Down The Research Rabbit Hole – Details, episodes & analysis

Philip Gorsky is a comparative-historical sociologist from Yale University. His areas of research interest and focus include state formation, nationalism, revolutionism, economic development and secularization, with a special emphasis on religion and politics. You can find out more about Philip’s work on Yale’s Sociology department website.

In this episode, we discuss his publication, American Babylon: Christianity Before and After Trump.

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Jason Pagaduan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include race and ageing.

In this episode, we discuss his dissertation topic Mall Walking: Community, Pleasure, and Self-Preservation Among Racialized Older Adults.

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Jose Eos Trinidad is a doctoral student (2020) at the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology and is currently pursuing a joint PhD in Sociology and Comparative Human Development. His areas of research interest include organizational sociology, educational policy, and quantitative methods, and his research has been published in 20+ journals including Social Science and Medicine, the International Journal of Educational Development, and Studies in Educational Evaluation, among others. You can find out more about Eos and his research on UChicago's Sociology Department directory. 

In this episode, we discuss his publication, Social Consequences and Contexts of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

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TW: mentions of death, suicide and dark humour 

Adam Valen Levinson is the author of the nonfiction novel The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W. W. Norton, 2017) — dubbed "Eat, Pray, Laugh" by The New York Times but/and not without its controversy.  Morgan Parker, the National Book Critics Circle award winner for poetry, called him "an incredibly generous, compassionate, and thorough writer who gorgeously blends lyricism with reportage and philosophy with a confession."  Adam has written, filmed, and photographed for Al Jazeera, The Paris Review, Haaretz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and VICE, and done college stints at the Meccas of real fake news, namely, The Colbert Report and The Onion. He holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and is in the latter stages of his PhD at Yale University, where he travels globally to investigate new standup comedy scenes as a fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology. You can find out more about Adam and his work on his website. 

In this episode, we dig a bit deeper into humour and standup comedy as his areas of research. 

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Marco Garrido is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. His work broadly looks at the relationship between the urban poor and middle class in Manila, and particularly how it shapes politics, urban spaces and social life. His work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Qualitative Sociology, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

His book The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are connected and thus helps us make similar connections in other cases. It shows class as a social structure to be as indispensable to the study of Manila—and of many other cities of the Global South—as race is to the study of American cities, which is what we discuss in this episode. 

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Kimberly Burke is a PhD student in Sociology from UC Berkeley (anticipated graduation 2023). She holds MA and BA degrees in women's studies from San Diego State University and Duke University respectively and has worked at UCLA's Centre for Police Equity (CPE) for four years. Her areas of research interest include Policing, State Violence, Inequality, Criminal Justice, Feminist Theory. 

On this episode, we discuss her research on police brutality and the lived realities of policing. 

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Josh Seim is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He is broadly interested in the governance of poverty and suffering, which has thus led him into the sociologies of medicine, punishment, and labour. His work has appeared in American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods and Research, Punishment and Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and Teaching Sociology, among other outlets. You can find out more about Josh's work on USC's faculty page. 

In this episode, we discuss his book, Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering, published by the University of California Press. 

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Karlyn Gorski is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) at the University of Chicago's sociology department. Her research focuses on high school students in and around Chicago, and she is especially interested in youths' strategies for navigating the structures of schooling. You can find out more about Karlyn's work on her Linkedin profile. 

In this episode, we discuss her publication titled My Voice Matters: High School Debaters’ Acquisition of Dominant and Adaptive Cultural Capital, and briefly touch upon her recent research on the curbing of snack-selling at schools. 

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Dr. Rituparna Patgiri teaches Sociology at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and holds a PhD in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is also one of the co-founders of Doing Sociology, an independent, women-led academic blog dedicated to promoting sociological content. Her areas of research interest include food, gender, culture, media, and the public. You can take a look at Rituparna's publications on her Google Scholar page, and follow her on the Twitter handle @Rituparna37.

On this episode, we discuss her dissertation on the art of mobile theatre in the Indian state of Assam.

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Dr. Divya Balan is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Flame University, Pune, India. She holds Doctorate, Masters and M.Phil degrees in International Studies, and is a political science graduate. Her areas of teaching and research interest include the disciplinary histories of International Studies and European Studies, international migration and migration policies, Indian diasporic communities, Gulf migration, and Kerala studies. You can find about more about Divya on Flame University's faculty page. 

On this episode, we discuss her doctoral thesis, Immigrants Integration Policies in Britain: A Study of Indian Immigrants Incorporation 2000-2010, in tandem with her general research on Indian immigrants in the UK. 

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