Philip Gorsky is a comparative-historical sociologist from Yale University. His areas of research interest and focus include state formation, nationalism, revolutionism, economic development and secularization, with a special emphasis on religion and politics. You can find out more about Philip’s work on Yale’s Sociology department website. In this…

Jason Pagaduan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include race and ageing. In this episode, we discuss his dissertation topic Mall Walking: Community, Pleasure, and Self-Preservation Among Racialized Older Adults. Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.…

Jessi Streib is an assistant professor of sociology at Duke University. Her research looks at the experiences, reproduction, and alleviation of social class, all of which are a common thread throughout her publications. You can find out more about Jessi’s work on her website. In this episode, we discuss her publication, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves t…

Taylor Price is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s department of sociology. His key areas of expertise include cultural sociology, sociological theory, quantitative research methods. You can find out more about Taylor's work on his website. In this episode, we discuss his PhD dissertation which looks at changes in the music production p…

Fabien Accominotti is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research broadly lies at the intersections of cultural and economic sociology and stratification. You can find out more about Fabien on his UW-Madison Department of Sociology profile or on his personal website. In this episode, we discuss his co-au…

Christian Smith is a postdoctoral scholar in sociology at the University of California Merced and holds a PhD in the same from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of research interest include inequality, mobility, and the sociology of education. You can find out more about Christian on his website or on his UWisconsin-Madison profile. In…

Poonam Gandhi is a sociologist and professor at FLAME University’s Department of Sociology. Her areas of research interest include art and culture, gender and human relations. You can find out more about Poonam on FLAME University's faculty page. In this episode, we discuss her co-authored publication Museums and Heritage Sites — The Missing Link i…

Min Zhou is a distinguished professor of Sociology and Asian-American studies at UCLA. She also holds positions of the Walter & Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations & Communications and Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre at the university. Her areas of research interest include Asia and Asia-America, migration and development (particul…

James Braun is an economic sociologist and lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Department of Sociology. His areas of research interest include financialization, the sociology of markets and diaspora-making. You can find his publications on his academia.edu page or catch him on the Twitter handle @jbrauneconsoc. In this episode, we discuss his P…

Gil Eyal is an author and professor of sociology affiliated with Columbia University. His broad research interests encompass sociological work around science, medicine, professions, knowledge and intellectuals, which he broadly calls ‘the sociology of expertise’. He has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences (US & Canada). You c…

Jose Eos Trinidad is a doctoral student (2020) at the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology and is currently pursuing a joint PhD in Sociology and Comparative Human Development. His areas of research interest include organizational sociology, educational policy, and quantitative methods, and his research has been published in 20+ journals…

TW: mentions of death, suicide and dark humour Adam Valen Levinson is the author of the nonfiction novel The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W. W. Norton, 2017) — dubbed "Eat, Pray, Laugh" by The New York Times but/and not without its controversy. Morgan Parker, the National Book Critics Circle award winner for poetry, called him "an incredibly generous, co…

Marco Garrido is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. His work broadly looks at the relationship between the urban poor and middle class in Manila, and particularly how it shapes politics, urban spaces and social life. His work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Qu…

Kimberly Burke is a PhD student in Sociology from UC Berkeley (anticipated graduation 2023). She holds MA and BA degrees in women's studies from San Diego State University and Duke University respectively and has worked at UCLA's Centre for Police Equity (CPE) for four years. Her areas of research interest include Policing, State Violence, Inequali…

Josh Seim is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He is broadly interested in the governance of poverty and suffering, which has thus led him into the sociologies of medicine, punishment, and labour. His work has appeared in American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods and Research, Punishment and Soci…

Karlyn Gorski is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) at the University of Chicago's sociology department. Her research focuses on high school students in and around Chicago, and she is especially interested in youths' strategies for navigating the structures of schooling. You can find out more about Karlyn's work on…

Dr. Rituparna Patgiri teaches Sociology at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and holds a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology, an independent, women-led academic blog dedicated to promoting sociological content. Her areas of research interest…

Dr. Divya Balan is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She holds Doctorate, Masters and M.Phil degrees in International Studies, and is a political science graduate. Her areas of teaching and research interest include the disciplinary histories of International Studies and European Studies, international m…

Kyle Shupe is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, and is also the managing editor of Social Problems, the official publication for the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He holds an MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati and a BA in Sociology from Bowling Green State University,…

Niharika Pandit is a PhD candidate at the Department of Gender Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). She holds an MA in Gender Studies as a Felix Scholar from SOAS, University of London and a bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Journalism from Sophia College, Mumbai. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, sexualit…

Jeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of Sociology at UCLA. He holds an MA and MPhil degrees in Sociology from Yale University, and his research interests include education, culture, religion, and theory. You can find out more about Jeffrey's work on his website. On this episode, we discuss his first book, Agents of God: Boundaries of Authority i…

Alex Barnard is an assistant professor of Sociology at New York University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Sociology from Princeton University. His areas of research interest include Medical Sociology and Mental Health, Politic…

Marion Lieutaud is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Her areas of interest include gender, migration, quantitative methods, welfare states and border states. You can read about Marion's published work and research in more detail on LSE's Sociology page. On this episode, we discuss her disse…

