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Office Hours

Conversations about social science

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Emily Baxter on “We Are All Criminals”

Emily Baxter on “We Are All Criminals”

In this episode, we talk with Emily Baxter, creator of the documentary project “We Are All Criminals,” where participant... Read more

6 Dec 2013

21mins

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Lane Kenworthy on Inequality and Social Policy

Lane Kenworthy on Inequality and Social Policy

This week we talk with Lane Kenworthy, Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona. Lane s... Read more

5 May 2014

26mins

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Jane Ward on Sex Between Straight White Men

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 Californi... Read more

27 Apr 2016

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Greta Krippner on the Politics of Financial Crisis

Greta Krippner on the Politics of Financial Crisis

University of Michigan professor Greta Krippner offers a sociological perspective on changes that have made the American... Read more

25 Jun 2015

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William Alexander on Fantasy and Social Theory

William Alexander on Fantasy and Social Theory

In this episode, we have a conversation with William Alexander. He is slightly different type of social theorist than we... Read more

18 Feb 2013

26mins

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Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp on Public Sociology

Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp on Public Sociology

This week, we talk with Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp, co-editors of Sociological Images. Gwen and Lisa were in Minneapolis t... Read more

11 Jun 2012

35mins

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Law Enforcement and Science with David Harris

Law Enforcement and Science with David Harris

In this episode, we talk with University of Pittsburgh School of Law Professor David Harris about his new book Failed Ev... Read more

26 Nov 2012

22mins

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Abigail Saguy on What’s Wrong with Fat?

Abigail Saguy on What’s Wrong with Fat?

In this episode, Dr. Abigail C. Saguy joins us to talk about her excellent new book What’s Wrong with Fat? Abigail is an... Read more

30 Sep 2013

28mins

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Richard L. Zweigenhaft on The New CEOs

Richard L. Zweigenhaft on The New CEOs

This episode we speak with Richard L. Zweigenhaft about his research, with G. William Domhoff, on diversity in the power... Read more

26 Jun 2012

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Natasha Warikoo on The Diversity Bargain

Natasha Warikoo on The Diversity Bargain

In this episode, guest host Neeraj Rajasekar talks to Harvard professor Natasha Warikoo about her book The Diversity Bar... Read more

6 Feb 2017

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Suzanne Mettler on The Submerged State

Suzanne Mettler on The Submerged State

This episode we talk with Suzanne Mettler about her new book, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Und... Read more

17 Apr 2012

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Drop In: Matt Snodgrass on Prison and Reoffenders

Drop In: Matt Snodgrass on Prison and Reoffenders

This episode is the first Drop In: a new, shorter style of Office Hours episodes that we’ll be mixing into the podcast e... Read more

6 Mar 2012

9mins

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Joshua Newman and Michael Giardina on NASCAR Nation

Joshua Newman and Michael Giardina on NASCAR Nation

This week we talk with Joshua I. Newman and Michael Giardina about their recent book [Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Natio... Read more

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Joanna Kempner on the Gender Politics of Migraine

Joanna Kempner on the Gender Politics of Migraine

Because they suffer from an invisible affliction, people with migraines are sometimes suspected of “making up” their dis... Read more

8 Oct 2015

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Natan Sznaider on Compassion

Natan Sznaider on Compassion

This episode we talk with Natan Sznaider about the Holocaust, memory, and human rights. He is the author of Jewish Memor... Read more

8 Aug 2013

28mins

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Shehzad Nadeem on Outsourcing in India

Shehzad Nadeem on Outsourcing in India

This week we talk with Shehzad Nadeem, author of Dead Ringers: How Outsourcing is Changing the Way Indians Understand Th... Read more

19 Sep 2012

35mins

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Susan Terrio on Children in US Immigration Custody

Susan Terrio on Children in US Immigration Custody

Professor Susan Terrio of Georgetown University discusses her new book, Whose Child Am I? Unaccompanied, Undocumented Ch... Read more

23 May 2015

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Knowledge Production and Public Engagement (a Panel Discussion)

Knowledge Production and Public Engagement (a Panel Discussion)

Nicholas Kristof’s recent critique of sociology, political science, and the humanities for effectively isolating themsel... Read more

10 Mar 2014

39mins

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Katherine Newman and The Accordion Family

Katherine Newman and The Accordion Family

Our guest this episode is Katherine S. Newman, and our topic is her new book, The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxi... Read more

30 Jul 2012

39mins

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Sergio Chávez on Border Lives and Transnationalism

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 wi... Read more

27 Feb 2017

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