Check out this conversation with Dr. Galen Watts (KU Leuven) on his recent book, The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press. 

In this episode, Scott Hamilton, Chair of the Communication Committee of the AMSS Section and Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas engages in a conversation with Netta Kahana, PhD Student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on her recent article, "The road worth taking, the life worth living, and the person worth being: Morality, authenticity and personhood in volunteer tourism and beyond," published in Tourist Studies in 2021. Do not miss out this thought-provoking discussion! 

Check out the conversation between ex-chair Professor David Melamed (The Ohio State University) and this year's current chair Professor Penny Edgell (University of Minnesota) discussing the importance of public sociology and a recent publication by Professor Edgell. 

In this episode, Professor Matthew Baggetta (Indiana University) discusses two recent publications, "Systematic Social Observation in the Study of Civil Society Organizations," published in Sociological Methods and Research, and "Observing Civic Engagement: Using. Systematic Social Observation to Study Civil Society Organization Convenings," published in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. Check it out! 

In this podcast conversation,  Professor Bin Xu (Emory University), president-elect of the AMSS section, discusses his recent book "Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China" published in 2021 with Cambridge University Press.