In this episode of The Annex, we meet Casey Jakubowski (University of Maryland, Eastern Shore) and Chea Lynn Parton (Purdue). We’ll explore the unique experiences and observations that led our guests to develop a keen interest in teaching rural students. We’ll also dive into the similarities and differences between teaching rural and urban […]
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Also, we discuss Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle, charges of data falsification in France, and the case of Brooke Harrington and academic freedom in Denmark.
Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Robert Francis (Johns Hopkins) about his work studying working class, white male Trump supporters. Robert wrote “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States” in Socius.
We interview John Eason from Texas A&M, and author of Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation (University of Chicago Press) . We also discuss representation at ESS plenary sessions (0:50) and class inequality (19:25).
We interview John Eason about his work on the rural prison industry and the communities that house them, and his book on the topic, Big House on the Prairie.