The 16th William H. Sewell Memorial Lecture and reception will be held on Friday, April 22, 2022 at 4:00pm CT in room 8417 in the Sewell Social Sciences Building. Professor Chaeyoon Lim will deliver the lecture “Changing Religious Landscape in America: What Is Happening and How Does It Matter?”
Lim joined our department in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and full Professor in 2018. Lim’s departmental areas of interest are Political Sociology, Methods and Statistics, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Religion, Organizational and Occupational Analysis. He received the Vilas Associate Award for 2016 – 2018 and the Vilas Mid Career Award for 2018 – 2021.
Partners, spouses, and other family members are invited to attend the lecture. In addition, the department will invite their Board of Visitor members, and the main office will close early to support staff attendance. There will be an outdoor reception after the lecture to which everyone is invited.
Attend in person if you are able and feel comfortable. There will also be an option to attend virtually via Zoom; we will post the Zoom link as the event date gets closer.