Dan Morrison interviews Dr. Alka Menon, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Alka is author of Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards, published in 2023 by the University of California Press. The book shows how cosmetic surgeons at the global, national, and local levels participate in racial projects through niche standardization.
Joe interviews Nicole Bedera, a graduate student at Michigan who recently posted a viral tweet reviewing recent research on teen sexual assault: […]
This week, we speak with Boston University‘s Ashley Mears, the current chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Consumers and Consumption. […]
Gabriel makes the case to Joe, Leslie, and Elizabeth Popp-Berman (SUNY Albany) about whether the ASA should replace round tables with more […]
Melissa Wilde from University of Pennsylvania discusses her soon-to-be-released book on how early struggles over birth control reflected race fears, and helped shaped […]
