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‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

By Camille Gamboa | Published: June 17, 2013

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

Quirk Theory – Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

By Social Science Space | Published: May 10, 2011

A new book by Alexandra Robbins looks at social science research about what ‘popularity’ means, why cliques rule schools and how individual kids navigate their social subcultures. In an interview on LiveScience, the author talks about ‘quirk theory’ – the observation that many of the differences that lead children to exclude each other socially in school are the […]

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