Tag: interview

• December 12, 2025

  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…
• December 9, 2025

  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…
• July 31, 2024

  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…
• March 9, 2024

  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…
• 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…
• 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:…
• December 13, 2022

  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,…