Interview by Angela VandenBroek https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo27407562.html Angela VandenBroek: The Rise of Nerd Politics is a captivating description and analysis o…
Interview by Shannon Ward https://utorontopress.com/ca/transforming-indigeneity-2 Shannon Ward: Your book demonstrates how children in São Gabriel actively respond to discourse that frames Indigene…
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28267368.html Interview by Josh Reno Josh Reno: What were your primary goals in writing this book? Britt: Halvorson: One of my goals in writi…
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25983 Harvey Stark: What inspired you to write Last Scene Underground and what one or two main things do you hope your readers will come away with? Roxanne Varzi: …
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469631868/the-sound-of-navajo-country/?title_id=3849 Morgan Siewert: On its face, your project to analyze expressive culture among Navajo country music artists using…
My dissertation examines how slam poets in Madagascar have forged a novel form of public discourse that emphasizes both freedom of speech and accountability for one’s speech. This…
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298712/sounding-islam Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: In Sounding Islam, one of your primary arguments is that anthropologists of religion should foc…
by Ilana Gershon Job Application Forms The military introduced this as a widespread practice starting in 1917, when the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the Army developed…
By Ilana Gershon Since people weren’t using job ads to find applicants or positions until the mid-1880s, what did they turn to? They ended up turning to intelligence…
by Ilana Gershon American newspapers carried announcements about jobs from as early as 1705. The first job ad I found was in The Boston News-Letter, asking for a…
by Ilana Gershon Job Advice I Was Surprised to Find in the 1920s In 1917, employers were paying for employee referrals – I had no idea that this…
by Ilana Gershon This is my application to be a member of the Society for the Study of Boring Things. To write my book, Down and Out in the…
On page 99: “Spiritualism troubles the separation between here and there: as modern, western and mostly ‘white,’ but also because Spiritualists inhabit the problematic prejudices of modernity as…
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/bookpage/SABINbookpage.html Interview by Rebekah Cupitt Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway’s book, Signing and Belonging in Nepal (2016) captures the ongoing and changing nature of …
Page 99 of my dissertation, Schooling Languages: Indigeneity, Language Policy, and Language Shift in Nepal, is both representative and anomalous as part of my dissertation. In my dissertation…
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29375 Interview by Chuyun Oh Chuyun Oh: What were some of the questions you want to explore when you first decided to write a book on K-pop, and…
Interview by Ilana Gershon http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo27256361.html Ilana Gershon: While this book ostensibly focuses on one radio presenter, because Gogo Breeze interacts w…
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo25265716.html Interview by Elayne Oliphant Elayne Oliphant: As you acknowledge, this is clearly a “theory book.” But I’d like to start by asking y…
https://utorontopress.com/us/europe-un-imagined-2 Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: You open Europe Un-Imagined by suggesting that while the television channel you studied aimed to fashion a …
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo24117771.html Interview by Liza Youngling Liza Youngling: In Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporar…
h https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-village-goes-mobile-9780190630270 Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: What is so fascinating about A Village Goes Mobile is how effectively you use yo…
My dissertation looked at how media impacts community. Specifically, how does the global circulation of regular publications help create a sense of community among 8 million Jehovah’s Witnesses…
My dissertation deals with pedagogic programs for self-improvement in a city called Jinan, northeast China. I focus on workshops that cultivate interpersonal “soft” skills, namely emotional expression…
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