Sociologist of health, race, and punishment

Joined July 2009
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Check out my study examining reactions to seeing the confederate flag by race, region, and before & after the 2015 Charleston massacre doi.org/10.1080/02732173.202…

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Vanderbilt Sociology has been a phenomenal professional home for the past five years. However, this fall, I'm looking forward to the new adventures ahead in this next stage of my professional career at UT-Austin! x.com/UTAustinSoc/status/150…

We are thrilled to announce that @ChristyLErving (Vanderbilt) is joining UT Austin Sociology as an Associate Professor in fall 2022. Welcome, Christy! 🎉
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Mental health takes a toll on the incarcerated — and their families. nbcnews.to/39qcQS8

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Two of my fabulous @VUSociology colleagues, Evelyn Patterson and @RyanTalbert (soon to be at U Conn), along with Rice's Tony Brown, just published a paper in Journal of Marriage and Family. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

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"If America is coming apart, the 1850s provide poignant lessons. That decade was the only time in our history when the nation dissolved, militarized, and ultimately went to war over competing visions of the future," David W. Blight writes: on.theatln.tc/KcD8DKk
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Historians say it's the only successful coup in #US #history, when white supremacists overthrew the Reconstruction-era gov't. in Wilmington in 1898. charlotteobserver.com/news/p…

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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing of the ground"
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White supremacist group plans weekend meeting in Nashville sp.lc/R6VNK
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White Americans say protests are a good thing — except when the protesters are black wapo.st/1NnWBCv

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26 Jun 2015
Pres. Obama: Removing the Confederate flag would be acknowledgement that the cause for which it is was fought under was wrong.
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19 Jun 2015
These Republicans aren't sure what motivated a white guy to kill 9 black churchgoers, but it wasn't racism huff.to/1LmbELH

Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff charlotteobserver.com/news/l…
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Our thoughts are with all those affected by the Charleston AME tragedy.
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@__LaidbackLuke @bomani_jones Patty Mills
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I'm a duke basketball fan till death BUT UNC chapel campus >>> DUKES
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10 May 2015
Mother's day history is steeped in radical, religious feminism huff.to/1JZo1j9
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