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Sociology
Interviews with sociologists about their new books.
October 1, 2026
How Girls Achieve
How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. S…
September 30, 2026
Transient Becoming
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragment…
September 27, 2026
Apocalyptic Abolitionism
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century America In March 1844, Mel…
September 19, 2026
Sociology of Gender in India
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian sociology. Spa…
September 18, 2026
Class Struggle and the New York Mets
With his riveting chronicle of the New York Mets baseball team, AM Gittlitz is emerging as a rising star in the field of popular social history. Writi…
September 17, 2026
Educators As Designers
An invitation to K-12 educators to reimagine their roles through the transformative lens of design In Educators as Designers, Jim Gaona Ellis draws on…
September 13, 2026
Be Water
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s co…
September 12, 2026
Building Postcarbon Futures
What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to t…
September 7, 2026
Data-Driven Hollywood
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also i…
September 2, 2026
Diseases Have No Eyes
Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice (Temple University Press, 2026) investigates how communities in Central Valley,…
August 30, 2026
The Love of Books
Why do people read? In The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object (Manchester University Press, 2026) María Angélica Thumala Olave, …
August 29, 2026
Unwelcome Shores
Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press, 2025) is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten …
August 27, 2026
Protecting Workers?
In our recent conversation about Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia (Helsinki UP, 2026), the editors Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfri…
August 25, 2026
Occupying the Everyday
Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharik…
August 21, 2026
Scattered Steel
Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center (Cornell UP, 2026) traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trad…
August 20, 2026
Happy to Help
As a big sister, Girl Scout, personal assistant, sitcom sidekick, and, finally, mother of three, Amy believed it was her destiny to be a people please…
August 20, 2026
The Making of Modern Eating
Nineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French chefs fleeing guillotines, and one of the most rapid…
August 19, 2026
Routes of Taiwan Tea
From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and…
August 19, 2026
A Cure for Loneliness
Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community and friendsh…
August 19, 2026
Ganja Matters
Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant species Ca…