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2018-10-22

  Teacher Spotlight: Courtney Bell

In this episode, guest host Amber Joy chats with Courtney Bell, a high school teacher in North Minneapolis who was a candidate for the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award. In a recent article by the Star Tribune, Bell talks about her work teaching... 		  Office Hours author
2017-12-01

  Trevor Hoppe on Punishing Disease

In this episode, guest host Caty Taborda-Whitt sits down with Trevor Hoppe to discuss his new book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness, which looks at the public health response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The conversation focuses... 		  Office Hours author
2017-06-19

  Michael Schudson on The News Media

In this episode, guest host Wahutu talks to Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Michael Schudson about his new book The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know. The conversation focuses on the history of news as well as how the public makes ... 		  Office Hours author
2017-05-22

  Lisa Wade on American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus

In this episode, guest hosts Amber Powell and Allison Nobles talk to Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College Lisa Wade about her book American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. The conversation focuses on interrogating what ‘hook... 		  Office Hours author
2017-05-01

  Marianne Cooper on Families in Insecure Times

Stanford sociologist Marianne Cooper is a leading expert in the field of gender and family dynamics. Her latest book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, details her efforts to understand how families representing an array of social classes perceiv... 		  Office Hours author
  Marianne Cooper contributor
2017-04-14

  Theda Skocpol on the Koch Network

Our guest today is Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, and the director of the Scholar Strategy Network, a network of professors that seeks to improve public policy and strengthen democracy b... 		  Office Hours author
2017-03-20

  Mimi Schippers on Polyamory and Polyqueer Sexualities

In this episode, guest host Allison Nobles talks to Tulane professor Mimi Schippers about her book Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities. The book interrogates “compulsory monogamy”, or our cultural disposition towards bein... 		  Office Hours author
2017-02-27

  Sergio Chávez on Border Lives and Transnationalism

With the election of Donald Trump, much has been made about the construction of barriers to entry along the US border with Mexico. But while Trump has placed particular emphasis on the image of a wall designed to limit illegal movement across this bord... 		  Office Hours author
  Sergio Chávez contributor
2017-02-06

  Natasha Warikoo on The Diversity Bargain

In this episode, guest host Neeraj Rajasekar talks to Harvard professor Natasha Warikoo about her book The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities. The book centers on conversations with white st... 		  Office Hours author
2017-01-17

  Stephen Ellingson on Religious Environmentalism

In his new book, To Care for Creation: the Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement, Professor Stephen Ellingson explores new — and often localized — environmental activism among mainstream religious groups in the United States. Through interv... 		  Office Hours author
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