Joshua Silver
Joshua Silver B.A., International Relations, University of Chicago
M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago Email Interests:

Comparative/Historical/Macro Sociology, Economic Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Social Studies of Knowledge, Social Theory, Urban Sociology, Work/Occupations
Doctoral Candidate (2019)

I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago, Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Rice University. I’m currently conducting an ethnographic study of the energy industry in transition in Houston and the Gulf Coast. I also serve as book review editor for the American Journal of Sociology. In addition to my written scholarly work, I am completing my first feature-length documentary film, Laurentian, a visual ethnography of communities tied together by the changing fisheries ecosystem of the Great Lakes.

Recent Research / Recent Publications

Recent Publications

Joshua Silver. Forthcoming. “The Ecological Sociology of Radhakamal Mukerjee.” In Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan, eds. Anticolonialism and Social Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Joshua Silver and Claudio Benzecry. 2022. “Editor’s Love: Matching, Reading, and the Editorial Self-Concept.” In Angelica Thumala Olave, ed. The Cultural Sociology of Reading. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

William A. Birdthistle and Joshua Silver. 2021. “Funding Crises: An Empirical Study of the Paycheck Protection Program.”  Buffalo Law Review.