Sociology chair @JHUArtsSciences; Study democracy @SNFAgoraJHU. Before: @UNCSociology @IAH_UNC. @SwatAlum and @UCBerkeley alum. Opinions my own. #GoHeels
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Jun 11
Congrats to Zophia Edwards of @JHUArtsSciences sociology for winning the Distinguished Scholarly Book award for _Fueling Development_ (dukeupress.edu/fueling-devel… )
Jun 11
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 ASA Awards, the highest honors the association confers. bit.ly/ASA26Awards
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I haven’t read the Vanderbilt report yet, but look forward to doing so. Right now I’m amused that it’s either groundbreaking and brilliant or utter trash, depending mostly on what the reader already thought before they read it.
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Careful, important historical work on Johns Hopkins (the person) and the subtleties of history by @SydneyVanMorgan open.substack.com/pub/houseo…
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May 29
Important points! Root cause is that there is no clear bounds on “faculty” and no theoretically defensible measure of individual ideology. Best it can be is a proxy for the universe of ideas considered and debated on campus which is the right concept to care about.
May 29
There is no such thing as a perfect measure of faculty ideology.
Surveys: low response rates, social desirability
Twitter follows (i.e. Barberá 2015): many academics have left the platform
Donations: many faculty don't donate
So any measure needs to come with, at minimum, very serious caveats.
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A few more thoughts on my reasons for opposing having @ASAnews vote on the proposed boycott: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
Apr 13
the @ASAnews should not hold a vote on the boycott proposal. Statement from a group of sociologists: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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If you’d like to sign on to the statement, visit docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… .
The current full list of signatories can be found at docs.google.com/spreadsheets… .
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Come work with us - we are hiring for a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor cluster in Computational Social Science! apply.interfolio.com/185940
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Apr 30
Tell me more about how politicians' recent attacks on sociology are to blame for the declining enrollments that go back [checks notes] more than a decade.
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Apr 17
As a candidate for office in the American Sociological Association, I've been asked to provide a statement on a proposed academic boycott of Israel. Here it is:
Academic boycott of Israel and the American Sociological Association politicsoutdoors.com/2026/04… via @davidsmeyer1
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Apr 14
Don't outsource civil discourse - my latest in the @ChronicleReview with @chrislundberg chronicle.com/article/with-d…
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Congratulations @allison_pugh of @JHUArtsSciences Sociology, recipient of a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship! gf.org/stories/announcing-th…
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Apr 13
the @ASAnews should not hold a vote on the boycott proposal. Statement from a group of sociologists: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/0…
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Feb 26
While you wasted your time pursuing your cute little passion of learning to code, I received a real education in the liberal arts.
Peter Thiel on who is most likely to lose their jobs to AI:
"It seems much worse for the math people than the word people.”
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Feb 27
NIH is not issuing awards. You may think that it's because they it is coming up with new directions of research...The apposite is true.
Here is a graph showing how many fewer new funding opportunities that NIH has posted over time.
-91%, a trend that started on Jan 2025.
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When faculty feel alone in the classroom and uncertainty clouds academic freedom, it’s a reminder of how vital trust, transparency, and community really are.
UNC faculty member Dr. Mimi Chapman describes this experience.
Read more here: ow.ly/TrBm50YmHyb
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Feb 11
If higher education should focus on civic education as part of its commitment to the public good, what should that civic education look like? And how will we know if we have been successful in designing and providing it? cfau.aei.org/civic-education…
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Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
swarthmore.edu/understanding…
ALT image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”
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Jan 16
A conversation about “viewpoint diversity” in the academy with me and three other scholars - in today’s @chronicle chronicle.com/article/four-s…
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Jan 15
The Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others huffpost.com/entry/minnesota…
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An ICE agent fired multiple shots at Renee Nicole Good, murdering her at point blank range. Rep. Pressley just offered a subpoena in the Oversight committee for all information from DHS related to her murder today in Minneapolis. Republicans blocked it. We need answers.
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