Author: Michael Todd

Social Science Space editor Michael Todd is a long-time newspaper editor and reporter whose beats included the U.S. military, primary and secondary education, government, and business. He entered the magazine world in 2006 as the managing editor of Hispanic Business. He joined the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy and its magazine Miller-McCune (renamed Pacific Standard in 2012), where he served as web editor and later as senior staff writer focusing on covering the environmental and social sciences. During his time with the Miller-McCune Center, he regularly participated in media training courses for scientists in collaboration with the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS), Stanford’s Aldo Leopold Leadership Institute, and individual research institutions.

Philip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy
Insights
December 12, 2023

Philip Rubin: FABBS’ Accidental Essential Man Linking Research and Policy

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Norman Denzin, 1941-2023: The Father of Qualitative Research
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August 11, 2023

Norman Denzin, 1941-2023: The Father of Qualitative Research

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You Can Merge Two Goals: A Talk with Scholar-Activist Gregory Squires
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July 31, 2023

You Can Merge Two Goals: A Talk with Scholar-Activist Gregory Squires

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‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry
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June 19, 2023

‘People Are Going to Seek the Things That Are Kept From Them’: An Interview with Danian Darrell Jerry

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Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason

Attacking Wicked Problems with Hip-Hop: An Interview with Walter Greason

Social Science Space caught up with Walter Greason to discuss hisjourneys, the new book ‘Illmatic Consequences’ he co-edited with Danian Darrell Jerry’, and the current political upheaval circling around the term ‘critical race theory.’

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Looking Back at 2022 on Social Science Space

Looking Back at 2022 on Social Science Space

As is the wont of many media websites, with the end of the year here at Social Science Space, we like to look back at the year-that-was as the-year-that-is-to-be looms.

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Julia O’Connell Davidson on the Hope and the Hypocrisy of Addressing ‘Modern Slavery’

Julia O’Connell Davidson on the Hope and the Hypocrisy of Addressing ‘Modern Slavery’

An interview with Sociologist Julia O’Connell Davidson, who has long examined the various components of exploitation and violence that often get lumped into the catch-all term of outrage, ‘modern slavery.’

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‘Hacking the Status Quo to Pieces’: Stephen Curry on the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment at Age 10

‘Hacking the Status Quo to Pieces’: Stephen Curry on the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment at Age 10

Almost exactly a decade ago, a group of academic journal editors and publishers gathered during the annual meeting of The American Society […]

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What Pieces Most Engaged Social Science Space Visitors in 2021?

What Pieces Most Engaged Social Science Space Visitors in 2021?

The interests of the readers of Social Science Space in 2021 hewed closely to the interests of larger society last year – […]

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Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?

Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?

Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?

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Making a Modern Encyclopedia Into a Tool for Lifelong Learning

Making a Modern Encyclopedia Into a Tool for Lifelong Learning

Creating a modern academic encyclopedia is a labor of love – years of effort that is both conceptual and physical, dozens or even hundreds of writers to corral and then try to control, the ever-present march of time threatening to date all your efforts before anyone see your work, and the possibility that even serious scholars might just Google their question rather than reach for a well-vetted volume.

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‘The Idea of ‘Use’ is Important’: AAPSS and the Role of the Moynihan Prize

‘The Idea of ‘Use’ is Important’: AAPSS and the Role of the Moynihan Prize

Social Science Space took this opportunity of a call for nominations to ask Tom Kecskemethy, executive director of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, about the Moynihan prize specifically and career awards more broadly.

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