Matrix Podcast

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The Matrix Podcast features interviews with social scientists from across the University of California, Berkeley campus (and beyond). It also features recordings of events, including panels and lectures. The Matrix Podcast is produced by Social Science Matrix, an interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Episode Date
Matrix on Point: Spaces for Thriving
Nov 17, 2025
Matrix on Point: Conspiracy Theories
Nov 17, 2025
Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence
Oct 22, 2025
Legitimation by (Mis)identification: Credit, Discrimination, and The Racial Epistemology of Algorithmic Expansion
Oct 21, 2025
New Directions: Borderlands
Oct 21, 2025
Technology and China in the New Political Economy
Jun 12, 2025
Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust
Jun 12, 2025
150 Years of Border Control: The Legacy of the 1875 Page Act
May 20, 2025
Matrix on Point: The New Gender Gap
May 14, 2025
Authors Meet Critics: "Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims"
May 06, 2025
Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial fixes in New Deal South Carolina: Interview with Morgan Vickers
Apr 23, 2025
Consequential Sentences: Computational Analyses of California Parole Hearing Transcripts
Apr 23, 2025
Alex Roehrkasse: The New Contours of Mass Incarceration
Apr 23, 2025
Matrix on Point: Mainstreaming Psychedelics
Apr 10, 2025
The State of Higher Education: Interview with Lorna Finlayson
Mar 24, 2025
Los Angeles Wildfires: Risk, Resilience, and Collective Action
Mar 12, 2025
Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order
Mar 12, 2025
Interview with Julia Sizek: Regulating Off-Roading in the California Desert
Feb 26, 2025
New Directions in the Study of Fringe Politics
Feb 19, 2025
The Future of California Agriculture
Feb 19, 2025
Making Sense of the Elections of 2024
Dec 17, 2024
Gendered Violence in Insurgencies: Interview with Tara Chandra
Dec 16, 2024
New Directions in the Study of Labor
Dec 16, 2024
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
Dec 16, 2024
Authors Meet Critics: "Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China"
Dec 12, 2024
Emotion, Race, and Gender: Interview with Gold Okafor
Dec 04, 2024
Matrix on Point: Shifting Alignments in the 2024 Election
Nov 26, 2024
The Imperiled Place of Universities and Democracy in the USA: Interview with Todd Wolfson
Nov 19, 2024
Matrix on Point: Voices from the Heartland
Nov 11, 2024
Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era
Nov 10, 2024
Matrix on Point: War is Back
Nov 08, 2024
Understanding Academic Freedom: Interview with Hank Reichman
Nov 01, 2024
Authors Meet Critics - Juana María Rodríguez, "Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex"
Oct 24, 2024
Prisoner Labor Legacies: An interview with Elizabeth Hargrett and Xander Lenc
Sep 27, 2024
Agricultural Modernization in China: Interview with Ross Doll and Coleman Mahler
Sep 11, 2024
The Emotions of Dyadic Relationships: An Interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas
May 31, 2024
Sugar and the Transformation of the American West: An Interview with Bernadette Pérez
May 30, 2024
Storytelling and the Climate Crisis
Apr 14, 2024
New Directions in Greening Infrastructure
Apr 14, 2024
Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness
Apr 05, 2024
Authors Meet Critics: "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics," Salar Mameni
Apr 05, 2024
Structural Determinants of Police Violence: Interview with Kimberly Cecilia Burke
Mar 19, 2024
The Scandal of Access: An Interview with Zahra Hayat
Mar 19, 2024
Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation: An Interview with Ryan Brutger
Mar 19, 2024
Understanding Land-based Psychological Trauma in Light of Epistemic Justice
Mar 03, 2024
Authors Meet Critics: "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall," by Andrew Garrett
Feb 05, 2024
Vincent Bevins - "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution"
Jan 28, 2024
Authoritarian Absorption: An Interview with Yan Long
Jan 13, 2024
