Last Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education carried a nice piece on sociologist Gary Allen Fine’s latest book, Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture
Would you rather chair your university department or manage an amateur softball team? Edwin Amenta, NYU professor of sociology and author of Professor Baseball: Searching
Caitlin Zaloom, author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London, was featured yesterday on Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight to
The Chicago Reader recently ran an insightful analysis of Mary Pattillo’s new book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the
John Sugden recently reviewed Edwin Amenta’s memoir of amateur sport, Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central
George J. Borjas, professor of economics and history at Harvard University and author of the recently published Mexican Immigration to the United States, recently started
On May 1, Mexican immigrants took to the streets in cities across America to demand a living wage, greater access to health care, and an
Equal parts medical drama, political chronicle, and ringing polemic, Inclusion tells the story of the movement for a more inclusive approach to medical research, from
Last Monday Salon.com ran an in-depth review of Angus McLaren’s new book Impotence: A Cultural History. Drawing from McLaren’s work, reviewer Laura Miller walks through
Author Mary Pattillo was featured Tuesday on Chicago Public Radio’s daily news-radio talk show Eight Forty-Eight. Pattillo speaks with host Richard Steele about her new