In this week’s episode of The Annex Sociology Podcast, we talk with Monica Prasad from Northwestern University We discuss her new paper in Contemporary Sociology on problem-solving sociology, and a new grad student workshop that she is organizing. The gang also discusses the ASA’s recent statement on objectivity, and the new NDA and work-for-hire agreement at Purdue University.
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Introducing ASA Presidential candidate Aldon Morris of Northwestern University.
Introducing ASA Presidential candidate Shelley Correll of Stanford University.
Introducing ASA Vice Presidential candidate Rhacel Salazar-Parrenas from the University of Southern California, Dornsife.
Introducing ASA Vice Presidential candidate Jennifer Earl from the University of Arizona.
This week, The Annex sits down with Bart Bonikowski of Harvard University. Bart discusses his work on nationalism. Also, the Shutdown, Howard …
This week, The Annex sits down with Richard Carpiano of UC Riverside to discuss social conflict over vaccination. Richard recently published “Public …
Joe, Leslie, and Corey Fields (Georgetown University) discuss R. Kelly and reports that journal submissions are way up. Also, an interview with
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This week, The Annex sits down with Brian McCabe of Georgetown University. Brian is the author of No Place Like Home: …
Season 3 of The Annex ends with Joe, Clayton Childress (University of Toronto), and several special guests. We discuss the trials of writing, …
This week, The Annex meets Jooyoung Lee from the University of Toronto. Jooyoung is an expert on guns both in America and Canada, and has recently …
This week, The Annex sits down with Rebecca Raby (Brock University). Rebecca and her colleague Shauna Pomerantz recently published Smart Girls: …
Percheski
This week, The Annex sits down with Christine Percheski of Northwestern University to discuss her recent research on the dissolution of …
Horowitz
This week, The Annex sits down with Mark Horowitz of Seton Hall. Mark authored “Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge: …
Joe talks to Philip Cohen (University of Maryland, College Park) about commercial publishers’ efforts at vertical integration, and concerns about …
Santos
An interview with Alexis Santos (Penn State Health and Human Development), one of the researchers who questioned official death counts of …
Rojas
This week, The Annex meets Fabio Rojas from Indiana University. Fabio Rojas is the current editor of Contexts Magazine, and is the author of From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became …
This is a special episode of The Annex that looks at sociology at community colleges. We meet four colleagues at community colleges: Shirley Leyro (…
Streib
Today, we meet with Jessi Streib of Duke University. Jessi wrote The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages with Oxford …
This week, The Annex sits down with Melissa Wilde from the University of Pennsylvania. Melissa is a comparative-historical sociologists who wrote …
Gill
This week, The Annex brings you three prerecorded segments. First, the gang talk about Eliza Brown and Mary Patrick’s forthcoming piece in the …
This week, the gang sits down with Conrad Hackett from the Pew Research Center. Conrad recently authored The Future of World Religions: Population …
This week, The Annex sits down with Barry Eidlin from McGill University. Barry recently published Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and …
This week, The Annex sits down with Clayton Childress from the University of Toronto. Clayton wrote Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel with Princeton University Press. We discuss the …
We went long with Vincent Roscigno from Ohio State. We save the best banter topic for a standalone bonus episode, in which we discuss the …
This week, The Annex sits down with Vincent Roscigno of Ohio State University. Vincent is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, former editor of …
Jean Beaman from Purdue
This week, The Annex sits down with Jean Beaman from Purdue University. Jean is the author of Citizen Outsider: Children of …
In this ALL-BANTER episode, we discuss China’s social rating system, managing our schools’ and discipline’s service obligations, and reactions to …
This week, The Annex is thrilled to sit down with Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University. Robert just published The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in …
This week, The Annex meets Benjamin Shestakofsky, a doctoral student from UC Berkeley, and soon to be faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania
This week, The Annex sits down with Pat Reilly from the University of California, Irvine. Pat’s researches career development and social networks in …
This week, The Annex sits down with Amy Binder of the University of California, San Diego. Amy is the author of Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape …
In episode 23 of The Annex, we meet Neda Maghbouleh from the University of Toronto. Neda is the author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans …
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There is a brand-new, terrific sociology podcast on the block: Sociologia con Acento, a Spanish-language sociology podcast hosted by Daniel …
In this week’s episode of The Annex, we talk to Becky Yang Hsu of Georgetown University. Becky recently published a new book, Borrowing Together: …
This week, The Annex meets Japonica Brown-Saracino from Boston University. Japonica discusses research from her new book, How Places Make Us: Novel …
This week on The Annex, we talk with Kieran Healy from Duke University. Kieran is author of the much-acclaimed 2017 theory paper “Fuck Nuance” in …
We went waaaay long with Aliza Luft, and had to cut some discussion. Here is what we cut out of Episode 19. We talk about genetic genealogy and people’s conceptions of their heritage.
This week, The Annex sits down with Aliza Luft of UCLA. Aliza authored the 2015 Sociological Theory article, “Toward a Dynamic THeory of Action at …
This week, it’s an Annex banter episode, with discussions about the State of the Union address, the politicization of the term chain migration in the …
In this special episode of The Annex, we introduce the second of the three podcast pilots we developed over the break. The idea behind International …
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This week, The Annex talks with Charles Seguin from the University of Arizona, who is working on a …
In this special episode of The Annex, we introduce the pilot episode of a new podcasting project, The B-Side, hosted by Leslie Hinkson and Corey Fields of Georgetown. The B-Side is a show that discusses big ideas from …
This week, we talk with Yasemin Besen-Cassino from Montclair State University about gender and early work experiences. Yasemin is the author of a new …
In this episode, we speak with David Brady from the University of California, Riverside’s School of Public Policy , and author of Rich Democracies, …
This week, we talk to Elizabeth Popp Berman from SUNY Albany (42:35). Elizabeth is the author of the much-acclaimed Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine (Princeton University …
This week, we speak with Robert Francis from Johns Hopkins. Robert is a doctoral student whose fieldwork engages white, rural men who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. His most recent findings are …
This week, we talk to Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland, College Park. Philip currently directs the ASA Section on the Family, Contexts, …
This week, we talk to Donnell Butler, a Pahara-Aspen education fellow and the Senior Associate Dean for Planning and Analysis of Student Outcomes at …
We interview John Eason from Texas A&M, and author of Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation (University of …
This week, we talk to David Peterson from Northwestern University (31:22). David is a sociologist of knowledge and science, and his research …
This week, we speak with Boston University‘s Ashley Mears, the current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Consumers and …
This week, we speak to Stephen Vaisey from Duke University about sociology’s engagement of other disciplines. Stephen’s research spans the …
HThis week, we talk to Cristina Mora from UC Berkeley about politics and the Hispanic community in America and abroad. Cristina’s book is Making …
This week, we speak to Georgetown sociologist Corey Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American …
Daniel Fridman, University of Texas at Austin
In this episode, Daniel Fridman (University of Texas at Austin) joins us to discuss Freedom from Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina…
In this episode, the gang discusses race, medicine, and Leslie’s new book, Subprime Health. Also, a discussion about automation and job loss …
Dover’s “Greek Homosexuality”
In the inaugural episode of The Annex, Joe, Leslie and Gabriel discuss conspiracy theories and fake news, Dover’s Greek Homosexuality. Leslie also asks if Taylor Swift losing it, Gabriel …