Category: New Books Q&A
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SKAT New Books Q&A with Diana Graizbord, author of Indicators of Democracy
Interviewed by Jorge Ochoa on November 25, 2025 Diana Graizbord is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. Graizbord is currently a Visiting…
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Q&A with Ulises A. Mejias, co-author of Data Grab
Interviewed by Jeba Humayra Prithwi on October 30, 2025. Ulises A. Mejias is a professor in the Communication Studies department at SUNY Oswego and a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship. His research interests include critical data studies, philosophy and sociology of technology, and political economy of digital media. He’s on…
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Q&A with Lauren Olsen, author of Curricular Injustice
Interviewed by Hayden J. Fulton on February 28th, 2025 Lauren D. Olsen, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University. She is the author of Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities (Columbia University Press 2024). Hayden: To start off, I was wondering if you’d be able to speak to how you…
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Q&A with Ya-Wen Lei, author of The Gilded Cage
Interviewed by Jorge Ochoa on March 7, 2025 Ya-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, and is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is the author of The Gilded Cage: Techno-State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2003) and…
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Q&A with Andrew Lakoff, Author of Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Interviewed by Molly Clark-Barol on December 2, 2024 Andrew Lakoff is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Planning for the Wrong Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge (Polity 2024). Molly: Thanks so much for chatting, Andy. I just wanted to let you know…
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Q&A with Natalie Aviles author of An Ungovernable Foe
Interviewed by Hayden Fulton on November 18th, 2024 Natalie B. Aviles is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of An Ungovernable Foe: Science and Policy Innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute (Columbia University Press 2024). Hayden: Throughout the book, you make a strong mandate on why…
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Q&A with Benjamin Shestakofsky, author of Behind the Startup
Interviewed by Larry Au on May 3, 2024 for the Summer Newsletter Benjamin Shestakofsky is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is affiliated with AI at Wharton and the Center on Digital Culture and Society. He is the author of Behind the Startup: How Ventural Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and…
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Q&A with Lin Zhang, author of The Labor of Reinvention
Interviewed on February 20, 2024 for the Spring 2024 SKAT Newsletter by Larry Au Lin Zhang is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of New Hampshire, focusing on critical innovation studies, knowledge, and digital labor and intersectionality. She is the author of The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese…
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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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