The Society Today podcast has returned!
Episode 2 of the Society Today podcast, featuring Dr. Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde of Utah State University and Dr. Christopher Rider of the University of Michigan, is now live!
Listen below for a fascinating discussion about racial disparities in the National Football League, and don’t forget to subscribe to get more podcast episodes as soon as they drop!
Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Texas A&M University and is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utah State University. Her research interests are population health, intersectionality, and broader issues of racial inequality, and her expertise includes Immigrant, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ health, as well as demography. You can find her on X at @gmvelarde85 and Threads at @gmv_phd.
Christopher Rider earned his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley, and is now the Thomas C. Kinnear Professor and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research examines the reciprocal relationship between entrepreneurship and societal inequality, and he also studies racial disparity in various empirical contexts, with a focus on sports settings.
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