffusing LGBT Policies

SAT 11:00 am
Identity and the Unequal Distribution of Public Goods - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Matthias vom Hau, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

• Patrick Heller, Brown University
  Field of Exclusions: Governance and Inequality in an Indian City
• Paul Atwell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Social Networks, Traditional Leadership, and Collective Action in Northern Ghana
• Amanda Flaim, Michigan State University
  Statelessness and Rural Outmigration from the Highlands of Northern Thailand

SAT 11:00 am
Interrogating Economic Growth - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Michael H Morris, University of Notre Dame

• Jerson Del Rosario, University of Leicester
  Government-Funded Entrepreneurship and the Constraints of Poverty: Lessons for Development Policy
• Laura Doering, University of Toronto
  From Abstraction to Elaboration: Constructing Financial Meaning in a Colombian Microsavings Program
• Mohammad Shahjahan Chowdhury, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
  Examining New Public Management in an Organizational Context: The Impact on Microfinance Program
  Implementation
• Thomas A. Hirschl, Cornell University
  Why are Increasing Numbers of Workers out of the Labor Force: Considering a “New Class” Hypothesis

SAT 11:00 am
Pockets of Effectiveness: Understanding Positive Deviance - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Michael Woolcock, World Bank

• Erin McDonnell, University of Notre Dame
  Beyond Executive Will: When Merely Interested or Inattentive Elites Foster PoEs in State Administration
• Heidi E Rademacher, The College at Brockport
  Survivors, Workers, and Activists: Samrakshak Samuha Nepal and the Reintegration of Survivors of
  Human Trafficking in Nepalese Communities
• Luiz Vilaça, University of Notre Dame
  Subterranean Activism and Public Outreach: Explaining Anti-Corruption Reform in Brazil
• Maria Joachim, University of Michigan
  Public-Private Partnerships are Capable of Creating Islands of Excellence through Embedded Autonomy:
  The Case of a Brazilian Healthcare Public-Private Partnership

SAT 11:00 am
Puerto Rico’s Possible Futures: A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion - Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Session Chair: Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame

• Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, Franklin & Marshall College
• Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
• Harold J. Toro, University of Notre Dame
• Marisel Moreno-Anderson, University of Notre Dame

SAT 12:30-1:30 pm
Lunchtime Plenary: Dialogue with Practitioners - Hesburgh Center Auditorium

• Ray Offenheiser, Former President, Oxfam America
• Michelle Adato, Senior Operations Advisor, Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Naomi Hossain, Research Professor, Research Accountability Research Center, American University
  Former Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (UK)
• Kimberly Pfeifer, Head of Research, Oxfam

SAT 1:30 pm
Activism & Social Movements - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Erika Summers Effler, University of Notre Dame

• Jeffrey Swindle, University of Michigan
  Foreign Aid and Violence Against Women
• Preethi Krishnan, Purdue University/Western Carolina University
  Organizational Frames and Lived Experiences : When Intersectional Grievances matter
• Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern University
  From Extension to Containment: Aid and Activism across the Syrian Warscape
• Shawn Kern, University of Notre Dame
  Repression and Ritual: How Dissident Republicans Sustain Activist Identities

SAT 1:30 pm
Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Inequality - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050B
Session Chair: Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University

• Daniel Ahlquist, Michigan State University
  Growing Inequality: Agrarian Change, Socio-Economic Differentiation & Risk-Taking in Upland
  Northern Thailand
• Matthew J. Zinsli, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  “They Take the Fame but not the Coffee”: Producer Experiences of a Weak Geographical Indications
  System in the Café de Galápagos Case
• Timothy Gorman, Montclair State University
  Accumulation without Dispossession? Distributional Impacts of Shrimp Aquaculture in Vietnam’s
  Mekong Delta

SAT 1:30 pm
Global Health: Politics and Practicalities - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Rachel Sullivan Robinson, American University

• Faiza Mushtaq, Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
  Global Public Health Initiatives and the Local Politics of Development
• Gordon C. Shen, University of California, Berkeley
  Attacks on Health Care: An Examination of Relationality in Humanitarian Response
• Lantian Li, Northwestern University
  Hidden Hegemony: The Marginalization of Patent Reform in China’s Pharmaceutical Politics
• Tuba I. Agartan, Providence College
  Tracing Universal Health Coverage in the Global Development Agenda