Esha Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University's Department of Sociology specialising in the study of social inequality in the US. She holds an MA and BA degrees in Sociology from Stanford University, USA, and Presidency College, Kolkata, India, respectively. Her research interests include economic sociology, immigration, race and ethn…

Dr. Bindu Menon is a faculty member at Azim Premji University's School of Arts and Sciences, where she teaches Media and Communication. She holds a PhD in Cinema and Cultural Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her teaching interests include Media Theory, Film and Cultural Studies, Cultures of Journalism, Gender and Sexuality and D…

Michael L. Rosino is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Molloy College. His research and teaching focus on racial politics, media, social movements, crime, law and deviance, and human rights. His work emphasizes social change, policy, and community and civic engagement. He has published widely on the connections between racial oppression, struggle…

Dr. Alan Martino (he/him) is a faculty member in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. His main research interests are in critical disability studies, gender and sexualities; feminist and critical disability studies theories; qualitative and community…

Ankur Madan is an associate professor at Azim Premji University's School of Education, where she teaches the MA in Education program. Her primary research interests include Disability Studies and Creative Education. On our twentieth episode, we discuss the scope and nature of inclusive education in India. Catch us on Twitter or Instagram at @dtrrhp…

Sean Bock is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University's Department of Sociology and graduate affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He holds a BA Degree in Sociology and Political Science from Indiana University - Bloomington. His research uses quantitative and computational methods to study topics broadly related to political cul…

Charis E. Kubrin is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Washington, and is also a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network. Her research focuses on neighbourhood correlations with crime, especially looking at race an…

Daphne M. Penn is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Population Studies Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt Peabody College, an M.S. in Sociology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Education (with a concentration in Culture, Institutio…

Dr. Rebecca Gibson is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her published works include “Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact” (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) and “The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding” (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Her research areas of interest include cors…

Claude S. Fischer is a semi-retired professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Sociology. He holds undergraduate and PhD degrees from UCLA and Harvard respectively, and has worked for Berkeley's Sociology Department for nearly fifty years (having joined in 1972). He has published eight books which centre around the themes of urbanism, networking…

Dr. Jonathan Coley works at the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, USA. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Samford University, and M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Sociology from Vanderbilt university. His research focuses on social movements, politics, religion, education, sexuality and race. He also provided extensive editorial …

Nicolás Arenas is a current PhD student in sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests include cultural studies, economic sociology, sociology of the body and emotions, marketing, rationality and political theory. He has authored two publications, both of which are in Spanish. In this episode, we discuss his PhD disser…

Dr. Michael O. Johnston is an assistant professor of sociology from William Penn University, Iowa, USA. He holds B.A. degrees in sociology and psychology from Buena Vista University, an M.P.A. from Iowa State University, and a PhD in public administration from Walden University. His areas of specialisation include criminology, social problems, qual…

Jose Martin Aveldanes is a current third-year Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Last year (2020), he was was a National Institutes of Health Fellow in the Department of Demography under the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Branch for Child and Human Development Support. His research interests span the family, quantitative …

Dr. Shai Dromi is a lecturer at Harvard University's department of Sociology. He is a cultural and comparative-historical sociologist with research on international humanitarian organisations and movements, transnational advocacy, and political culture. His research looks at the role of religion and cultural beliefs in creating civil society organi…

Surbhi Shrivastava is a second-year PhD student in Sociology at Emory University, USA. Her research focuses on gender and health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and maternal health. Surbhi holds a Bachelor’s in Dental Surgery from Manipal University, India and an MPH in Health Policy, Economics and Finance from Tata Institute of Social …

Dr. Harriet Earle is a comics and pop culture scholar with a research focus on representations of violence and trauma in visual culture, particularly comics. She works as a senior lecturer of english and creative writing at the Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and is also a research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing …

Inga Popovaite is a PhD candidate at the department of sociology and criminology at the University of Iowa. She studies emotions, gender and status in space analog environments, which we discuss in this episode. She speaks Lithuanian, Russian, and a bit of Georgian and German. You can find out more about Inga's research on her website. Follow us on…

Dr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay is an assistant professor and the faculty coordinator at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). She holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, and has had her research published in journals including the Adoption Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, Journal of Cros…

Dr. Juhi Sidharth an assistant professor of public policy and gender studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She has engaged with the subject of gender and sexuality in her academic and professional life for the past ten years, and her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK investigates the lived experiences of sexuality of young wo…

Dr. Chaitanya Ravi is an assistant professor of Public Policy at Flame University, Pune, in India. He has taught energy policy, environmental policy, biology and microbiology at George Mason University, and environmental studies at New York University. His research interests at the intersection of energy policy, environmental policy, international …

Dr. Anup Tripathi is an assistant professor at Flame University in Pune, and holds Bachelor's degree in political science from University of Delhi and holds Master's and PhD degrees from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. He has been a visiting scholar at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and Roskilde University in Denmark, …

Dr. Tannistha Samanta is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research broadly lies at the interdisciplinary crossroads of family sociology and gerontology where she focuses on living arrangements, social capital and health, older adult sexualities and theory development in ageing s…