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Down The Research Rabbit HoleChristianity, Democracy & Trump ft. Philip GorskiPhilip Gorsky is a comparative-historical sociologist from Yale University. His areas of research interest and focus include state formation, nationalism, revolutionism, economic development and secularization, with a special emphasis on religion and politics. You can find out more about Philip’s work on Yale’s Sociology department website.
In this episode, we discuss his publication, American Babylon: Christianity Before and After Trump.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2022-02-1449 minDown The Research Rabbit HolePlay, Fitness & Ageing ft. Jason PagaduanJason Pagaduan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include race and ageing.
In this episode, we discuss his dissertation topic Mall Walking: Community, Pleasure, and Self-Preservation Among Racialized Older Adults.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2022-01-3046 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleInterclass Downward Mobility ft. Jessi StreibJessi Streib is an assistant professor of sociology at Duke University. Her research looks at the experiences, reproduction, and alleviation of social class, all of which are a common thread throughout her publications. You can find out more about Jessi’s work on her website.
In this episode, we discuss her publication, Privilege Lost: Who Leaves the Upper Middle Class and How They Fall.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2022-01-2342 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleCreativity, Cognition and Music ft. Taylor PriceTaylor Price is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto’s department of sociology. His key areas of expertise include cultural sociology, sociological theory, quantitative research methods. You can find out more about Taylor's work on his website.
In this episode, we discuss his PhD dissertation which looks at changes in the music production process with time, the role of technology, and what easier and widespread access to music has done for musicians and listeners.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2022-01-1742 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleStatus Hierarchies ft. Fabien AccominottiFabien Accominotti is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research broadly lies at the intersections of cultural and economic sociology and stratification. You can find out more about Fabien on his UW-Madison Department of Sociology profile or on his personal website.
In this episode, we discuss his co-authored publication The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2022-01-0946 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleSiblings and Educational Advantage ft. Christian SmithChristian Smith is a postdoctoral scholar in sociology at the University of California Merced and holds a PhD in the same from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of research interest include inequality, mobility, and the sociology of education. You can find out more about Christian on his website or on his UWisconsin-Madison profile.
In this episode, we discuss his paper, In the Footsteps of Siblings: College Attendance Disparities and the Intragenerational Transmission of Educational Advantage.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2022-01-0351 minDown The Research Rabbit HolePune's Smart City Mission ft. Poonam GandhiPoonam Gandhi is a sociologist and professor at FLAME University’s Department of Sociology. Her areas of research interest include art and culture, gender and human relations. You can find out more about Poonam on FLAME University's faculty page.
In this episode, we discuss her co-authored publication Museums and Heritage Sites — The Missing Link in Smart City Planning: A Case Study of Pune City, India.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2021-12-2851 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleChinatown ft. Min ZhouMin Zhou is a distinguished professor of Sociology and Asian-American studies at UCLA. She also holds positions of the Walter & Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations & Communications and Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre at the university. Her areas of research interest include Asia and Asia-America, migration and development (particularly Chinese diasporas) and urban sociology. You can head over to Min’s website or her UCLA faculty profile page to know more.
In this episode, we discuss her publication Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for up...2021-12-2343 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleJamaica's Diasporic Real Estate Market ft. James BraunJames Braun is an economic sociologist and lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Department of Sociology. His areas of research interest include financialization, the sociology of markets and diaspora-making. You can find his publications on his academia.edu page or catch him on the Twitter handle @jbrauneconsoc.
In this episode, we discuss his PhD thesis Local Culture and the Problem of Coordination: The Case of Jamaica’s Diasporic Real Estate Market.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2021-12-1956 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleExperts and Expertise ft. Gil EyalGil Eyal is an author and professor of sociology affiliated with Columbia University. His broad research interests encompass sociological work around science, medicine, professions, knowledge and intellectuals, which he broadly calls ‘the sociology of expertise’. He has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences (US & Canada). You can find out more about Gil on his Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Directory Page or his faculty profile on Columbia’s Sociology Department website.