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830"
Dec 18, 2023
Authors Meet Critics: Sharad Chari, "Gramsci at Sea"
Dec 16, 2023
Authors Meet Critics: Dylan Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights"
Dec 16, 2023
Matrix on Point: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality
Dec 15, 2023
Racial and Ethnic Difference in South Africa and the USSR: An Interview with Hilary Lynd
Dec 13, 2023
California Spotlight: From Boom to Doom in San Francisco
Nov 13, 2023
Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, "Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity"
Nov 10, 2023
Matrix on Point: The Future of College
Oct 21, 2023
War, Diaspora, Bureaucracy: An Interview with Sherine Ebadi
Oct 16, 2023
Voter Turnout in the United States: An Interview with Emily Rong Zhang
Oct 04, 2023
The Binational Politics of Return Migrant Activism: An Interview with Caroline Tracey
Jul 27, 2023
Roundtable with Orlando Patterson: The Nature and Invention of Freedom
Jun 13, 2023
Orlando Patterson: "Slavery and Genocide: The U.S, Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil"
May 22, 2023
Training Bourgeois Selves: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Subsumption of Pederasty
Apr 17, 2023
The Modern American Industrial Strategy: Building a Clean Energy Economy from the Bottom Up and Middle Out
Apr 17, 2023
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Apr 17, 2023
Matrix on Point: Wealth and Taxes
Apr 17, 2023
Jo Guldi: Towards a Practice of Text Mining to Understand Change Over Historical Time
Apr 15, 2023
Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights"
Apr 15, 2023
Economics and Geopolitics in US International Relations: China, Europe, and the Global South
Apr 15, 2023
Matrix on Point: Myths and Misinformation
Apr 15, 2023
To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women's Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Mar 21, 2023
Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
Mar 21, 2023
Matrix Distinguished Lecture: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, "Reimagining Global Integration"
Mar 01, 2023
Authors Meet Critics: Dylan Riley, "Microverses: Observations from a Shattered Present"
Feb 09, 2023
Interview with Adriana Kugler, World Bank Executive Director for the US
Dec 05, 2022
Migration and Reform in Early America: An Interview with J.T. Jamieson
Oct 25, 2022
Reconsidering the Achievement Gap: An Interview with Monica Ellwood-Lowe
Oct 11, 2022
Shifting Inequality and Mass Incarceration
Sep 30, 2022
Economic Benefits of Higher Education: Maximilian Müller and Zach Bleemer
Sep 12, 2022
A Changing Landscape for Farmers in India: An Interview with Tanya Matthan and Aarti Sethi
Aug 31, 2022
Institutionalizing Child Welfare: An Interview with Matty Lichtenstein
Aug 10, 2022
Race, Gender, and Political Speech: An Interview with Gabriella Licata
Aug 01, 2022
Listening to Rwandan Popular Music with Victoria Netanus Grubbs
Apr 10, 2022
What happened to the week? Interview with David Henkin
Mar 30, 2022
Individual Trauma, Social Outcomes
Jan 14, 2022
Science and Socialism in Cuba
Jan 09, 2022
Genetic Ancestry Testing and Reconnection: Interview with Dr. Victoria Massie
Nov 04, 2021
Politics of Indigeneity in El Salvador
Oct 07, 2021
A New Voice for Black History: Xavier Buck, PhD
Sep 16, 2021
Porn, Privacy, and Digital Dissidence in Senegal
Sep 09, 2021
The Past and Present of Teletherapy
Sep 02, 2021
Matrix Podcast: Interview with Youjin Chung
Jun 09, 2021
Social Science Matrix Podcast: Interview with Rebecca Herman, Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Feb 07, 2021
Social Science Matrix Podcast: Interview with Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley
Jan 05, 2021
Social Science Matrix Podcast: Interview with Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Nov 16, 2020
Social Science Matrix: Brittany Birberick
Jun 16, 2020
Social Science Matrix Podcast: Mariane Ferme
Jun 12, 2020
Social Science Matrix Podcast: Desiree Fields
Jun 10, 2020
Social Science Matrix Podcast: Interview with Dacher Keltner
Apr 08, 2020