By Paul Hedges, author of Understanding Religion: Theories and Methods for Studying Religiously Diverse Societies Almost seven years ago, I started a new job at a Graduate School specialising in International Relations …
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Read More >By Kimberly Hannon Teal, author of Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History In some ways, it’s completely unremarkable that pianist Fred Hersch spent his 66th birthday earlier this October recording …
Read More >A past ASA President and award-winning author, Christine Williams is one of the most influential sociologists researching gender inequality and work. In this interview, Christine discusses what she learned while writing her new book, …
Read More >By Jesse Wozniak, author of Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State During my first research trip to the Lead Police Training Academy on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, …
Read More >By Daniel Martinez HoSang, author of A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone Veteran’s Day in the US is an unremarkable affair. Football players and coaches adorned …
Read More >Out today, The Trouble with Passion probes the ominous side of career advice to “follow your passion.” This data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, …
Read More >By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure One of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving …
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Read More >We’re proud to share that author Jennifer Holland has won been awarded three prestigious awards from the Western History Association for her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement! …
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