Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) interviews Dr. Melissa Osborne (@mosbornesoc.bsky.social), Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Washington University on their 2024 book Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility, which was published by the University of Chicago Press. The book follows 150 low income and first-generation college students as they […]
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Dan Morrison speaks with Dr. Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Bradlow discusses his 2024 book, Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, which was published by Princeton University Press. Urban Power won the Best Book Award from the Latin American […]
Today on the Annex, a conversation with Dr. Atiya Husain, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College. Husain is author of No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism, published by Duke University Press in 2025. The book deeply investigates the category of race, racialization, the “average” man, […]
A second interview with Dr. Ernesto Castañeda, @drernestocast.bsky.socialProfessor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University in Washington, DC. Castañeda is an expert on migration, health disparities, social movements, and urban sociology. Castañeda is joined by his coauthor, Daniel Jenks, @jenksd.bsky.sociala graduate […]
The first of two interviews Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) conducted with Dr. Ernesto Castañeda (@drernestocast.bsky.social), Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the Immigration Lab at American University in Washington, DC. Castañeda is an expert on migration, health disparities, social movements, and urban […]
Today, Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) hosts a conversation with Dr. Sharon Quinsaat (@sharonquinsaat.bsky.social), associate professor of sociology at Grinnell College. Quinsaat is author of Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, which was published in 2024 by the University of Chicago Press. A deeply researched and multi-layered project on the […]
Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) in conversation with Dr. Cayce Jamil (@mutualsociology.bsky.social), the Assistant Director of Research Development and Strategic Alliances at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Jamil holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Jamil discusses Emile Durkheim and his […]
Today, Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) interviews Dr. Joanna Kempner (@joannakempner.bsky.social), Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Kempner is author of Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine, published in 2024 by Hachette Books. Kempner takes us on a journey into the history and politics of knowledge concerning drugs like psilocybin […]
Dr. Mariana Craciun, Associate Professor of Sociology at Tulane University about her new book From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy
Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) interviews conversation with Dr. Jason Blakely, (@jasonwblakely) Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. Blakely is a political theorist whose work examines forms of inquiry in the human sciences, political and social polarization, communitarianism and post-liberal thought. He is sole author of three books and co-author […]
