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Jessica Calarco on Holding it Together

Jessica Calarco discusses the many ways American society traps women and sells myths that harm women and families.
Jenn Sims on the Fallacies of Racism

Jennifer Patrice Sims discusses twelve commonly-held, but faulty, ideas about race and racism.
Andrews and Colleagues on Banished Men

Abigail Andrews, Ana Lopez-Ricoy, and Pamela Elguezabal on their research into the impact of deportation on men’s lives in Mexico, detailed in their 2023 book, Banished Men.
Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn on Life Under Pressure

Examines youth suicide clusters, and the social environmental forces that cause psychological pain and suffering.
Michelle S. Phelps on The Minneapolis Reckoning

Efforts at police reform before and after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Ugo Corte on Dangerous Fun

Corte shares his ethnographic work on big wave surfing, risk-taking, and the difference between pleasure and fun.
Dwaine Plaza and Regan Gurung on Teaching in Pandemic Times

Dwaine Plaza, Professor of Sociology at Oregon State University, and Regan Gurung, Professor and Director of the General Psychology Program at Oregon State University joined Dan Morrison to discuss their […]
Antar Tichavakunda on Black Campus Life

Antar Tichavakunda discusses black campus life
Catherine Tan: Spaces on the Spectrum

Catherine Tax discusses autism
Torin Monahan on Crisis Vision

In today’s episode of The Annex, Daniel Morrison sits down with Torin Monahan, author of Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance (2022, Duke University Press). Torin Monahan […]
Daniel Menchik on Managing Medical Authority

Daniel Menchik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Author of the 2021 book Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge (Princeton University Press). Menchik […]
Public Broadcasting with Josh Shepperd

Josh Sheppard discusses the roots of American public media.