Interviewed on February 20, 2024 for the Spring 2024 SKAT Newsletter by Larry Au Book Cover courtesy of Columbia University Press 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 Digital Economy (Columbia University Press, 2023). Larry: Your book relies on such rich and incredible fieldwork, and it takes us all over China—from Beijing’s technology hub Zhongguancun to ..read more

Interviewed on February 23, 2024 by Larry Au for the SKAT Spring 2024 Newsletter Book Cover courtesy of CUP Catherine Tan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College. She is the author of Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge (Columbia University Press, 2024). Larry: First off, I really enjoyed reading the book! It is written with such an eye for detail and captures the voices of your many interlocutors very well. I could also see you in the field: chatting with NFL athletes, going to conference afterparties, observing doctor visits, etc ..read more

Cover courtesy of Chicago University Press 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 Morality, Volume II. Samuel D. Stabler is doctoral lecturer in the department of sociology at Hunter College, CUNY. Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (2023) is available through Chicago University Press. Larry: First off, I rea ..read more

Book Cover. Image Source: Princeton University Press. Interviewed by Zheng Fu on March 31, 2023 for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter Elizabeth Popp Berman is the Richard H. Price Professor of Organizational Studies and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine (Princeton University Press, 2012). Q: I want to discuss the relationship between “efficiency” and other ..read more

Interviewed by Larry Au on February 22, 2023 for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter Book Cover. Image Source: Stanford University Press. Oliver Rollins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain (Stanford, 2021). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco Q: I read in the preface that you once considered entering medicine, and after completing your Bachelor’s, you went on to pursue a MA in Pan-African Studies, before com ..read more

Interviewed on February 27, 2023 by Larry Au for the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter Image courtesy of UC Press 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: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicine (University of California Press, 2023) is available open access. Q: I wanted to start by talking about how you came to be interested in studying drug pricing. So ..read more

Interviewed by Larry Au on Nov 21, 2022 for the Fall 2022 issue of SKATOLOGY, award announcement below provided by Diane Vaughan Image courtesy of Chicago University Press Diane Vaughan‘s book, Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects and Risk (Chicago, 2021) has been selected for the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Prize, presented annually to the best original contribution to the field of aeronautical or astronautical non-fiction literature published in the last five years dealing with science, tech ..read more

Interviewed by Larry Au on November 4, 2022 for the Fall 2022 SKATOLOGY Newsletter Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute and a co-founder of the Computational Social Science program, as well as the Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program. He is the author of the recent book, The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (2022), published by Columbia University Press. He is ..read more