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Tyler Leeds @Tyler_Leeds

assistant professor at @UDelaware working on media, theory, and politics. Retired journalist

Joined February 2014
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For what should be his 78th birthday, here’s a brief reflection on Michael Burawoy’s mentorship and friendship tylerleeds.org/the-real-utop…

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The Real Utopia at 320 Lee

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14 Feb 2025
After his tragic death earlier this month, Marxist sociologist Michael Burawoy left behind not only a formidable body of scholarship but also a model of how to pursue a form of sociology informed by and informing efforts for social change. jacobin.com/2025/02/michael-…

Michael Burawoy Never Wavered

After his tragic death earlier this month, Marxist sociologist Michael Burawoy left behind not only a formidable body of scholarship but also a model of how to pursue a form of sociology informed by...

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12 Feb 2025
Two days after Michael was killed, I wrote this short piece about what he meant to me – and more importantly, what he meant to us. It was the hardest thing I've ever written. Thanks to @VersoBooks for running it. versobooks.com/blogs/news/th…

The Sociologist and the Critic: Remembering Michael Burawoy

It is often said that no one loved sociology as much as Michael Burawoy. In the wake of his tragic killing on Monday, at least, we’ve seen a comparable claim in many of the tributes from those who...

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New open access article out in New Media & Society on the blending of influencer and advertising tactics to promote right-wing partisan knowledge journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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I situate an immensely influential video-centered organization in research on partisan think tanks before analyzing hundreds of ads it ran on Meta platforms attacking the 1619 Project to show its fusion of emotional and intellectual appeals
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The article draws on the great work of many colleagues, including @beccalew @PeckReece
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Zachary Levenson@grundrza
26 Jul 2024
In honor of Michael Burawoy's retirement, @JoshSeim and I wrote this polemical defense of theory-driven ethnography for @CritSoc. Against those who deride this approach as heavy-handed deductivism, we argue that... journals.sagepub.com/doi/epu…
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I am excited to share a new article that draws on the thought of Stuart Hall to outline a heuristic for orienting right-wing studies. It's open access from @UCBerkeleyCRWS's Journal of Right-Wing Studies escholarship.org/uc/item/6kd…
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And I'm honored by the company I keep in the full special issue; big thanks to the incredible issue editors @clarajuarezmiro @isisgiraldoa and @ajbauer
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ASA Sociology@ASAnews
26 Jun 2024
Michael Burawoy @UCBerkeley is the recipient of the 2024 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, which honors scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to sociology & whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to advancement of discipline.
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A.J. Bauer@ajbauer
25 Jun 2024
I've been working with @clarajuarezmiro and @isisgiraldoa on a special issue of the new Journal of Right-Wing Studies (@UCBerkeleyCRWS) and it's finally in proofs. Looking forward to sharing this incredible collection soon!
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the article parses how Fox News helped spark the #1619 panic as well as an interesting period in which CNN and MSNBC referenced the Project to bring a social scientific imagination into their broadcasts 2/4
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it's also an attempt to think with Stuart Hall and bring his thinking more centrally into US sociology 3/4
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thanks to a few on here for their help including @Meghan_M_Shea @rodneybensonnyu @CihanTugal @mryshi and many off, especially my amazing undergrad RAs 4/4
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sociology and media studies friends, take a look at my new paper "The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News" out in @socprobsjournal academic.oup.com/socpro/adva… 1/4

The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News

Abstract. The U.S. right is in the throes of a moral panic over the study of race and racism in schools. This panic developed in part through the backlash

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sociology pals, I'm excited to share that a long-simmering project that rethinks Bourdieu through the biomedical literature on pain is online at @SocTheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… 1/2
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this (open access!) paper grew out of my inability to see my own experience with a chronic pain condition through the concept of habitus as Bourdieu theorized it — it wouldn't have been possible without the support of many friends at @UCBerkeley 2/2
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Raka Ray@rakaberkeley
20 Sep 2023
I am delighted to announce a $100K gift from @UCBerkeley Sociology alumna Suava Zbierski-Salameh to establish the Michael Burawoy Endowment for Sociology to honor the remarkable career of Berkeley Sociology Prof. Emeritus Michael Burawoy.
UC Berkeley Sociology Prof. Emeritus Michael Burawoy

ALT UC Berkeley Sociology Prof. Emeritus Michael Burawoy

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No wonder Poole is off to a slow start this season! @sfchronicle
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Lauren Kaori Gurley@LaurenKGurley
22 Nov 2022
NEW: The state of California found that the University of California broke the law by failing to bargain in good faith with academic workers' union on 6 accounts, including by making unilateral changes to worker pay, according to @uaw2865 Today is day 9 of their strike.
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