WashU Sociology's Fall 2026 Colloquium Series: Nina Bandelj

Join the WashU Department of Sociology for the second installment of our Fall Colloquium Series, featuring Prof. Nina Bandelj.

Presentation: Title TBA

Nina Bandelj is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. An economic sociologist, Bandelj has published numerous articles and chapters on how relational work, culture, power, and emotions influence investment, spending, debt, inequality, and ideas about the economy. Bandelj, who received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, is past Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and the European University Institute in Florence. She is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association honorary society, and a recipient of the Distinguished Mid-Career Award for Service, the Dynamic Womxn Award for Academic Achievement, and the Carol Connor Equity Advisor Impact Award from the University of California, Irvine. Bandelj was Vice President of the American Sociological Association for 2021-22 and President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics for 2023-24. She was long-standing and first woman editor of Socio-Economic Review. She serves on the Executive Council of the Sociological Research Association. Her new book, Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting (Princeton University Press) came out in January 2026. She is also a co-author of Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (Princeton University Press, 2017, with Frederick F. Wherry and Viviana Zelizer).

More about our guest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Bandelj 

Colloquia are open to a broader WashU audience; however, space is limited. 
Students who are interested in more advanced sociological inquiry are strongly encouraged to attend.