In this episode, we discuss his book The Crisis of Expertise.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates.2021-12-1554 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleAdverse Childhood Experiences ft. Jose Eos TrinidadJose Eos Trinidad is a doctoral student (2020) at the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology and is currently pursuing a joint PhD in Sociology and Comparative Human Development. His areas of research interest include organizational sociology, educational policy, and quantitative methods, and his research has been published in 20+ journals including Social Science and Medicine, the International Journal of Educational Development, and Studies in Educational Evaluation, among others. You can find out more about Eos and his research on UChicago's Sociology Department directory.
In this episode, we discuss his publication, Social Consequences and Contexts of Adverse Childhood Experiences.2021-11-1649 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleThe Funny Thing About Humour ft. Adam Valen LevinsonTW: mentions of death, suicide and dark humour
Adam Valen Levinson is the author of the nonfiction novel The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W. W. Norton, 2017) — dubbed "Eat, Pray, Laugh" by The New York Times but/and not without its controversy. Morgan Parker, the National Book Critics Circle award winner for poetry, called him "an incredibly generous, compassionate, and thorough writer who gorgeously blends lyricism with reportage and philosophy with a confession." Adam has written, filmed, and photographed for Al Jazeera, The Paris Review, Haaretz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and VICE, and done college stints at the Meccas of real...2021-11-071h 05Down The Research Rabbit HolePatchwork Cities ft. Marco GarridoMarco Garrido is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. His work broadly looks at the relationship between the urban poor and middle class in Manila, and particularly how it shapes politics, urban spaces and social life. His work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Qualitative Sociology, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
His book The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are connected and thus helps us make similar connections in other cases. It shows class as a social structure...2021-11-0550 minDown The Research Rabbit HolePolicing and State Violence ft. Kimberly BurkeKimberly Burke is a PhD student in Sociology from UC Berkeley (anticipated graduation 2023). She holds MA and BA degrees in women's studies from San Diego State University and Duke University respectively and has worked at UCLA's Centre for Police Equity (CPE) for four years. Her areas of research interest include Policing, State Violence, Inequality, Criminal Justice, Feminist Theory.
On this episode, we discuss her research on police brutality and the lived realities of policing.
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Down The Research Rabbit HoleAmbulance Crews ft. Josh SeimJosh Seim is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He is broadly interested in the governance of poverty and suffering, which has thus led him into the sociologies of medicine, punishment, and labour. His work has appeared in American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods and Research, Punishment and Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and Teaching Sociology, among other outlets. You can find out more about Josh's work on USC's faculty page.
In this episode, we discuss his book, Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Cr...2021-10-2350 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleHigh School Debates, Cultural Capital and Snacks ft. Karlyn GorskiKarlyn Gorski is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) at the University of Chicago's sociology department. Her research focuses on high school students in and around Chicago, and she is especially interested in youths' strategies for navigating the structures of schooling. You can find out more about Karlyn's work on her Linkedin profile.
In this episode, we discuss her publication titled My Voice Matters: High School Debaters’ Acquisition of Dominant and Adaptive Cultural Capital, and briefly touch upon her recent research on the curbing of snack-selling at schools.
Catch us on the...2021-10-1852 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleAssamese Mobile Theatre ft. Rituparna PatgiriDr. Rituparna Patgiri teaches Sociology at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and holds a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology, an independent, women-led academic blog dedicated to promoting sociological content. Her areas of research interest include food, gender, culture, media, and the public. You can take a look at Rituparna's publications on her Google Scholar page, and follow her on the Twitter handle @Rituparna37.
