Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNatasha L. Mikles, "Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 227
The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hosp…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 85
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approac…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 525
Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Episode 75
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rem…
1 year, 10 months ago
Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 46
Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible.…
1 year, 10 months ago
Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 130
Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who…
1 year, 10 months ago
Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 370
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still ca…
1 year, 10 months ago
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Episode 83
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Beacon Press, 2023) is an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings…
1 year, 10 months ago
Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic
Episode 24
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion cl…
1 year, 10 months ago
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 367
The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world'…
1 year, 10 months ago