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Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
62 hours 26 mins; November 10, 2025
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
59 mins; November 09, 2025
Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
52 mins; November 09, 2025
Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr, "Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality" (U California Press, 2025)
46 mins; November 07, 2025
Russell T. McCutcheon, "Our Primary Expertise: A Future for the Study of Religion" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
53 mins; November 06, 2025
Christopher Nelson, "When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa" (Duke UP, 2025)
68 hours 0 mins; November 05, 2025
Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; October 31, 2025
Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)
77 hours 22 mins; October 31, 2025
Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)
58 mins; October 31, 2025
Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action​" (Haymarket, 2019)
43 mins; October 20, 2025
Nancy Newman, "Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
53 mins; October 18, 2025
Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)
59 mins; October 15, 2025
Mukul Sharma, "Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
43 mins; October 12, 2025
Naomi R. Williams, "A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 12, 2025
Chris Dalla Riva, "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
69 hours 42 mins; October 11, 2025
Walter Scott Peterson, "[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson" (William Carlos Williams Review, Vol 41, No. 2, 2024),
51 mins; October 11, 2025
Claire Whitlinger, "Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi" (UNC Press, 2020)
35 mins; October 10, 2025
Hannah Pool, "The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; October 07, 2025
Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
25 mins; October 06, 2025
John Mathias, "Uncommon Cause: Living for Environmental Justice in Kerala" (U California Press, 2024)
54 mins; October 05, 2025
Meredith L. Roman, "The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
54 mins; October 05, 2025
Bernadette C. Barton et al., "Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; October 05, 2025
Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg, "Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
38 mins; October 04, 2025
Michael Rowe, "Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions" (Routledge, 2024)
40 mins; October 01, 2025
Georgios Tsourous, "Orthodox Choreographies: Boundaries, Borders and Materiality in Jerusalem's Old City" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
64 hours 5 mins; September 30, 2025
Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 29, 2025
Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
80 hours 13 mins; September 29, 2025
Kolby Hanson, "Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; September 28, 2025
John L. Campbell, "Pay Up!: Conservative Myths about Tax Cuts for the Rich" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
34 mins; September 26, 2025
Jacinto Cuvi, "The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in SĂŁo Paulo" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
49 mins; September 24, 2025
Robert F. Carley, "Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice" (SUNY Press, 2019)
48 mins; September 23, 2025
Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
99 hours 40 mins; September 22, 2025
Tanja Petrovic, "Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army" (Duke UP, 2024)
43 mins; September 21, 2025
Joel Best, "Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims" (U California Press, 2025)
43 mins; September 20, 2025
Susan D. Stewart. "On the Rocks: Straight Talk about Women and Drinking" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
28 mins; September 20, 2025
Shakirah E. Hudani, "Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
38 mins; September 18, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 17, 2025
Katherine Eva Maich, "Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights" (Stanford UP, 2025)
48 mins; September 15, 2025
Kevin Passmore, "The Maginot Line: A New History of the Fall of France" (Yale UP, 2025)
66 hours 48 mins; September 13, 2025
Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 32 mins; September 12, 2025
Chelsi West Ohueri, "Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" (Cornell UP, 2025)
51 mins; September 11, 2025
Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe, "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
38 mins; September 10, 2025
May Friedman, "Fat Studies: The Basics" (Routledge, 2025)
23 mins; September 08, 2025
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 08, 2025
Ruth E. Toulson, "Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore" (U Washington Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 07, 2025
Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 04, 2025
Helen C. Epstein, "Why Live: An Anatomy of Suicide Epidemics" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
31 mins; September 03, 2025
Maddalena Cerrato, "Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes" (SUNY Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
Pauwke Berkers and Yosha Wijngaarden, "A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
33 mins; August 30, 2025
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
58 mins; August 28, 2025
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
