A new book series has been launched for historical sociology with Cambridge University.  The editors are Stephanie Mudge (UC Davis) and Anthony Chen (Northwestern University).

Professors Isaac Ariail Reed and Adam Slez will discuss their recent books, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies and The Making of the Populist Movement: State, Market, and Party on the Western Frontier, in a flash talk focused on issues of power, politics, and populism.  The discussant will be Ioana Sendroiu (Harvard University).

You can watch a recording of the talk below:

Our first flash talk was held on January 28th, 2021.  It featured Mitchell Stevens, from Stanford University, discussing “How College Degrees Divide America: Historical Legacies, Present Politics, Possible Futures.”  The discussant was Sarah Quinn (University of Washington.)

You can view a recording of the talk below: