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, S. & Erasmus, C. 2022. Wine farmworkers, provenance stories and ethical value claims. Journal of Wine Research . 33(4): 214-234. [ Open Access here ] Smith Maguire, J., Ocejo, R. & DeSoucey, M. 2023. Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness . Journal of Consumer Culture. 23(3): 597-616. [ Open Access here ] Lever, J., Smith Maguire, J. & Kapek-Goodridge, A. (Eds). 2024. Towards an Eliasian Understanding of Food in the 21st Century: Established Foundations and New Directions. Palgrave.…

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: https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/The+Space+of+the+World%3A+Can+Human+Solidarity+Survive+Social+Media+and+What+If+It+Can't%3F-p-9781509554720