academia
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On today's episode of The Annex, we discuss a recent blog entry on "academic hazing" on circulating in academic Twitter, and where to draw the line between abusive and legitimate work demands.
Joe, Leslie, and Mark Horowitz (Seton Hall) discuss student protests at Seton Hall over representation, and one of the students’ demands for formal influence over faculty hiring. The case is used as a platform for discussing the role of students in making faculty hiring decisions.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Fabio Rojas (Indiana University) about his work on the historical development of the Black Studies discipline. 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 an Academic Discipline. His new book […]
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Fabio Rojas (Indiana University) discuss elitism in sociology. 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 an Academic Discipline. His new book is Theory for the Working Sociologist
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Melissa Wilde from the University of Pennsylvania discuss the John Jay scandal, in which several professors have been accused of misconduct and crimes involving students, sex, and drugs.
Joe, Gabriel and Melissa Wilde discuss how Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo physics professor, won a Nobel Prize before promotion to full professor.
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 […]
