faculty BOOKSHELF, PODCASTS & VIDEOS
Works by UCI faculty span the social sciences
Check out our faculty bookshelf, podcasts and videos for Q&As, podcasts, and features about our established experts.
BOOKS
Anita Casavantes-Bradford
Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the
United States
Book by Anita Casavantes Bradford, UCI Chicano/Latino studies and history professor,
examines history of U.S. policy toward unaccompanied children from around the globe
Jeanett Castellanos
Riding the Academic Freedom Train: A Culturally Responsive, Multigenerational Mentoring
Model
Book by Jeanett Castellanos, UCI social sciences professor of teaching, presents framework
to help students - particularly underrepresented and first-generation undergrads -
thrive
Sara Goodman
Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
Book by Sara Wallace Goodman, UCI political science professor, examines role, consequences
of politics in America's pandemic response
Edwin Amenta
Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News
Book by UCI sociologist Edwin Amenta analyzes more than a century of digitized news
to highlight how journalists reported on hundreds of causes, and the consequences
of their coverage
Eleana Kim
Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ
Book by Eleana Kim, UCI anthropology professor, explores how nature has flourished
where human diplomacy has failed
Charles Anthony Smith
Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses
Book coauthored by UCI political science professor Charles Anthony Smith centers women's
rights as critical piece in policy solutions aimed at combatting global issue
Jeffrey Kopstein
Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust
Book coauthored by UCI political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein examines key questions
of the Holocaust using tools, methods from political science, sociology, demography
and public health
Yang Su
Deadly Decision in Beijing
Book by UCI sociologist Yang Su dives into succession politics, protest repression,
and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre from a new perspective
David Snow
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
Five-volume reference work co-edited by UCI sociologist David Snow updated to include
more than 200 new cultural and political developments of the past decade
Damien Sojoyner
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums
Book by UCI anthropologist Damien Sojoyner is a poignant account of how the carceral
state shapes daily life for young Black people--and how Black Americans resist, find
joy, and cultivate new visions for the future
Michael McBride
Coaching Youth Baseball and Softball with Sabermetrics
Book by UCI economics professor Michael McBride breaks down applied sabermetrics in
an easy-to-use, no-math-required guide for assessing, developing and advancing youth
players and teams
PODCASTS
UCI Podcast: Global Indigeneity
Tiara Na'puti, UCI global and international studies assistant professor, discusses
her work with Indigenous populations in the Pacific Islands
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums
Damien Sojoyner, anthropology, discusses his new book, Joy and Pain, on the New Books
Network podcast with host Reighan Gillam
UCI Podcast: Is a recession coming?
Economist Eric Swanson explains that there's nothing yet to fear ... at least for
now
The human cost of South Korea's era of transnational adoption
Eleana Kim, anthropology, weighs in via for the Melbourne Asia Review
Podcast: What does it mean to be a good citizen in the United States?
Sara Goodman, poli sci, explains on The Fulcrum
VIDEOS
UCI Experts On: Social movements
UCI sociologist Edwin Amenta shares his latest work analyzing more than a century of digitized news to highlight how journalists reported on hundreds of causes, and the consequences of their coverage
Experts on: The downstate
UCI cognitive scientist and sleep expert Sara Mednick breaks down upstate and downstate biological rhythms and activities that improve health and well-being