Being Dr. Jessie Daniels

Roderick Graham
1 min readJul 19, 2023

The next episode in my “Being” series is with renowned digital sociologist Dr. Jessie Daniels.

In this series, I have two goals:

  1. To learn how my guests how they “came to be.”
  2. Have them discuss their views on issues in society.

I’ve done several of these on my YouTube channel, and I am sharing them now in my newsletter.

I believe my profession has been unjustly mischaracterized and, in some cases, demonized in conservative media. In response, I am focusing more on academics — especially social scientists. It is my small attempt to push back against what I think is a damaging narrative.

These conversations are meant to humanize the academic in the viewer’s eyes and inform an audience about new insights from the Ivory Tower.

https://youtu.be/djytd8mvptw

My previous two conversations were with Dr. Mark Fabian, where we focused on well-being and public policy:

https://youtu.be/9N5_gWue_28

And Dr. Rebecca Sear on health inequality:

https://youtu.be/abwN1FjwqdI

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Roderick Graham

Gadfly | Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own