JOSH SEIM

I'm a sociologist at Boston College, where I broadly focus on issues related to work, medicine, welfare, punishment, and more. I also frequently write about pedagogy and ethnographic methods. 

My research has appeared in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Punishment and Society, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Critical Sociology, Teaching Sociology, and other outlets. 

I am the author of The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City (University of California Press 2026) and Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering (University of California Press 2026).