Tag: health

• May 3, 2025

  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…
• December 11, 2024

  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…
• November 29, 2024

  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…
• October 26, 2024

  SKAT Sessions at ASA 2025

  Please see the full call here: https://www.asanet.org/2025-annual-meeting/call-for-submissions/papers-extended-abstracts/section-sessions/ Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Challenging epistemic institutions: Unruly knowledge, outlaw technology, and fringe-mainstream relations  We live in epistemically challenged, and challenging, times. The status of various forms of knowledge continues to be contested, as many social actors compete for epistemic authority. Institutions of knowledge production are…
• December 12, 2018

  Reflection on 2018 Star Nelkin Award

  The Star Nelkin Award by Ruha Benjamin The 2018 Star Nelkin Prize committee (Santiago Molina, Michelle Smirnova, Justin Farrell, and Ruha Benjamin) received 17 submissions which included a wide variety of topics and methodologies, reflecting the vibrancy of SKAT! The committee gave an honorable mention to Angela Frederick for “Risky Mothers and the Normalcy Project: Women with Disabilities…