culturalstudies

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

Bruce Williams and Michael Delli Carpini on US politics You can read more about their work here: https://mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/people/bruce-williams https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/michael-x-delli-carpini-phd  

Toni Pape on higher education, media aesthetics, stealth, process philosophy, editing, and games You can read about Toni’s work here: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/a/t.pape/t.pape.html?cb https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5847/The-Aesthetics-of-StealthDigital-Culture-Video https://www.dukeupress.edu/figures-of-time  

Fernanda Peñaloza on indigenous cultures, Argentina, Latin America and Australia, film festivals, and Patagonia You can read about her work here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/fernanda-penaloza.html

Nolan Higdon, Robin Andersen, and Steve Macek on the 2024 US general election and the future—organize organize organize! 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  

Deirdre O’Neill, Rachel Broady, and Steve Baker on class, politics, education, and the media/journalism You can read about their work here: https://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/en/persons/deirdre-oneill https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-arts-professional-and-social-studies/humanities-and-social-science/rachel-broady https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/steve-baker  

Nick Couldry on his new book The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can’t? You can read about it here:

Natalie Fenton on her new book, Democratic Delusions: How the Media Hollows Out Democracy and What We Can Do About It You can read about the book here: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Democratic+Delusions%3A+How+the+Media+Hollows+Out+Democracy+and+What+We+Can+Do+About+It-p-9781509548491  

Leah Perry on haunting, settler colonialism, dispossession, US immigration, indigeneity, race, land, food, gender, and the media You can read about her work here: https://directory.sunyempire.edu/view/leah-perry https://www.instagram.com/dr_leah/ https://www.facebook.com/leahmarieperry77

  Christopher Gaffney on cultural geography, tourism, hospitality, resistance to the World Cup and the Olympics, sports and the environment, neoliberal universities You can read about his work here: https://www.sps.nyu.edu/homepage/academics/faculty-directory/20072-christopher-t-gaffney.html https://geostadia.blogspot.com/p/about.html https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OPcpe3gAAAAJ&hl=e...

Kai Schnier on German national identity, immigration, podcasting, journalism, television, politics, work You can read about his work here: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/un-american-kai-schnier-T6oXnbHBSr4/?srsltid=AfmBOooba4kZbfYCVWJrlnFYpjWv7dhso6vzmKbTnOkE0JYGasLZo2g6 https://www.kulturaustausch.de/en/person-detail/kai-schnier/#:~:text=Biography,of%20the%20Berlin%20Free%20University

Corinne Painter on Germany and the right, Michael Schumacher, the German revolution, women and socialism You can read about her work here: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/1031/dr-corinne-painter

Sean Andrews on cultural studies, political economy, subjectivity, education, racial struggles, and the law You can read about Sean’s work here: https://www.colum.edu/academics/faculty/detail/sean-andrews.html  

Jessamyn Abel on post-War Japan and the US, democracy, fast trains, history, Japan’s international cultural relations, the Olympics, gender, and race You can read about her work here: https://sites.psu.edu/jessamynabel/ https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-international-minimum-creativity-and-contradiction-in-japans-global-engagement-1933-1964/ https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/dream-super-e...

Bill Grantham, David Rowe, and Richard Maxwell on Why Journalism? You can read about their work here: https://independent.academia.edu/BillGrantham https://billgrantham.substack.com/ https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/people/emeritus_professors/david_rowe https://theconversation.com/profiles/david-rowe-16403 Richard Maxwell is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New...

Parissa Safai on the neoliberal academy and social justice, the International Sociology of Sport Association, kinesiology, rugby, health, gender, activism, and Canadian policy You can read about her work and interests here: https://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=124550 https://www.issa1965.org/

TL Taylor on fan communities, class, Disney, Twitch, e-sports, theme parks, games, gender You can read about her work here: https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/tl-taylor/ https://tltaylor.com/