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
Family Estrangement
Kristina Scharp discusses her research on how families fall apart.
Author-Nominated Peer Review
Author-nominated peer reviews are thought to be biased. Should we stop using them?
Upper-Middle Class American Parenting
Upper-middle class American parents have an intense parenting style, and it’s catching on.
Slow Peer Review
Sociology is slow to turn its journal articles around, which some argue hurts junior scholars. Is there an alternative?
Michelle Silver on Coping with Retirement
An interview with Michelle Silver (University of Toronto), author of Retirement and Its Discontents (Columbia).
Stanford Press Faced Cuts
Stanford University’s Provost recently threatened to cut Stanford University Press, describing the Press as a “second rate press.”
Chase Tweets Financial Advice
Chase tweets about personal financial responsibility, and it backfires.
The Pressure to Go Partisan
Do recent psych findings suggest why there’s a pressure to go partisan when doing public scholarship?
Cristobal Young on Millionaire Tax Flight
Cristobal Young explains that the rich do not move when you raise their taxes.
