Lecturers

Alex Manning:  Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Alex Manning is a research scholar and lecturer, who teaches courses on racism, sports, families, and abolition. His research explores the dynamic collisions among race/racism, families, youth, sport, and culture. He is currently developing his dissertation, “Beyond Orange Slices: The Contested Terrain of Youth Soccer Culture in the United States”, into a book manuscript. In this project, he uses ethnography and interviewing to interrogate how racism/race, class, gender, and cultural norms of parenting and youth development are experienced, embedded, and challenged in the dynamic field of youth sport. His scholarship has been featured in journals and edited volumes such as the Du Bois Review, the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Inquiry, Sociology Compass, European Journal of Sport and Society, Sociological Perspectives, and Child’s Play: Sport in Kids’ Worlds.

Federico Brandmayr: Lecturer of Political Science and Sociology at Yale

Federico Brandmayr’s work focuses on the politics of expertise—the contested production of expert knowledge and its reception and use by various groups, with an emphasis on knowledge about crime, terrorism, and political extremism. This focus forms the basis of his current book project. Federico also investigates the contemporary distrust of (social) scientific experts, particularly within the Italian context, and studies philosophical critiques of the role played by science and technology in modern societies. Additionally, he is interested in the history of the social sciences, the sociology of professions and intellectuals, and social and political theory. His articles have been published in Sociological Theory, Science, Technology, & Human Values, Social Epistemology, the European Journal of Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory, and elsewhere. Federico holds degrees in political science and sociology from the University of Trieste, Italy, and Sorbonne University in Paris, and has conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge, the MacMillan Center at Yale, and LUISS University in Rome.