
MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND APPEARANCES
Podcast Interview on “Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought,” ASA Journal Featured Article Podcast. July 2025
“Author Katherine Jensen discusses the article, “Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought: Content and Structure in the United States” published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.”

What the United States Can Learn From Brazil About Asylum, Mother Jones

- New Books Network Podcast, Mobilities and Methods on “The Color of Asylum,” 2023
- “Her Turn” WORT Madison Public Radio, 2022
- Channel 3000 News, on abortion access and reproductive justice in Wisconsin, 2022
- “¿El voto negro define la elección?” Clarín, 2020
- Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City,The University of Texas Press Podcasts
- “UT professor, graduate students release book about Austin’s ‘Invisible’,” The Daily Texan
- “Black Brazil Never Slept,” Contexts Magazine Podcasts
- “What I Did During My Summer Vacation…,” Life & Letters Magazine
PRESS AND COVERAGE
Hot Reads: 9 Books to Read this Summer, College of Letters and Science, UW-Madison

- “Refuge and race,” The Latin American Review of Books
- “Immigration Reading List Summer 2023,” Austin Kocher Substack
- “Académica Katherine Jensen presentó su libro The Color of Asylum,” Universidad Central Chile, Facultad de Economía, Gobierno, y Comunicaciones
- “Emerging Voices in Migration Scholarship,” USC Equity Research Institute
- “Racism, Police Brutality in Brazil,” Other Sociologist
- “First generation grad student, alum delves into research,” The Miscellany News
Invisible in Austin
- “Books About Austin: Reader’s Picks,” The Guardian
- “‘Welcome to Austin, Don’t Move Here’,” The Guardian
- “Los Miserables: Texas Finally Finds its Victor Hugo and John Steinbeck–in the halls of the academy,” Texas Monthly
- “To Understand Race and Place, Here’s Where to Start,” CityLab/Bloomberg
- “Revealing Austin’s invisible workforce,” Austin American-Statesman
- KUT Radio’s Book of the Month, April 2018
- “Dan is Moving to Austin. Here Are 27 Books You Suggested for Him and Other Newcomers,” KUT Radio
- “Out of the Shadows: Alongside festivals and food trucks, scarcity is a big part of Austin,” Austin Monthly
- No. 4 of 5 Key Moments at Sunday Texas Book Festival, Austin American-Statesman
