Author Meets Critics sessions bring authors of recent important books together with discussants chosen to provide different viewpoints. The Program Committee selected the following books to be featured on this year's program.

Author Meets Critics Session. RACE IN ANOTHER AMERICA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SKIN COLOR IN BRAZIL
by Edward Telles (Princeton University Press, 2004)

Friday, August 11 | 10:30am - 12:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Howard Winant, University of California-Santa Barbara
Douglas Massey, Princeton University (Critic)
Peggy Lovell, University of Pittsburgh (Critic)
Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania (Critic)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Critic)
Edward Telles, University of California-Los Angeles (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. RAMPAGE: SOCIAL ROOTS OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
by Katherine Newman (Basic Books, 2004)

Friday, August 11 | 2:30pm - 4:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Pamela Walters, Indiana University
Amy Binder, University of California, San Diego (Critic)
Carl Bankston, Tulane University (Critic)
Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania (Critic)
Katherine Newman, Princeton University (Co-Author)
Cybelle Fox, Harvard University (Co-Author)
David Harding, Harvard University (Co-Author)
Jal Mehta, Harvard University (Co-Author)
Wendy Roth, Harvard University (Co-Author)

Author Meets Critic Session. THE DISPOSABLE AMERICAN: LAYOFFS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
by Louis Uchitelle (Knopf Publishing Group, 2006) (co-sponsored by the OOW Section)

Friday, August 11 | 4:30pm - 6:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Kevin Leicht, The University of Iowa
Arne Kalleberg, University of North Carolina (Critic)
Michael Handel,University of Wisconsin, Madison (Critic)
Maria Charles, University of Califiornia, San Diego (Critic)
Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. WORKING IN A 24/7 ECONOMY: CHALLENGES FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES
by Harriet Presser (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003)

Saturday, August 12 | 10:30am - 12:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Patricia Roos, Rutgers University
Erin Kelly, University of Minnesota (Critic)
Deborah Carr, Rutgers University (Critic)
Pamela Tolbert, Cornell University (Critic)
Harriet Presser, University of Maryland (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. THE PURCHASE OF INTIMACY
by Viviana Zelizer (Princeton University Press, 2005)

Saturday, August 12 | 2:30pm - 4:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Carol Heimer, Northwestern University
Julia Adams, Yale University (Critic)
Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts (Critic)
Mitchell Stevens, New York University (Critic)
Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. PROMISES I CAN KEEP: WHY POOR WOMEN PUT MOTHERHOOD BEFORE MARRIAGE
by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas (University of California Press, 2005)

Sunday, August 13 | 10:30am - 12:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Barbara Risman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sharon Hays, University of Southern California (Critic)
Phillip Morgan, Duke University (Critic)
Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University (Critic)
Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania (Co-Author)
Maria Kefalas, St. Joseph's University (Co-Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE: CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN MISSISSIPPI AND ITS LEGACY
by Kenneth Andrews (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

sunday, August 13 | 12:30pm - 2:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: Michael Schwartz, Stony Brook University
Belinda Robnett, University of California-Irvine (Critic)
Aldon Morris, Northwestern University (Critic)
Kenneth Andrews kta@unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. THE CHOSEN: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF ADMISSION AND EXCLUSION AT HARVARD, YALE, AND PRINCETON
by Jerome Karabel (Houghton Mifflin Company, October 2005)

Sunday, August 13 | 4:30pm - 6:10pm

Session Organizer and Presider: David Lavin, City University of New York - Graduate Center
Paul Kingston, University of Virginia (Critic)
Caroline Persell, New York University (Critic)
Mitchell Stevens, New York University (Critic)
Jerome Karabel, University of California (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. REORGANIZING THE RUST BELT: AN INSIDE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT
by Steven Lopez (University of California Press, 2004)

Monday, August 14 | 8:30am -10:10am

Session Organizer and Presider: Ruth Milkman, University of California-Los Angeles
Elizabeth Armstrong, Indiana University (Critic)
Rick Fantasia, Smith College (Critic)
Ian Robinson, University of Michigan (Critic)
Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand (Critic)
Steven Lopez, Ohio State University (Author)

Author Meets Critics Session. LOCKED IN PLACE: STATE BUILDING AND LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN INDIA
by Vivek Chibber (Princeton University Press, 2003)

Monday, August 14 | 10:30am - 12:10pm

Session Organizer: Richard Lachmann, State University of New York-Albany
Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago (Critic)
Jeffery Paige, University of Michigan (Critic)
Leo Panitch, York University (Critic)
Patrick Heller, Brown University (Critic)
Vivek Chibber, New York University (Author and Discussant)