Category: New Books Q&A
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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…
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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…
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Q&A with Diane Vaughan, Author of Dead Reckoning
Dead Reckoning is an historical ethnography of the life course of the air traffic control system from system emergence through 2017. Based on archival research and fieldwork in four air traffic control facilities, the book focuses on how historical institutional conditions, assemblages of social actors, and events in the system’s external environment – political, economic, technical,…
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Q&A with Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Author of The Quantified Scholar
Interviewed by Larry Au on November 4, 2022 for the Fall 2022 SKATOLOGY Newsletter Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute and a co-founder of the Computational Social Science program, as well as…
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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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