Author: Larry

• February 26, 2024

  Q&A with Catherine Tan, author of Spaces on the Spectrum

  Interviewed on February 23, 2024 by Larry Au for the SKAT Spring 2024 Newsletter Catherine Tan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College. She is the author of Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge (Columbia University Press, 2024). Larry: First off, I really enjoyed reading the book!…
• October 23, 2023

  Virtual Authors Meet Readers Event: Decolonize Self-Care

  Please join us for a SKAT Virtual Authors Meet Readers Event next month! The event will be held on Friday, November 17, 5:00pm-6:30pm ET (note updated time from the save-the-date announcement). The book: Decolonize Self-Care  Authors: Alyson Spurgas and Zoë Meleo-Erwin Readers: Kelly Moore, Sheena Sood, and Catherine Tan See our event website for additional…
• October 2, 2023

  Q&A with Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, authors of Moral Minefields

  Interviewed on September 27, 2023 by Larry Au for the Fall 2023 SKAT Newsletter Shai M. Dromi is associate senior lecturer on sociology at Harvard University. He is also the author of Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector and coeditor of the Handbook of the Sociology of…
• August 11, 2023

  Meet Our Student Members!

  Compiled by Nicole Foti for the Summer 2023 SKAT Newsletter Here are some of the student members of the SKAT section. Learn more about their research interests from their introductions below. Emma Brandt Emma Brandt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. She is currently writing a dissertation about media…
• August 5, 2023

  In Memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023)

  By Cristian Morales, for the Summer 2023 SKAT Newsletter The 50th anniversary edition of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions opens with an introductory essay by Ian Hacking, with the first line he writes reading “Great books are rare. This is one. Read it and you will see.” and his final line reading “……
• August 2, 2023

  Reflections on the Job Market: Recent Experiences from SKAT Members

  By Nicole Foti, for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter In this article, SKAT members Dr. Santiago Molina and Dr. Aaron Panofsky are interviewed about their experiences with the SKAT job market. Dr. Molina recently navigated the hiring process as an applicant. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Science in Human…
• April 24, 2023

  Q&A with Elizabeth Popp Berman, author of Thinking Like an Economist

  Interviewed by Zheng Fu on March 31, 2023 for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter Elizabeth Popp Berman is the Richard H. Price Professor of Organizational Studies and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (Princeton University Press,…
• April 19, 2023

  New Publications from Section Members (2022-2023)

  The following are new publications submitted by ASA SKAT Section members to be included in the Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Summer 2023 newsletters. Please feel free to reach out to us (lau1@ccny.cuny.edu) to be included on this list. See also our New Books Q&A series where we conduct interviews with recent authors. New Articles…
• April 18, 2023

  Q&A with Oliver Rollins, author of Conviction

  Interviewed by Larry Au on February 22, 2023 for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter Oliver Rollins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain (Stanford, 2021). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from…
• March 29, 2023

  Q&A with Victor Roy, author of Capitalizing on a Cure

  Interviewed on February 27, 2023 by Larry Au for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter Victor Roy, MD, PhD, is a family physician and sociologist, and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s National Clinician Scholars Program. His work touches on the political economy of health technologies and health equity. His recent book, Capitalizing a Cure:…