On this episode, we discuss her dissertation on the art of mobile theatre in the Indian...2021-10-1144 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleBritain's Indian Diaspora ft. Divya BalanDr. Divya Balan is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She holds Doctorate, Masters and M.Phil degrees in International Studies, and is a political science graduate. Her areas of teaching and research interest include the disciplinary histories of International Studies and European Studies, international migration and migration policies, Indian diasporic communities, Gulf migration, and Kerala studies. You can find about more about Divya on Flame University's faculty page.
On this episode, we discuss her doctoral thesis, Immigrants Integration Policies in Britain: A Study of Indian Immigrants Incorporation 2000-2010, in tandem with her g...2021-10-0857 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleQueer Cruising and Surveillance ft. Kyle ShupeKyle Shupe is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, and is also the managing editor of Social Problems, the official publication for the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He holds an MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati and a BA in Sociology from Bowling Green State University, with minors in Sexuality Studies and Political Science. His areas of research interest include queer men's sexual identities, communities, and practices as well as the social organisation of desire. You can find out more about Kyle on the University of...2021-09-2846 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleMilitarisation of Kashmir ft. Niharika PanditNiharika Pandit is a PhD candidate at the Department of Gender Studies from the London School of Economics (LSE). She holds an MA in Gender Studies as a Felix Scholar from SOAS, University of London and a bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Journalism from Sophia College, Mumbai. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, sexuality, anti-colonial and anti-militarist feminist thought, and the politics of representation.
On this episode, we discuss her PhD on everyday politics and practices of living under military occupation in the Kashmir valley. As a feminist researcher, she uses feminist, an...2021-09-2450 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleManifestations of Religious Authority ft. Jeffrey GuhinJeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of Sociology at UCLA. He holds an MA and MPhil degrees in Sociology from Yale University, and his research interests include education, culture, religion, and theory. You can find out more about Jeffrey's work on his website.
On this episode, we discuss his first book, Agents of God: Boundaries of Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 2021-09-2045 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleMental Illness and Involuntary Treatment ft. Alex BarnardAlex Barnard is an assistant professor of Sociology at New York University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Sociology from Princeton University. His areas of research interest include Medical Sociology and Mental Health, Political Sociology, Comparative Cultural Sociology, Social Policy, Social Theory. You can find out more about Alex's work on his website.
On this episode, we discuss his book project, Mental States (under contract with Colombia University Press), which looks into how medical and governmental institutions m...2021-09-1745 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleGender and Migration ft. Marion LieutaudMarion Lieutaud is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE). Her areas of interest include gender, migration, quantitative methods, welfare states and border states. You can read about Marion's published work and research in more detail on LSE's Sociology page.
On this episode, we discuss her dissertation, Gender through Migration, Migration through Gender.
Catch us on the Twitter handle @DTRRHpodcast for further updates. 2021-09-1443 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleCollege Majors and Gender ft. Esha ChatterjeeEsha Chatterjee is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University's Department of Sociology specialising in the study of social inequality in the US. She holds an MA and BA degrees in Sociology from Stanford University, USA, and Presidency College, Kolkata, India, respectively. Her research interests include economic sociology, immigration, race and ethnicity, and social inequality and stratification. You can find out more about Esha on Stanford's Sociology Department Page.
On this episode, we discuss Esha's dissertation topic on how college majors influence gender segregation and income inequality in occupations.
