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
The Emotions of Dyadic Relationships: An Interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas
This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas, who at the time of the interview were Ph.D. candidates in the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology. The in...
31 Maj 202441min
Sugar and the Transformation of the American West: An Interview with Bernadette Pérez
For this episode of the Matrix Podcast, J.T. Jamieson, a 2022-2023 Matrix Communications Scholar, interviewed Bernadette Pérez, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Pérez is a historian of ...
30 Maj 202453min
Storytelling and the Climate Crisis
Contemporary writers and activists have described the climate crisis as, in part, a crisis of the imagination, of culture, and of storytelling. Recorded on March 11, 2024, this panel featured a group ...
14 Apr 20241h 32min
New Directions in Greening Infrastructure
As the effects of climate change become more obvious, moving away from fossil fuels has only become more urgent. But to do so, new energy sources – and new infrastructure – are desperately needed. Rec...
14 Apr 20241h 16min
Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness
Recorded on March 18, 2024, this panel focused on Professor Alex V. Barnard's book, Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness. The book analyzes conservatorsh...
5 Apr 20241h 24min
