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Sociology
Interviews with sociologists about their new books.
November 3, 2026
Home Team Away
Home Team Away: Watching European Football in Urban China (U Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Yuan Gong calls for a rethinking of sport fandom that is div…
November 2, 2026
The Invisibility Of Religion In Contemporary Art
In this episode of the Books for Better Understanding series from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson hosts Jonathan A. Anderson and James Elkins for a di…
October 27, 2026
American Amazigh
American Amazigh: Remaking North African Indigeneity and Belonging in the Diaspora (NYU Press, 2026) by Dr. Heide Castañeda examines the complex ident…
October 26, 2026
Carceral Utopia
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a widespread …
October 26, 2026
Code of the Street
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal …
October 25, 2026
Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia
What can shared sacred sites tell us about religious coexistence in South Asia? Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot joins Shreya Urvashi to discu…
October 21, 2026
Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order
What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode of Internat…
October 19, 2026
Queer Resistance
Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi examines tr…
October 17, 2026
Multiracial Mandarin
Who has the “right” to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language (U Minnesota Press, 2026), Dr. David S…
October 16, 2026
Predicted
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Ind…
October 14, 2026
Hit Doctors
As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Surv…
October 13, 2026
Inquisition for Blood
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Blac…
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…