Joshua Silver

I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago and a Visiting Scholar at Rice University. My scholarly interests include urban and environmental sociology, political economy, science & technology studies, and social theory. 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 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.

Publications: “The Ecological Sociology of Radhakamal Mukerjee” in Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan, eds. Anticolonialism and Social Thought. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming; “Editor’s Love: Matching, Reading, and the Editorial Self-Concept” with Claudio Benzecry in Angelica Thumala Olave, ed. The Cultural Sociology of Reading. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; "Funding Crises: An Empirical Study of the Paycheck Protection Program” with William A. Birdthistle in Buffalo Law Review, 2021.