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Was recently interviewed by Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA Radio of Berkeley, CA about government assault on higher education in Turkey. The interview was aired in two parts and can be found here: Part I () & Part II ().
Kate Ballantine was an invited speaker at the University of Connecticut where she presented her work on the long-term development and ecosystem functions of restored wetlands. (November, 2018)
Appointed as Co-Editor-In-Chief of .
Presenting-鈥淒iversity Capital: Corporate Support of Black Culture,鈥 Culture, Organizations, and Identities panel. Southern Sociological Society, April 2019, Atlanta, GA
Presenting-鈥淒iversity Capital: How Cultural Patronage Shapes Corporate Identity鈥, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, March 2019, Berkeley, CA
Presenting-鈥淒iversity Capital: Culture and Racial Signaling in Corporations,鈥 Sociology Department, Stanford University, March 2019, Stanford, CA
Presenting-鈥淧hilanthropy and Black Culture,鈥 CASBS, Stanford University, February 2019, Stanford, CA
Secretary-Treasurer (elected), Section on Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, American Sociological Association (2019- )
Named as a (2018)
Member of Editorial Board, (2018- )
Presenting-鈥淕iving Black: Cultural Consumption and Cultural Steering Among Wealthy African Americans,鈥 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2018, Philadelphia, PA
Presenting-鈥淧atrons of Memory: Museum Philanthropy among Black Voluntary Associations,鈥 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2018, Philadelphia, PA
Presenting-鈥淩acism Rehab: Rebranding to Recover from a Racial Image Crisis,鈥 , August 2018, Rutgers University-Camden. Camden, NJ
Remarks & Conversation- Excavating the Image: Little Frank and His Carp (2003) by Andrea Fraser, Smith College Museum of Art and Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, March 2018
Presenting-High Culture, Black Culture: Strategic Assimilation and Cultural Steering in Museum Philanthropy, Culture, Wealth, and Elites session, Class and Culture Mini Conference, , February 2018, Baltimore, Maryland