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Social Theory Podcast Episode 2 – WEB Du Bois

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. See the end of this post for links to the podcast.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. She retells history with expert analyses of historical artifacts, primary sources and thorough research.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.

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The Real CSI

ShortCutsTV

The Centre for Social Investigation – not to be confused with the long-running TV series – was established at Nuffield College in 2014 as an “interdisciplinary research programme” with the aim of addressing “contemporary social issues of public interest”.

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Riding A Wave

ShortCutsTV

Many of our Psychology films reference material from the past, either in the shape of psychological research or simply as background to a particular time period and this gives me the opportunity to spend time combing through sites like the Internet Archive looking for old film. And while much of this is work-related (its a […]

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The selection committee was impressed by Owolabi’s skillful use of multiple methodological tools including large-scale statistical analysis and comparative historical analysis based on extensive original archival research across multiple continents. Dr. Olukunle P. He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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The skull maps that quantified racism

Strange Maps

Ripley via the Internet Archive ) Ripley was a man of various talents. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. Ripley via the Internet Archive ) There were other categorizations, each as equally subjective. Early-20th-century research in the U.S.