SAT 1:30 pm
Macro-Approaches to Understanding Poverty & Inequality - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Estela Rivero, University of Notre Dame

• David L. Brown, Cornell University
  A Relational Approach to Rural and Regional Studies
• Frank Borge Wietzke, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
  Poverty, Inequality, and Fertility: The Contribution of Demographic Change to Global Poverty Reduction
• Roshan Kumar Pandian, Indiana University
  Globalization of Production and Income Inequality in Developing Economies
• Tom VanHeuvelen, University of Minnesota
  When Inequality Declines

SAT 1:30 pm
NGOs: Identities and Meaning-Making - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030B
Session Chair: Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame

• Amy Zhou, University of California, San Diego
  Precarious Opportunities: Career Trajectories of State and NGO Healthcare Workers in Malawi
• Katherine Comeau, University of Notre Dame
  It's Not About Charity: How Humanitarian NGOs Select Their Projects
• Katherine Copas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Development Involvement: Citizens Influenced or Indifferent?
• Shanna Corner, University of Notre Dame
  Religion and Women’s Rights in the United Nations: Identities, Personal Knowledge, and Micro-
  Processes

SAT 1:30 pm
Urbanization and Development - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Ijlal Naqvi, Singapore Management University

• Jonathon Geels, Troyer Group, Inc.
  The Tyranny and Triumph of Place: Examining Generational Design Strategies for Public Places and their
  Effect on Community
• Liguang Li, University of Notre Dame
  Urban Development of Beijing from 1978 to 2017
• Simeon J. Newman, University of Michigan
  Urbanization, Brokerage, Power: The Case of 20th Century Mexico City
• Yu Chen, Independent Researcher
  Advance in Housing Right or Accumulation by Dispossession? A Comparative Study on Social Housing
  Boom in Mexico and in China

3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee & Snacks

SAT 3:30 pm
Contesting Causes of Development - Hesburgh Center, C103
Session Chair: Tom Purekal, University of Notre Dame

• Andre Nickow, Northwestern University
  Mobilizing for Entitlement: A Randomized Evaluation of a Homestead Land Rights Initiative in Bihar, India
• Matthias vom Hau, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
  Political Settlements and State Performance in the Developing World
• Wen Xie, University of Chicago
  State, Culture and Development: Regional Pathways toward Capitalism in China

SAT 3:30 pm
The Politics of Identity & Belonging - Jenkins Nanovic, 1030A
Session Chair: Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame

• Anna Calasanti, University of New Mexico
  Privilege and Voice: NGOs Advocating for Women's Rights at the UN
• Barbara R. Walters, City University of New York, Queens College
  CEDAW, the Rights of Women, and Human Development
• Joan Ryan, University of Pennsylvania
  Exploring the Use of Phylogenetic Trees to Trace Ethnolinguistic Influences on Demographic Behaviour
• Soma Chaudhuri, Michigan State University
  Donor Funds Driven Development Agenda and Its Impact on Gender Based Empowerment Programs

SAT 3:30 pm
Labor, Workers, Rights & Wellbeing - Jenkins Nanovic, 1050A
Session Chair: Harold Toro, University of Notre Dame

• Catherine van de Ruit, Ursinus College
  Community Health Workers’ Pursuit of Workplace Recognition in the South African Health System
• Joshua Pine, University of Notre Dame
  Designing for Behavior Change of Construction Labor in Urban Mexico and India
• Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University
  Fairtrade Certification Strategies and Realities: Challenging Buyer Power and Fostering Worker
  Wellbeing and Labor Agency in Ecuador
• Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  The Life-Course of Transnational Regulation in Bangladesh: What Next for Labor Governance in the
  Garment Supply Chain?

SAT 3:30 pm
New Directions in the Sociology of Development - Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Session Chair: Jennifer Krauser, University of Notre Dame

• Brendan Mullan, Michigan State University
  Development Challenges Facing Greece: Economic, Demographic, and Migration
• David C. Sorge, University of Pennsylvania
  Modelling Diffusion of Collective Action in India, 1980-2000
• Olukunle P. Owolabi, Villanova University
  Did Colonial "Native Codes" Hinder Long-term Development in the Global South?
• James Copestake, University of Bath, UK
  Attributing Development Impact Using the QuIP: Collaborative Innovation in Eliciting Credible and Cost-
  Effective Grassroots Feedback