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Volume: 49
Issue: 3

In the News

Seth Abrutyn, University of British Columbia, was quoted in the April 15, 2021, article in The New York Times, “C.T.E. Tests May Not Fully Explain N.F.L Player’s Shooting Spree.”

Chloe E. Bird, Pardee RAND Graduate School, co-authored the commentary “Mothers Need a Continuous System of Care Even After Babies are Born” on Newsweek.com on May 10, 20201.

Karen A. Cerulo, Rutgers, was a guest on the BBC4 radio show Thinking Aloud, on May 5, 2021, where she was interviewed about her 2018 study “Scents and Sensibility: Olfaction, Sense-Making and Meaning Attribution.”

Hae Yeon Choo and Robert Diaz, University of Toronto-Mississauga, authored the op-ed “Addressing Anti-Asian Racism in the University” in the April 2, 2021, edition of Inside Higher Ed.

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, was interviewed for the article “White Evangelical Resistance is Obstacle In Vaccination Effort,” appearing on the front page of the April 5, 2021, print edition of The New York Times, as well as for the article “Republicans and Democrats Switch Sides on Religion vs. Science” in The Washington Post on May 25, 2021.

Charles A. Gallagher, La Salle University, was quoted in the article “‘The Relationship Has Always Been Tense.’ Philadelphia’s Police Department Has a Troubling History with the City’s Black Community,” in the October 30, 2020, issue of TIME Magazine and was interviewed for several news segments, including: “Digital Blackface: What the Online Phenomenon Means,” on March 16, 2021, and “Our Race Reality: Action for Allies,” on March 20, 2021, on Fox 29 Philadelphia; “Philadelphia Police Increase Presence in Parts of City Again Following Storming of U.S. Capitol,” on January 7, 2021, on CBS 3 Philadelphia; and “Dennis Farm Charitable Land Trust, Museum of American Revolution Host ‘It Begins With Us’ Webinar,” on February 20, 2021, on WBNG 12 Binghamton.

Shirley A. Jackson, Portland State University, was interviewed for the piece “Antifa Didn’t Storm the Capitol. Just Ask the Rioters” for the March 2, 2021, episode of NPR’s Morning Edition. She also appeared in the May 16, 2021, episode of CNN’s United Shades of America titled “The Power of Protest,” where she discussed the protests in Portland, OR, during summer 2020.

Jennifer Lee, Columbia University, wrote an article “When the Past Becomes Present: A Legacy of Anti-Asian Hate” that appeared in the April 22, 2021, Social Science Research Council Insights blog. With Tiffany J. Huang, Columbia University, Lee wrote the editorial “Reckoning with Asian America,” that appeared in the April 2, 2021, issue of Science, which the editor-in-chief highlighted in the Editor’s Blog.

Martyn Pickersgill, University of Edinburgh, authored a March 25, 2021, article for the UK broadsheet The Herald, titled “Why We Must Do More to Make Mental Health Our Priority,” and was quoted in a April 30, 2021, La Tercera article, “‘Nueva Normalidad’: La Experiencia de Israel y Reino Unido, los Líderes en Vacunación.”

Michael S. Pollard, Pardee RAND Graduate School, was interviewed about his recent study of public trust in the CDC by KNX News Radio on April 5, 2021; by CNN for the May 21, 2021, article “As It Fights a Pandemic, CDC Wages a Second Battle To Win Back Trust”; and by United Press International for the April 5, 2021, article “Public Trust in CDC Drops across All Demographics during Pandemic.”

Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-Los Angeles, Kjerstin Gruys, University of Nevada-Reno, and Kate Mason, Wheaton College, were quoted in the USA Today May 25, 2021, article “Those Infamous Edited Yearbook Photos and Society’s Obsession with Girls’ Bodies: ‘You Can’t Win.’”

Jennifer Patrice Sims, University of Alabama-Huntsville, was interviewed on the March 9, 2021, episode of BBC World News for a live segment on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. She was also quoted in the March 9, 2021, article in The Washington Post, “Meghan and Harry’s Interview Confirmed That Royal Status Is No Shield from the Paper Bag Test.”

Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh, was quoted in a May 5, 2021, article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review from her statement at a special City Council public hearing on the crisis of Black Pittsburghers leaving the city.

Stacy Torres, University of California-San Francisco, authored the op-ed “Violence and Hate Against Asian Americans is a Health and Safety Crisis for Everyone,” appearing in the March 17, 2021, edition of USA Today.

Jake Wilson, California State University-Long Beach, and Ellen Reese, University of California-Riverside, were interviewed by the German labor magazine Luxemburg Gesellschaftanalyse und Linke Praxis, March 2021.