Teacher Spotlight: Courtney Bell
In this episode, guest host Amber Joy chats with Courtney Bell, a high school teacher in North Minneapolis who was a candidate for the 2018...
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20 of 100 episodesBest of 2017: Mimi Schippers on Polyamory and Polyqueer Sexualities
In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future...
Best of 2017: Lisa Wade on American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
In this episode, guest hosts Amber Powell and Allison Nobles talk to Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College Lisa Wade about...
Trevor Hoppe on Punishing Disease
In this episode, guest host Caty Taborda-Whitt sits down with Trevor Hoppe to discuss his new book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminali...
Michael Schudson on The News Media
In this episode, guest host Wahutu talks to Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Michael Schudson about his new book The News Medi...
Marianne Cooper on Families in Insecure Times
Stanford sociologist Marianne Cooper is a leading expert in the field of gender and family dynamics. Her latest book, Cut Adrift: Families i...
Theda Skocpol on the Koch Network
Our guest today is Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and the director of the...
Sergio Chávez on Border Lives and Transnationalism
With the election of Donald Trump, much has been made about the construction of barriers to entry along the US border with Mexico. But while...
Natasha Warikoo on The Diversity Bargain
In this episode, guest host Neeraj Rajasekar talks to Harvard professor Natasha Warikoo about her book The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dile...
Stephen Ellingson on Religious Environmentalism
In his new book, To Care for Creation: the Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement, Professor Stephen Ellingson explores new ̵...
Vanesa Ribas on Immigration to the New South
Prior to the 1990s, the sociology of immigration focused mainly on just a handful of major cities where most new arrivals had settled throug...
Douglas Hartmann on Midnight Basketball
In this episode, I talk to University of Minnesota Professor and Editor-In-Chief of TheSocietyPages Douglas Hartmann about his book Midnight...
Joel Best on the Creepy Clown Craze
Across the country, sightings of people dressed as “creepy clowns” standing in forests, on roads, in doorways has exploded and captured part...
Jooyoung Lee on Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central
In this episode, I talk to University of Toronto professor Jooyoung Lee, author of Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central. This conversatio...
Aldon Morris on The Scholar Denied
Northwestern University professor Aldon Morris discusses W.E.B. Du Bois and the status of his work in the sociological canon. In this specia...
Dalton Conley on the Use of Genomic Biology in Sociology
Office Hours is back for fall semester! We welcome new producer Matthew Aguilar-Champeau, whose soundscaping includes a musical refresh cour...
Doug McAdam on American Racial Politics and Social Movements
In this episode, host Jack Delehanty speaks with Stanford sociologist Doug McAdam, whose 2014 co-authored book Deeply Divided: Racial Politi...
Jane Ward on Sex Between Straight White Men
New host Allison Nobles interviews Jane Ward, a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California Riverside. Dr Ward...
Lois Lee on Recognizing the Non-religious
While religious rhetoric pervades everyday American culture and politics, the population of Americans who identify with no organized religio...
Best of 2015: David Pellow on Nonhuman Members of the Community
This week, David Naguib Pellow drops in for a chat about his latest book, Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the R...