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A discussion about radicalism in sociology
The QC Pod's Hanme Cho interviews QC Accounting's Ivy Huang about the stock market.
The complicated relationship between the police and America's African-American community.
We discuss the concept of danger in police culture with Michael Sierra-Arevalo.
It has been a very tough decade for the sociology job market, and faculty jobs are getting tougher to land. At the same time, doctoral students often feel discouraged from pursuing a career outside of the academy. One viable response may be to reconsider old attitudes about a career in applied sociology. In this episode, […]
Part two of our two-part series on the sociology of cults.
We meet Counseling Center Director Barbara Moore to discuss counseling services available to QC students.
A look at loneliness from a social science and sociological perspective.
QC Analytics wins at a global hackathon! We meet the winning team to learn about analytics, hackathons, and more.
How the British system of rating departments influences scholarship.
The Knight News' Samantha Galvez-Montiel interviews Media Studies' Benjamin Strassfield about America's increasingly fraught political culture.
We talk with Urban Studies professor Natalie Vena and pre-dentistry student Tiara Miller about CUNY’s social justice mission, what it has made possible in their own lives, chronic underfunding, and the future of this powerful institution of social mobility. Host Jason Tougaw.
Adam Slez (Virginia) discusses political populism in the 19th century American West.
We talk about COVID19 with QC virologist John Dennehy.
In this episode of the QC Pod, we meet Amir Khafagy, freelance journalist and QC graduate with a B.A. and M.A. in Urban Studies from Queens College. Khafagy’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Vice, Bloomberg, and City Limits. He’s the recipient of The New Economics Reporting Fellowship and the Asian American Writers Workshop […]
The back story on George Herbert Mean, with Daniel Huebner.
In this episode of the QC Pod, we meet two campus labor leaders to discuss the current state of labor relations between campus faculty and executives. Jane Guskin is an adjunct in the Urban Studies department at Queens College, a PSC delegate, and co-founder of QC Adjuncts Unite. David Gerwin is a faculty member in the department […]
How do inequalities in access to digital technologies persist after everyone gets an iPad and access to a hotspot?
Ever wondered what happens to the sample after that swab invades your nasal passages? On this week’s episode of the QC Pod, we meet Kathy Fauntleroy, Microbiology Laboratory Supervisor at New York Presbyterian Hospital by day–and MFA in Creative Nonfiction student by night. In addition to being at the forefront of the fight against COVID19, […]
Labor organization and labor issues in academia
We meet Prof Anna Bounds (Sociology) to discuss her research on doomsday survival preppers.
We discuss Eli Wilson's research on inequality in the restaurant industry.
Advice for Queens College students who want to move on to graduate school.
What was it like to be an EMT during the COVID19 wave? Jason Tougaw asks QC alumni Timothy So.
We talk about urban doomsday preppers with Anna Bounds (CUNY Queens College)
Today, we learn about the sociology of food with Sarah Bowen, Jennifer Gaddis, and Kara Young.
We talk about the politicization of the Census with Rob Santos, incoming President of the American Statistical Association
How can students succeed when school is online?
We discuss the women of Gen X with Prof. Robin Rogers (Sociology).
Jonathan Wynn leads a discussion of the challenges facing sociology chairs.
Eva Fernandez and Michelle Fraboni on best online teaching practices while Queens College is online.
We discuss occupational equality in the medical profession with Tania Jenkins (UNC-Chapel Hill)
We talk about Twitter has altered journalism, the news, and our world of information.
What effect will social isolation and physical distancing have on already marginalized communities during the COVID-19 pandemic?
We speak to Victor Ray about racialized organizations.
We talk about getting online teaching right with three colleagues with expertise in online pedagogy.
We discuss Dan Chambliss' op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the ethics of letting people drop their major or college.
We discuss the effect of hijabs on jobs, with guest Eman Abdelhadi.
We discuss NPR as a racialized organization.
We discuss the lives of Muslim American teenage boys with John O'Brien (NYU Abu Dhabi).
Today, we discuss emergency medical workers' role in society, and what you can learn about contemporary American by following them around.
What is holding back? The Annex sits down with Jaclyn Wong (University of South Carolina), an expert in gender, relationships, and careers.
We discuss whether working class students are served well by a higher ed curriculum that eschews vocational training.
Why was the media ignoring Elizbeth Warren? A discussion about whether Elizabeth Warren was being treated differently, and whether gender dynamics are at work here.
How did COVID19 happen? Why did we botch its handling? How will society change in response to the virus?
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