On Big Dirty Money, Bodies Out of Place and Current Affairs Featuring Jennifer Taub, Barbara Harris Combs and Areva Martin
In this episode, Jennifer Taub, author of Big Dirty Money, explains the effects of white collar crime on society; Barbara Harris Combs, author of Bodies Out of Place, talks about how society seeks to control African Americans and Attorney Areva Martin gives her takes on current issues people are talking about. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/erik-fleming1/support
Jennifer Taub
Jennifer Taub is a legal scholar and advocate, devoted to making complex business law topics engaging inside and outside of the classroom. She is also the author of two books: Big Dirty Money and Other People’s Houses. Her research and writing focus on corporate governance, banking and financial market regulation, and white collar crime. Similarly, her advocacy centers on “follow the money” matters –– promoting transparency and opposing corruption. She is a professor at Vermont Law School where she teaches Contracts, Corporations, Securities Regulation, and White Collar Crime. She previously has been appointed Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School to teach a section of the course Corporations and the reading group White Collar Crime and Public Corruption.
Barbara Harris Combs
Barbara Harris Combs received her Ph.D. in Sociology with a concentration in race and urban studies from Georgia State University in 2010. She also holds a Juris Doctorate degree from The Ohio State University and an MA in English from Xavier University (Ohio). She brings this interdisciplinary background to her study of society. Her research focuses on the role place (as a geographical, social/cultural, and class construct) has on modern identity formation and human relations, especially race relations. She is the author of From Selma to Montgomery: The Long March to Freedom, a book about the Selma campaign for voting rights. The book chronicles the marches, placing them in the context of the long Civil Rights Movement, and considers the legacy of the Voting Rights Act, drawing parallels with contemporary issues of enfranchisement. Her current book project, Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti Blackness in U.S. Society (University of Georgia Press) will be released in fall 2022. She has published in a variety of academic journals including, Critical Sociology, Sociological Spectrum, American Behavioral Scientist, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Journal of Urban Affairs, and others.