Follow us on Twitter at the ha...2021-09-1039 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleGender and Cinema ft. Bindu MenonDr. Bindu Menon is a faculty member at Azim Premji University's School of Arts and Sciences, where she teaches Media and Communication. She holds a PhD in Cinema and Cultural Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her teaching interests include Media Theory, Film and Cultural Studies, Cultures of Journalism, Gender and Sexuality and Digital Humanities. She has won numerous fellowships and research grants, some of which are the Fulbright research scholarship at Pennsylvania State University (2003), Charles Wallace Archival Grant (2007) Sarai Fellowship (2005), Spear Grant for Archival research (2010) and the UGC Junior Research Fellowship. You can find out more about Bi...2021-09-0741 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleDrug Policy ft. Michael RosinoMichael L. Rosino is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Molloy College. His research and teaching focus on racial politics, media, social movements, crime, law and deviance, and human rights. His work emphasizes social change, policy, and community and civic engagement. He has published widely on the connections between racial oppression, struggles for racial equality, political conflicts, debates over public policy, and everyday social life in various scholarly and public outlets. His current research examines how activists within progressive grassroots political organizations engage with racial and political inequality through their identities, habits, and political strategies. The project illuminates the possibilities...2021-09-0259 min
Down The Research Rabbit HoleDisability and Sexuality ft. Alan MartinoDr. Alan Martino (he/him) is a faculty member in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. His main research interests are in critical disability studies, gender and sexualities; feminist and critical disability studies theories; qualitative and community-based research (particularly participatory and inclusive research methodologies). His doctoral research examined the romantic and sexual lives of adults with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada, by putting into conversation theories from both the sociology of sexualities and the field of critical disability studies. You can find out more about Alan's...2021-08-2950 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleInclusive Education ft. Ankur MadanAnkur Madan is an associate professor at Azim Premji University's School of Education, where she teaches the MA in Education program. Her primary research interests include Disability Studies and Creative Education. On our twentieth episode, we discuss the scope and nature of inclusive education in India.
Catch us on Twitter or Instagram at @dtrrhpodcast for updates. 2021-08-2650 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleConflicted Religionists ft. Sean BockSean Bock is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University's Department of Sociology and graduate affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He holds a BA Degree in Sociology and Political Science from Indiana University - Bloomington. His research uses quantitative and computational methods to study topics broadly related to political culture and social change, and recent work focuses on public political polarisation, within-party variation in socio-political attitudes, political behavior, and nationalism in the United States and Western Europe. You can find out more about Sean's work on his website.
In our latest episode, we discuss h...2021-08-231h 06Down The Research Rabbit HoleRap and Crime ft. Charis KubrinCharis E. Kubrin is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Washington, and is also a member of the Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network. Her research focuses on neighbourhood correlations with crime, especially looking at race and violent crime. One of her lines of research explores the intersection of music, culture, and social identity, particularly as it applies to hip hop and youth of colour in disadvantaged communities, which we broadly discuss on this episode.
You can...2021-08-1952 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleEducational Inequality in the USA ft. Daphne M. PennDaphne M. Penn is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Population Studies Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt Peabody College, an M.S. in Sociology from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Education (with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society) from Harvard University. She was also a Harvard Presidential Scholar. Her research focuses on the roots of racialised inequality in the United States, and the politics of ethno-racial stratification within the context of demographic change, specifically looking at the roles of...2021-08-1541 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleRobots, Artificial Intelligence and Desire ft. Rebecca GibsonDr. Rebecca Gibson is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her published works include “Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact” (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) and “The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding” (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Her research areas of interest include corsets, skeletal anthropology, biological anthropology, science fiction and artificial intelligence. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University, and when not writing or teaching can be found reading mystery novels amidst a pile of stuffed animals. You can take a look at Rebecca's research on her Google S...2021-08-1147 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleIndia's Cow Protection Discourse ft. Ridhima SharmaRidhima Sharma is an incoming PhD scholar at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto and recipient of the Connaught Fellowship. She completed her MPhil titled Rethinking the Cow Protection Movement: Gender, Caste and Labour at a Gaushala in Contemporary Haryana’ at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has taught asa Visiting Faculty at Savitribai Phule Pune University and Flame University, Pune. Her research interests include anthropology of religion, feminist theory and methodology, caste and brahminism,nationalism, ethnography, oral histories, sexuality studies and ethnographic filmmaking. Her recent publications inclu...2021-08-0753 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleAmerican Society Over Time ft. Claude FischerClaude S. Fischer is a semi-retired professor at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Sociology. He holds undergraduate and PhD degrees from UCLA and Harvard respectively, and has worked for Berkeley's Sociology Department for nearly fifty years (having joined in 1972). He has published eight books which centre around the themes of urbanism, networking, communication, inequality and family life in American society. He was also the founding editor of Contexts, the American Sociological Association's magazine of sociology for the general reader, 2001 - 2004. Fischer has won multiple awards and nominations over the course of his tenure, some of which include the 1986 Distinguished...2021-08-0449 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleGay on God's Campus ft. Jonathan ColeyDr. Jonathan Coley works at the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University, USA. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Samford University, and M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Sociology from Vanderbilt university. His research focuses on social movements, politics, religion, education, sexuality and race. He also provided extensive editorial service to the discipline, including through past work as editorial associate of American Sociological Review and book review editor of Work and Occupations. He currently serves as the deputy editor of The Sociological Quarterly. You can find out more about Jonathan's research on his website.
