culturalstudies

Mandy Tröger, Richard Maxwell, Ben Scott, Sut Jhally, Des Freedman, Deepa Kumar, and Victor Pickard on Robert W McChesney You can read about Bob’s work in several places: https://www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/robert-mcchesney https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html https://www.thenation.com/article/society/robert-mcchesney-obituary/ https://www.freep...

Farooq Sulehria on Pakistan, India, politics, the media, universities You can learn about his work here: https://www.bnu.edu.pk/faculty/dr-farooq-sulehria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z70JeVMUg8    

Graeme Turner on Australian politics, culture, and universities You can read about Graeme’s work here: https://graemeturner.org/  

Lance Bennett, Victor Pickard, Susan Douglas, Bruce Williams, Michael Delli Carpini, and Larry Gross on Robert W McChesney You can read about Bob’s work in several places: https://www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/robert-mcchesney https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html https://www.thenation.com/article/society/robert-mcchesney-obituary/ https://www.free...

Sherry Ortner on photo-memoir, high school, anthropology, gender, Sherpas, and independent film You can read about her here: https://www.sherryortner.com/  

Ketan Joshi on environmental movements and coverage, the destruction of US climate data, governments, freelancing, and artificial intelligence as the new plastic You can learn about his work here: https://ketanjoshi.co/  

Max Whitby on the BBC, Apple, birding, the periodic table, astronomy and applications You can read about Max's work here: https://www.rgbco.com/people  

Natasha Lennard on political writing, authoritarianism, resistance, journalism, and uncertainty You can read about her work here: https://natashalennard.com/

Robin Goodman, Jordan Scott, Katie Rainwater, Chris Robé, and Nicole Erin Morse on the authoritarian threat to higher education You can read about their work here: https://english.fsu.edu/faculty/robin-goodman https://sipa.fiu.edu/people/faculty/global-and-sociocultural-studies/katie-rainwater.html https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/robe/ https://www.nemorse.com/ and contact Jordan vi...

Marjorie Pallion and Dennis Broe on European media regulation and streamers You can read about their work here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/ https://www.twinglobal.org/twin-global/speakers/marjorie-paillon#

Ana Hofman on Serbian protests, socialism, cultural politics, affect, ethnomusicology, Yugoslavia, and leisure/amateurism You can read about her work here: https://ps-zrc-sazu.org/kdosmo/hofman/?lang=en  

Victoria Carpenter on higher education, hurricanes, Tlatelolco, memory, emotion, and literature You can read about her work here: https://www.beds.ac.uk/rimap/about/staff/victoria-carpenter/

Dennis Broe and Layan Fuleihan on sports journalism, women and Marxism in Palestinian analysis and resistance, and Mahmud Khalil You can read about their work here: https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/ https://peoplesforum.org/instructor/layan-fuleihan/  

Mmabatho Montse on South Africa, shamanism, decoloniality, Afrikaners, liberals, and transformation You can learn about her work here: https://www.montsem.com/

Anja Bechmann on platforms, misinformation/disinformation, and the concentration of power You can read about her work here: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/anja-%E5%AE%89%E9%9B%85-bechmann  

Kath Wilson on journalism, sustainability, crocodiles and “fashion,” kangaroos, agriculture, fire, indigenous knowledge, tinkering, activism, and animal sentience You can read about her work here: https://www.katherinewilson.com.au/  

Atossa Abrahamian on citizenship, passports, Switzerland, Iran, the orange combover, and journalism You can read about her work here: https://www.atossaaraxia.com/    

Gerard Hanlon on the military, Ukraine, management, the professions, and students from pathbreaking backgrounds You can read about his work here: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/staff/academic/profiles/hanlong.html

Dennis Broe on Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders” et al.), the Los Angeles fires, and neoliberalism. Toby on Mexico You can watch Dennis’ “LA is Burning” talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oHeJboBXw and Karen Bass discourteously, if tellingly, doorstepped by Sky News here: https://news.sky.com/video/la-mayor-asked-if-she-owes-citizens-apology-over-handling-of-wildfires-13285730  

Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon, and Steve Macek on Jeff Bezos, Silicon Valley, the bourgeois media, the Democratic Party, the orange combover and the manchild's assault on scientific inquiry You can read about their work here https://education.ucsc.edu/people/lecturers.php?uid=nhigdon https://faculty.fordham.edu/andersen/ https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/shmacek    

Thomas Scanlon on life in California versus London, the ancient Mediterranean world and the US, classics, sports, violence, gender, and empires You can read about his work here: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/TScanlon

Sharika Thiranagama on war, difference, and Sri Lanka You can read about her work here: https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/sharika-thiranagama  

Joe Maguire on Ireland, sports, Elias, sociology, and Marxism You can read about his work here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/sport-exercise-health-sciences/people/joseph-maguire/  

Jennifer Smith Maguire on sociology, consumption, wine, fitness, and intermediation. You can read about her work here: https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/jennifer-smith-maguire Smith Maguire, J. 2021. Towards a sociology from wine and vina aperta . Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 6(2), 10: 1-12.  [Open Access]   Smith Maguire, J., Bridgeman, N-M., Marco-Thyse,...

Dennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and today You can read (all) about it here: https://books.apple.com/es/book/the-dark-ages/id6739433342