The Imperiled Place of Universities and Democracy in the USA: Interview with Todd Wolfson
Global Democracy Commons Podcast: Episode 2 In the run up to the American election we talked to Todd Wolfson, the new President of AAUP, about how public disinvestment from higher education and the cu...
19 Nov 202448min
Matrix on Point: Voices from the Heartland
Over the past few years, Arlie Hochschild has been in conversation with citizens of Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia; Jenny Reardon has been biking through her home state of Kansas, tal...
11 Nov 20241h 21min
Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era
Recorded on October 9, 2024, this video features an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era, by Paul Pierson, the Jo...
10 Nov 20241h 22min
Matrix on Point: War is Back
War is back. Open military operations in Europe and the Middle East have driven an escalation of geopolitical tensions in those regions. The conduct of warfare is changing, too, fueled by the deployme...
8 Nov 20241h 22min
Understanding Academic Freedom: Interview with Hank Reichman
One measure of the fragile state of many democracies is the way in which public universities have come under attack around the world. A new monthly podcast series, produced as part of the Global Demo...
1 Nov 202457min
Authors Meet Critics - Juana María Rodríguez, "Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex"
On Sept. 16, 2024, Social Science Matrix hosted an Authors Meet Critics panel focused on the book Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex, by Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in the Department of Ethni...
24 Okt 20241h 15min
Prisoner Labor Legacies: An interview with Elizabeth Hargrett and Xander Lenc
While recent news has highlighted how prisoners have fought wildfires, prison labor is not a new phenomenon. Although incarcerated people have built highways, dams, and buildings, their contributions ...
27 Sep 202442min
Agricultural Modernization in China: Interview with Ross Doll and Coleman Mahler
This episode of the Matrix Podcast features Matrix Postdoctoral Fellow Julia Sizek interviewing Ross Doll and Coleman Mahler, two scholars from different disciplines whose work focuses on the moderniz...
11 Sep 202449min
