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2024 Giving Tuesday Campaign
In 2020, our section founded two awards—the Wells-Duster and Emancipatory Practice Awards—which are intended to foster and elevate essential work in our subfield. The first recognizes outstanding scholarship from early-career scholars that advances understanding of Black, African American, or Indigenous intersections with science, knowledge, and technology. The second recognizes anti-racist social action within our subfield…
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Adele E. Clarke Dies at 78; Leader in Sociology and Women’s Health
by Monica J. Casper Dr. Adele E. Clarke, an internationally known sociologist and women’s health scholar, died on January 19, 2024 in San Francisco. She was 78. Throughout her long, refreshingly nonlinear career, Clarke made substantial contributions to sociology, the history of medicine, qualitative methodologies, science and technology studies (STS), women’s health, and reproductive studies.…
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#SKAT650 Membership Drive 2023-2024
From the SKAT Membership Committee: Emma Brandt, Madeleine Pape (Chair), Argun Saatcioglu, Torsten Voigt Can SKAT be a 650-member section? We think it can! The SKAT section is currently only 40 members short of the magic threshold of 600 members, which would give the section four sessions at the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco…
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Q&A with Alka V. Menon, author of Refashioning Race
Interviewed by Zheng Fu on November 13, 2023 for the Fall 2023 SKAT Newsletter Alka V. Menon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and the author of Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards (University of California Press, 2023). Zheng: I want to start with the question about the (perception…
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Me and ChatGPT
This is a post by Dr. Deana A. Rohlinger for the Fall 2023 Newsletter In Spring 2023, a feeling of existential dread overcame me every time I looked at education news. You probably saw similar headlines: I teach a large online, upper division, writing intensive course titled New Media and Social Change. How was I…
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Agency and Action: Using Project-Based Pedagogy to Give Undergraduates More Control Over their Studies
This is a post by Dr. Juliette Wilson-Thomas for the Fall 2023 Newsletter Caption: Street art project with children from a local primary school painting a mural on their school wall in Manchester. Picture Source Juliette Wilon-Thomas Since former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s vow to get 50% of young people into university in 1999…
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Q&A with Janet Vertesi, Author of Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams
Professor Vertesi specializes in the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology. Her primary research site is with NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams as an ethnographer. Her books, Seeing like a Rover: Images and Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (Chicago, 2015) and Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams (Chicago, 2020) draws on…
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Q&A with Kathleen (Casey) Oberlin, Author of Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life
Kathleen C. Oberlin is a researcher based in Chicago. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Grinnell College. In Creating the Creation Museum, Kathleen C. Oberlin shows us how the largest Creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG), built a museum—which has had over three million visitors—to make its movement mainstream. She…
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Q&A with Jeremiah Morelock, Author of Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction
Jeremiah Morelock is an instructor of sociology at Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences and Woods College of Advancing Studies, and a Project Coordinator at Boston College’s Connell School of Nursing. He is the editor of Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism and How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School. With…
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Q&A with Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Author of Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum
Fernando Domínguez Rubio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego who situates his research around the outer rims of sociology, science and technology studies, anthropology, art, design and architecture. His book, Still Life, offers a comprehensive and intriguing ethnographic account of the conundrums that museum workers face when…
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