As a disciplinary service and public sociology project, I run the Sociocast Project, which produces academic sociology podcasts and develops resources to promote podcasting in our discipline. As of Spring 2019, our catalog received an average of rouhgly 500 daily listens.
Our flagship show is The Annex, co-hosted by me and two grad school friends working at UCLA and Georgetown. It is a lighthearted banter and interview show about academic sociology. The show is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, and Radio Free Public.
Podcast Episodes
Communicating the Limits of Our Knowledge
We discuss whether social scientists do enough to communicate the limits of their knowledge in public debate.
Mesearch and Auto-Ethnography
“Mesearch” and “autoethnography”, and their legitimacy as a criticism of research.
Amazon HQ2
A discussion about Amazon HQ2 in New York, with Sharon Zukin and Miriam Greenberg.
Bart Bonikowski on Nationalism
An interview with Harvard University’s Bart Bonikowski about his work on the concept of nationalism.
Taxing the Rich
We discuss a viral speech by a Dutch writer at Davos, which argues that talk about the need to raise taxes on the rich.
Howard Schultz for President?
We discuss Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s recent announcement that he is running for President in 2020.
Duke Letter to Chinese Students
We discuss a Duke University grad program director’s letter to Chinese students advising them not to speak Chinese at school.
Are Academics Affected by Leaving Home?
Dan Hirschman asks whether the need to move away for faculty jobs affects our collective worldview.