...2021-08-0147 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleBranding Consultants, Marketing and Emotions ft. Nicolás ArenasNicolás Arenas is a current PhD student in sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE). His research interests include cultural studies, economic sociology, sociology of the body and emotions, marketing, rationality and political theory. He has authored two publications, both of which are in Spanish. In this episode, we discuss his PhD dissertation topic, Mediating the Non-Rational: Branding Consultants and the Role of Emotions in Marketing.
To know more about Nicolas's research, you can take a look at his page on the LSE Sociology Department website.
Follow us on Twitter or Instagram on the...2021-07-2852 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleTulip Queens ft. Michael O. JohnstonDr. Michael O. Johnston is an assistant professor of sociology from William Penn University, Iowa, USA. He holds B.A. degrees in sociology and psychology from Buena Vista University, an M.P.A. from Iowa State University, and a PhD in public administration from Walden University. His areas of specialisation include criminology, social problems, qualitative methods, juvenile delinquency, and marriage. In this episode, we discuss his publication: The Tulip Queen and Her Royal Court: A Content Analysis of Doing Gender at a Tulip Queen Pageant.
He is also the host of the New Books in Sociology Podcast, a...2021-07-2443 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleSame Sex Parenthood ft. Jose AveldanesJose Martin Aveldanes is a current third-year Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Last year (2020), he was was a National Institutes of Health Fellow in the Department of Demography under the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Branch for Child and Human Development Support. His research interests span the family, quantitative and computational methods, sexuality, social demography, stratification and inequality, and culture. You can take a look at Jose's profile and research on the UC Berkeley Sociology page.
In this episode, we discuss his research on the well-being of same-sex parents in the USA.
...2021-07-2254 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleConstructing Sociological Knowledge ft. Shai DromiDr. Shai Dromi is a lecturer at Harvard University's department of Sociology. He is a cultural and comparative-historical sociologist with research on international humanitarian organisations and movements, transnational advocacy, and political culture. His research looks at the role of religion and cultural beliefs in creating civil society organisations and movements, and in shaping the production of social knowledge. Shai is currently co-authoring the book Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science, under an advance contract with the University of Chicago Press, which we discuss in this episode. You can find out more about Shai and his research on his w...2021-07-1842 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleObstetric Violence ft. Surbhi ShrivastavaSurbhi Shrivastava is a second-year PhD student in Sociology at Emory University, USA. Her research focuses on gender and health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and maternal health. Surbhi holds a Bachelor’s in Dental Surgery from Manipal University, India and an MPH in Health Policy, Economics and Finance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Previously, she has worked in public health research at non-profit organisations in Mumbai and Delhi. In this episode, we discuss her fieldwork and research in the area of obstetric violence in India. You can take a look at Surbhi's research on her Goo...2021-07-151h 01
Down The Research Rabbit HoleDiscussing obstetric violence with Surbhi ShrivastavaSurbhi Shrivastava is a second-year PhD student in Sociology at Emory University, USA. Her research focuses on gender and health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and maternal health. Surbhi holds a Bachelor’s in Dental Surgery from Manipal University, India and an MPH in Health Policy, Economics and Finance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Previously, she has worked in public health research at non-profit organisations in Mumbai and Delhi. In this episode, we discuss her research on obstetric violence in healthcare, particularly in India.