57 mins; August 24, 2025
Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz, "100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World" (Indiana UP, 2024)
65 hours 22 mins; August 20, 2025
Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020)
70 hours 4 mins; August 20, 2025
Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage
41 mins; August 19, 2025
Todd Mcgowan, "Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity" (Columbia UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; August 18, 2025
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
73 hours 10 mins; August 16, 2025
Enrique Dussel, "The Theological Metaphors of Marx" (Duke UP, 2024)–A Conversation with Camilo PĂ©rez-Bustillo and Eduardo Mendieta
55 mins; August 16, 2025
Kate Herrity, "Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown" (Bristol UP, 2024)
67 hours 54 mins; August 16, 2025
Christopher R. Matthews, "Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-Between" (Routledge, 2025)
31 mins; August 15, 2025
Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture" (NYU Press, 2018)
45 mins; August 15, 2025
Matthew Facciani, "Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do about It" (Columbia UP, 2025)
30 mins; August 14, 2025
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)
63 hours 8 mins; August 13, 2025
Bryon L. Garner, "Black Veteranality: Military Service and the Illusion of Inclusive Patriotism" (Routledge, 2025)
56 mins; August 11, 2025
Alexandra Freidus, "Unequal Lessons: School Diversity and Educational Inequality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2025)
28 mins; August 10, 2025
Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
62 hours 14 mins; August 09, 2025
Nezar AlSayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen, "Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; August 08, 2025
Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration
25 mins; August 08, 2025
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
72 hours 16 mins; August 08, 2025
Zack Cooper, "Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries" (Yale UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 07, 2025
Sayd Randle, "Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2025)
51 mins; August 06, 2025
"Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsideration of how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation"
68 hours 59 mins; August 05, 2025
The Social Impact of Automating Translation
56 mins; August 03, 2025
Anand Pandian, "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down" (Stanford UP, 2025)
52 mins; August 03, 2025
Hannah Charnock, "Teenage intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England, 1950-80" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 02, 2025
Y. Kokosalakis and F. J. Leira-Castiñeira, "Violence and Propaganda in European Civil Wars" (Routledge, 2025)
54 mins; August 02, 2025
Yuki Kato, "Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City" (NYU Press, 2025)
69 hours 12 mins; August 01, 2025
Thomas M. Kemple, "Marx's Wager: Das Kapital and Classical Sociology" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
72 hours 0 mins; July 31, 2025
Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; July 30, 2025
Jess Reia, "Urban Music Governance: What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities" (Intellect, 2025)
35 mins; July 29, 2025
Shani Adia Evans, "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
33 mins; July 29, 2025
Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)
68 hours 7 mins; July 28, 2025
Teo Ballvé, "The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
43 mins; July 26, 2025
Mark R. Rank, "Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; July 26, 2025
Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
59 mins; July 26, 2025
Joseph O. Jewell, "White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
42 mins; July 25, 2025
Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025)
42 mins; July 22, 2025
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 19, 2025
Sabrina L. Hom, "Critical Mixed Race Philosophy: Rethinking Kinship and Identity" (Lexington Books, 2025)
90 hours 39 mins; July 19, 2025
Unveiling Entrepreneurial Identities: Perspectives from Women Entrepreneurs in the Global South, (JESB, 2025)
36 mins; July 14, 2025
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, "Bankers' Trust: How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse" (Cornell UP, 2025)
61 hours 58 mins; July 14, 2025
Tom Waidzunas et al., "Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times" (UMass Press, 2025)
67 hours 41 mins; July 11, 2025
Laurie Denyer Willis, "Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil" (U California Press, 2023)
48 mins; July 11, 2025
Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
61 hours 20 mins; July 10, 2025
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
67 hours 51 mins; July 08, 2025
Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)
70 hours 47 mins; July 08, 2025
Joseph Darda, "Gift and Grit: Race, Sports, and the Construction of Social Debt" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
73 hours 15 mins; July 07, 2025
S1.E7. Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
45 mins; July 07, 2025
Kelsea Best, Kayly Ober, Robert A. McLeman, "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
47 mins; July 06, 2025
Ezra Glinter, "Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah" (Yale UP, 2024)
69 hours 40 mins; July 05, 2025
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