João Carlos Magalhães is a postdoctoral researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Brooke Belisle on Google Earth Virtual Reality
Brooke Belisle researches and teaches the comparative history and theory of media aesthetics at Stony Brook. Her work focuses on the recurrent disruptions and possibilities of “new media”, exploring emergent formats and experimental practices that echo across different periods of technological and social transformation. She directs the Stony Brook working group in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology , is an editor of the Journal of Visual Culture , and has co-chaired the CinemArts group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
Loren Balhorn on The History of Antifa
Loren Balhorn is a contributing editor at Jacobin and co-editor, together with Bhaskar Sunkara, of Jacobin: Die Anthologie (Suhrkamp, 2018).
Joseph F Getzoff on Neoliberal Zionism
We speak with Joseph F Getzoff about start-up nationalism. Joseph F Getzoff has been in the University of Minnesota Department of Geography, Environment, and Society since 2011. He is currently a PhD candidate. He is also an adjunct instructor at Worcester State University. His field work centered on the Negev/Naqab Desert in Israel. As a cultural geographer, he critically studies the discourses and practices that link nationalism, environment, and development.
Neil Cummins on Hidden Wealth
We speak with Neil Cummins about inequality and hidden wealth in the UK. Neil Cummins is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His research themes are life, love and death. His methods combine economic logic and historical sources with big data analytics. His research papers are available at neilcummins.com
Pauline Grosjean on Men
We speak with Pauline Grosjean about how economics can help us understand the origins of ‘masculinity norms’. Pauline Grosjean is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales. Previously at the University of San Francisco and the University of California at Berkeley, she has also worked as an Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She completed her PhD in economics at the University of Toulouse in 2006 after graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Frank Andre Guridy on Stadiums, Power and Protest
We speak with Frank Andre Guridy about sports stadiums and contested space. Frank Andre Guridy teaches history and African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University. His forthcoming book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics, shows how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture during the high point of the Black Freedom and Second-Wave feminist movements.
Sascha O. Becker on the enduring effects of the communist experience in Germany
We talk with Sascha O. Becker about the impact of German division and reunification. Sascha O. Becker is the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England.
Vasiliki Fouka on The Great Migration
We speak with Vasiliki Fouka about the Great Migration, civil rights and immigration. Vasiliki Fouka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests are in cultural economics, economic history and political economy. She has studied immigrant assimilation, the dynamics of ethnic identity, and the formation of attitudes towards out-groups, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
African American family from the rural South arriving in Chicago, 1922.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library (1168439)
Nicola Mastrorocco on The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy
We discuss the history (and potential future) of social democracy with Nicola Mastrorocco. Nicola Mastrorocco is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He is also affiliated at the Trinity Impact Evaluation Unit, the Political Economy and Political Science Group of the London School of Economics and at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University.