You can find Surbhi's google scholar page here: https://sc...2021-07-101h 01Down The Research Rabbit HoleComics and Trauma ft. Harriet EarleDr. Harriet Earle is a comics and pop culture scholar with a research focus on representations of violence and trauma in visual culture, particularly comics. She works as a senior lecturer of english and creative writing at the Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and is also a research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing University in Canada. She is the author of Comics: An Introduction (2020), and Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017). In this episode, we discuss the latter publication. You can find out more about Harriet's work in detail on her faculty...2021-07-0552 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleGender in Space Analog Settings ft. Inga PopovaiteInga Popovaite is a PhD candidate at the department of sociology and criminology at the University of Iowa. She studies emotions, gender and status in space analog environments, which we discuss in this episode. She speaks Lithuanian, Russian, and a bit of Georgian and German. You can find out more about Inga's research on her website.
Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at the handle @DTRRHpodcast for updates. 2021-07-0246 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleAgeing of Older Indians ft. Jagriti GangopadhyayDr. Jagriti Gangopadhyay is an assistant professor and the faculty coordinator at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). She holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, and has had her research published in journals including the Adoption Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Springer, Sage, and Ageing International and Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, among others. Her research interests include social gerontology, family sociology and medical sociology.
In this episode, we discuss her publication: Culture, Context and Ageing of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Be...2021-06-2534 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleRomance in Mumbai's Slum Areas ft Juhi SidharthDr. Juhi Sidharth an assistant professor of public policy and gender studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She has engaged with the subject of gender and sexuality in her academic and professional life for the past ten years, and her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, UK investigates the lived experiences of sexuality of young women from the slums of Mumbai. Her broad research interests cover gender, sexuality and relationships education, intersectionality, modernity, identity and development.
In this episode, we discuss her PhD dissertation, concerning how Mumbai's young slum-dwelling girls navigate dating, intimacy and romance.
...2021-06-2238 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleThe 1971 Bangladesh War and Climate Refugees ft. Chaitanya RaviDr. Chaitanya Ravi is an assistant professor of Public Policy at Flame University, Pune, in India. He has taught energy policy, environmental policy, biology and microbiology at George Mason University, and environmental studies at New York University. His research interests at the intersection of energy policy, environmental policy, international relations and South Asia. You can take a look at his research on his Google Scholar page.
In this episode, we discuss his publication, The 1971 Bangladesh War and Policy Lessons for Climate Refugee Management in South Asia.
Catch us Twitter or Instagram at the handle @DTRRHpodcast for...2021-06-1952 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleCognizing Homelessness ft. Anup TripathiDr. Anup Tripathi is an assistant professor at Flame University in Pune, and holds Bachelor's degree in political science from University of Delhi and holds Master's and PhD degrees from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. He has been a visiting scholar at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and Roskilde University in Denmark, and is also a recipient of the NET-Junior research fellowship by the UGC and NTSE scholarship by the NCERT, and has worked extensively as a researcher and teaching associate. You can find his research up on his Google scholar page.
In t...2021-06-1447 minDown The Research Rabbit HoleSolo at Midlife ft. Tannistha SamantaDr. Tannistha Samanta is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research broadly lies at the interdisciplinary crossroads of family sociology and gerontology where she focuses on living arrangements, social capital and health, older adult sexualities and theory development in ageing studies. You can find her on Twitter at @tannistha14, and check out her research on her Google Scholar page.
In this episode, we discuss her publication: Living Solo at Midlife: Can the Pandemic de stigmatise living alone in India?, which explores how single middle-aged Indian women navigate their li...2021-06-1344 min