Q&A
Interviews with fascinating people with interesting stories to tell.
Talking Happiness, Security, and Counterinsurgency with Laleh Khalili
Steven W. Thrasher looks to a security expert’s insights to consider protest, politics, and policing. Read More“Context is Everything”
The Internet has facilitated a proliferation of restaurant criticism. Sites that crowd-source reviews, independent blogs, and social media platforms allow all-comers to publicly evaluate restaurants. Read MoreMarrying Social Activism and Spiritual Seeking
Elizabeth Lesser Elizabeth Lesser is the cofounder of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY, one of the nation’s first … Read More“Honey, Your Name Looks Great in Lights”
Zarela Martinez is one of America’s top culinary professionals, cookbook authors, and television personalities. Martinez was a trailblazer in the male-dominated culinary world, succeeding … Read MoreContextualizing Cambodia
Chhe, courtesy globalchildren.org. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge overthrew the government of Cambodia. Over the next four years, the communist political party embarked on … Read MorePioneering Digital Sociology
Jessie Daniels researches racial inequality and is a leader in reimagining scholarly communication in the digital era. Since the mid-1990s she has studied how social … Read MoreRevolutionizing Food And Space
Is it possible to develop diversified, sustainable agriculture in cities? Will Allen believes that it is. In 1995 he founded Growing Power, Inc., based on … Read MoreBeyond Critics And Apologists
Professor Emeritus, Armand Mauss, talks with sociologist Jodi O'Brien about his experiences as a Mormon and a sociologist. Read MoreBitter Ironies of History
Former Budapest mayor Gábor Demszky talks with scholar James Jasper about his life as a publisher of samizdat literature before 1989, and his life as mayor afterward. Demszky also grimly assesses Hungary's future under Fidesz. Read MoreChanging Men In South Africa
Sociologist Shari L. Dworkin interviews Dean Peacock, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sonke Gender Justice (a South-African NGO). This interview attempts to flesh out the ways in which men are critical points of engagement and active agents in reducing violence and minimizing the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The ways in which social science thinking has inspired Sonke's "One Man Can Campaign" is explored, along with the program and policy impact of Sonke's numerous innovative "gender-transformative" projects. Read More