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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 Poetics.
Presenting-“Diversity Capital: Corporate Support of Black Culture,” Culture, Organizations, and Identities panel. Southern Sociological Society, April 2019, Atlanta, GA
Presenting-“Diversity Capital: How Cultural Patronage Shapes Corporate Identity”, Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley, March 2019, Berkeley, CA
Presenting-“Diversity Capital: Culture and Racial Signaling in Corporations,” Sociology Department, Stanford University, March 2019, Stanford, CA
Presenting-“Philanthropy and Black Culture,” CASBS, Stanford University, February 2019, Stanford, CA
Secretary-Treasurer (elected), Section on Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, American Sociological Association (2019- )
Named as a Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow for 2018-19 (2018)
Member of Editorial Board, Poetics (2018- )
Presenting-“Giving Black: Cultural Consumption and Cultural Steering Among Wealthy African Americans,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2018, Philadelphia, PA
Presenting-“Patrons of Memory: Museum Philanthropy among Black Voluntary Associations,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2018, Philadelphia, PA
Presenting-“Racism Rehab: Rebranding to Recover from a Racial Image Crisis,” Consumers and Consumption Mini-Conference, August 2018, Rutgers University-Camden. Camden, NJ
Remarks & Conversation-“Sociology of Museums,” 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, Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2018, Baltimore, Maryland
Elected to American Sociological Associate Sociology of Culture Committee (2017)
