Books & Articles

In this incisive new work, Adrian Daub analyzes the global spread of cancel culture discourse as a moral panic. To trace how various global publics have been so quickly convinced that cancel culture exists and that it poses an existential problem, Daub compares the cancel culture panic to moral panics past, investigating the powerful hold that the idea of "being cancelled" has on readers around the world. 

Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction presents readers with the key debates and ideas central to contemporary U.S. feminism. With a focus on intersectionality, the book highlights the goals, tactics, and varieties of feminism. This engaging and accessible text includes current examples, case studies, profiles of key figures in the movement, and opportunities/resources to gather more information.  By Alison Dahl Crossley.

Ballads were poems one could use - schoolteachers used them to train their students' memory (or punish them), women composers used them to assert their place in the musical canon, actors used them to bolster their income, mothers used them to put their children to sleep. By Adrian Daub.

Authored by Susan Krieger, one of the most respected figures in the field of personal ethnographic narrative, this book serves as both a memoir and a sociological study, telling the story of one lesbian couple’s lifelong journey together.

Megan Tobias Neely, a sociologist and a former hedge fund worker, takes an ethnographic approach to Wall Street to expose who wins, who loses, and why inequality endures.

In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment.