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Larry Au
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at City College, CUNY

Politics of expertise in science and medicine

Learn more: http://larryau.com
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Submissions for #SASE2026 in Bordeaux closes on Dec 16. Consider submitting a paper to the Health Network. Happy to chat about fit and more about our meetings!

Submit here: sase.org/events/2026-...
🩺 Inside the Network: Health Network T examines how health and medicines are shaped by political economy, economic sociology, organizational studies, socioeconomics, and related fields. The network studies how institutions, markets, and social actors structure the production and distribution of health across societies. 🧪 Political economy and the production of medicines Research explores how states, firms, and innovators develop new drugs and health technologies in both high and low resource settings, and how these strategies influence health outcomes globally. 🏥 Organizing and the organization of health systems This area looks at healthcare markets, insurance systems, medical devices, patient-physician relationships, the rise of health intermediaries, and emerging applications of artificial intelligence in medicine. 📊 Pricing and valuation Scholars investigate how value is assigned to treatments, pharmaceuticals, and care delivery. Work includes financialization, pricing, access to medicines, and the contested authority of medical expertise. 🏛 Public policy and access to healthcare Research focuses on how national and global institutions shape access to care, how policies respond to structural causes of health inequality, and how cross-national differences influence health outcomes. Network T offers an interdisciplinary space for researchers seeking to understand how political, economic, and social structures shape health systems and the conditions of well-being. Learn more about Network T: https://lnkd.in/gz8ps8sD Network T Health is accepting submissions for SASE 2026 in Bordeaux, deadline 16 December 2025: https://lnkd.in/g5DVMM7h #InsideTheNetwork #SASE #SASECommunity #HealthResearch #HealthInnovation #Drugs #Medicines #HealthTech #Healthcare #Pharma #PoliticalEconomy #SocioEconomics #EconomicSociology #HealthSystems #GlobalHealthPolicy #MarketsandSociety #Valuation #Innovation Kathryn Ibata-Arens Etienne NOUGUEZ Larry Au Steven Casper
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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For CUNY folks: The China at CUNY Initiative (CACI) is recruiting Fellows for Spring 2026. CACI aims to integrate China Studies into the curriculum across CUNY campuses. The fellowship provides support to graduate students teaching their own courses.

More information: chinacuny.org/spring2026/
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Got this plaque today, and had a chance to talk about my book project! 🏆
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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📖 Consider nominating yourselves or others for the Robert K. Merton Book Award from @asaskat.bsky.social. Books published in 2024 or 2025 are eligible.

Looking forward to reading this year's nominations!

More info: asaskat.com/call-for-awa...
Robert K. Merton Book Award Deadline: 1/15/2026 The Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2026 Robert K. Merton Book Award. The award is given annually in recognition of an outstanding book on science, knowledge, and/or technology published during the preceding two years (2025 or 2024). Single or multi-authored works are eligible, but not edited volumes. The winner will be honored at the ASA Annual Meeting in New York City (August 2026). The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2026. Nominations or requests for more information should be sent to the committee chair, Larry Au (lau1@ccny.cuny.edu). No nominating statement or letter is required (nor will be considered as part of the committee’s review of nominations). Print copies of nominated books must be received by all committee members by February 15, 2026. Please contact the committee chair for mailing addresses. All nominees must be registered members of the ASA and SKAT to be considered for this award.
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🗞️ NYC-area researchers, come join us for the TASKS (Theory and Analysis in Science, Knowledge, and Society) Workshop this Fall. Papers on AI governance, self-tracking devices, air pollution and climate change, and Chinese investment capital in the US.

🔗 More info: tasks.commons.gc.cuny.edu
September 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Weekend lecture prep on the history of medicine, condensing this book into 2.5 hours of class time
September 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Kicked off our Fall seminar series at the China at CUNY Initiative last week with talks from faculty affiliates on Chinese immigrant tech workers, public opinion in China, and stratified citizenship and labor protests.

Exciting semester ahead: chinacuny.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Required reading for this semester’s class 📖
August 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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#ASA2025 regular sessions on Knowledge were fantastic! Wonderful mix of undergraduate (!) and graduate students, junior and senior faculty.

Kudos to @runzach.bsky.social @peterore.bsky.social serving as discussants and putting the papers in conversation.

No more regular sessions at ASA next year!
August 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Knowledge #2: Scientific and Social Scientific Knowledge

Mon, Aug 11, 2-3:30pm, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Grand Hall H

Link 🔗: tinyurl.com/26qc98oa
August 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🔊 Organizing two regular sessions at #ASA2025 this year on Knowledge. Come by!

Knowledge #1: Data, Risk, and Knowledge in Health Policy

Sun, Aug 10, 12-1:30pm, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Atlanta

Link 🔗: tinyurl.com/242ch2h9
August 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I do not offer Spanish tutoring in my Research Methods class. The joys of student teaching evaluations. 😅
Course comments from students stating that they benefited from Spanish tutoring
June 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Honored to receive one of the Henry Wasser Awards from the CUNY Academy, given to outstanding junior faculty across our 22 campuses!

More info: www.gc.cuny.edu/cuny-academy...
Sociology Professor Larry Au is being recognized with one of this year's Henry Wasser Awards for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors in CUNY. The Feliks Gross Endowment Awards are named after two of the CUNY Academy's founding members, Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser. Every year, CUNY selects recipients from among a large group of highly qualified, academically impressive Assistant Professors from all its campuses. Professor Au's research examines the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the production of biomedical knowledge, and asks how clinicians and scientists can better serve their patients and the public. His work has focused on two main areas: the globalization of precision medicine, and the politics of expertise around Long Covid. He is also currently working on a book under contract with Columbia University Press, titled Dreams of Global Science: The Transnational Politics of Chinese Biomedical Innovation which explores the ideals of globalization in science and its inherent inequalities. As part of the award ceremony, Professor Au will present his research in a talk alongside other awardees during the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser lecture series, where the award will also be officially conferred.
May 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Learned a lot from David Ho’s keynote dialogue at the PRI Innovation Showcase 🔬:

- Tell the difference between dogma/truth, should/could

- His team moved into Columbia dorms in 2020 so they could research

- Receives daily recruitment emails now from Europe and Asia with U.S science in question
Photo of David Ho being interviewed with his 1996 Time cover on screen
May 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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New foster Boo (left) adoptable soon through Korean K9 Rescue www.koreank9rescue.org/adopt/
Two dogs in front of a stoop
April 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Spring break book writing retreat upstate ✍️
Writing book with laptop and dog
April 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Happy 50th birthday Vassar STS!
Program for celebration of Vassar STS’s 50th anniversary
April 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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NYC area STS researchers, Joan Robinson and I have a newly launched workshop (TASKS, Theory and Analysis in Science, Knowledge, and Society) that meets to discuss working papers from about a dozen or so participants.

If you’re interested in joining, reach out!

tasks.commons.gc.cuny.edu/schedule/
Spring 2025 All spring meetings will be held from 11 am to 12:30 pm at 25 Broadway, 7th Floor, at the CCNY Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. Please email Joan Robinson (jrobinson1@ccny.cuny.edu) to arrange for building access if you are not affiliated wth CUNY. January 17: Prash Naidu (City College, CUNY) – Introduction in Sea Change: Sensory Practices and Environmental Relations in Oceania Feb 28: Abigail Coplin (Vassar College) March 14: Alyson Spurgas (Trinity College) March 28: Li Ke (John Jay College, CUNY) April 11 or 25: To be confirmed May 16: Peter Ore (Queen’s College, CUNY)
February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Found Luigi
December 21, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Went on Fox and Friends this morning with our foster Julie 😅

Maybe she’ll be in the next administration…
Two dogs in Christmas gear Hosts of Fox and friends talking to a vet from petco with four dogs being held in background Dogs on set Dogs on set
November 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Great gift idea💡

www.etsy.com/listing/1377...
A stamp and chop that says From the library of Larry Au
November 25, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Picked up a new foster, Julie! Available for adoption soon. She’ll also be on national TV on Thursday 🤫

www.koreank9rescue.org/adopt/
Two dogs: one white with a black patch, the other beige and wearing a grey sweater posing for a photo together
November 24, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Had fun speaking at the Biology Colloquium Series and visiting my science colleagues across the street!
Poster for talk about Off Label Uses of Genetic Testing
November 18, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Spotted in my conference swag bag for the International Forum for Research Excellence in DC this weekend! @alondra.bsky.social
“The problems that we have I the world don’t respect academic borders. Our solutions don’t as well.” - Alondra Nelson
November 17, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Will be in DC this Friday to talk about "Reversing Society's Declining Trust in Science" at the International Forum on Research Excellence (www.experienceifore.org), drawing on our collaborative work on Long Covid. An exciting lineup of speakers and keynotes!
November 11, 2024 at 8:33 PM