This summer, Full Professor @amische.bsky.social and former graduate student @tomasgold.bsky.social (soon-to-be faculty member at @usc.edu) were honored by 3 ASA sections for their AJS paper short-titled “Channeling Anti-Partisan Contention". Huge congrats to these scholars! Read more below.

You have one month left to apply to this! Applications will be reviewed beginning September 22nd, 2025.

Endowed Chair in Demography at the rank of Full Professor at Notre Dame Population Analytics is now open for applications. I highly encourage established faculty with a strong research program and entrepreneurial spirit to apply! @ndsociology.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/171683

Erin McDonnell's (@profmcdonnell.bsky.social) amazing new paper "Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration" is online now at the Annual Review of Sociology. Check it out!!! @ndsociology.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Check out grad student @maurarkraemer.bsky.social's new publication, which uses field theory to explore how high school students’ academic outcomes and educational experiences are related to their engagement in racialized cultural capital-generating activities! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congrats to graduate student @maurarkraemer.bsky.social, whose article "Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates Within Schools as Racialized Organizations" (SSR 2025) received honorable mention for the ASA Soc of Education Best Grad Student Paper Award!

The incomparable David Gibson has started a blog about "talk in the news." Check it out! david-r-gibson.net

Congrats to our colleague, Molly Copeland, and her coauthor, Christina Kamis, on this new publication!

Proud of the crew of @ndsociology.bsky.social MAs and PhDs we graduated today! Hooded three advisees and celebrated the completion of a MA -- so proud of our next gen of scholars! (with @wcarbona.bsky.social & @amische.bsky.social)

The Department of Sociology is thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Muna Adem as Assistant Professor. Welcome to the department, Dr. Adem! sociology.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame is proud to announce the appointments of two exceptional scholars—Tim Hallett and Catherine Riegle-Crumb—as Full Professors. Welcome to the department! @timhallett.bsky.social sociology.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

Also take a look at this coverage in ND Magazine: magazine.nd.edu/stories/smith/

There has been plenty of buzz about our colleague Chris Smith's new book, Why Religion Went Obsolete, including in this opinion article from @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...

📣 Hey sociologists! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame! Deadline is March 31, at 11:59 pm EST. Decision by April 30, 2025. For details and application link, see: apply.interfolio.com/164239

More ND postdoc opportunities! The Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focusing on multiracial democracy. See below for detail and link to apply apply.interfolio.com/164233

Sociology friends and @asanews.bsky.social, Notre Dame Sociology @ndsociology.bsky.social) has a late-breaking postdoc opportunity. Share widely and Apply! alresources.nd.edu/resources/pr...

Check out this coverage of our colleague @abiocobock.bsky.social's new book, Marriage Material, on The Society Pages: thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/02/...

It was huge honor - and somewhat surreal - to give a demography seminar in the very room where @agamoran.bsky.social hooded me with my PhD and where I saw Heckman give a talk once in grad school.

Burawoy on marketization and commodification (from 2016), Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx (2019), and W. E. B. Du Bois’s understanding of the period of Reconstruction (2023). #sociology kpfa.org/episode/agai...

Thanks to @notredame.bsky.social’s "Transformative Open Access Agreement", our colleague @tamkay.bsky.social and coauthors' recent article "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" is now free to read.

Love seeing the new leadership at @soceducation.bsky.social Bill Carbonaro, @annarhaskins.bsky.social and colleagues!

For the third year in a row, NDSoc's Professor Mark Berends has been named one of the top 200 education scholars in the United States, according to the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Published yesterday: an op-ed from Sharon Yoon, concurrent NDSoc and Korean Studies associate professor, and graduate students Saehwan Lee and Paul Lee. @shlee9494.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/5068...

Graduate student Maura Kraemer's recent article uncovers how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations. Until February 15th, you can use this link for free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kL6A,17Ro...

Excited to share that the special issue, "The Catholic Priesthood in Times of Change," in the Review of Religious Research was released this month! This issue features my first solo-authored article, in addition to some other great reads by my colleagues. Check it out!

Grateful for the opportunity return to Somaliland this summer! While there, I will continue to investigate how NGOs in Somaliland overcome the challenges posed by the country's lack of international recognition, navigating a unique landscape of political legitimacy and power.

A number of ND Sociology faculty and students were chosen to be supported by this grant! Congratulations to Ann Mische, Fabian Diaz Maldonaldo, Zhemin Huang, Kraig Beyerlein, and Clare Bath. @clarebath.bsky.social @amische.bsky.social

Appreciate this review of my book from the LSE.

Sociology Associate Professor Steven Alvarado has contributed to this exciting new initiative. See this recent press release for more details on his research, and how ND Pop as a whole aims to promote human flourishing through impactful research that can inform policy and practice.

Apply to be the Dean of Arts and Letters at Notre [email protected] @artslettersnd.bsky.social

Congrats, Julie! sociology.nd.edu/students/jul...

Check out our colleague Abi Ocobock's new book, published last month with the University of Chicago Press! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Check out this paper that @ndsociology.bsky.social's William Carbonaro, Kenya Lee, and Amy Langenkamp recently published in ASR, titled "Racial Inequality in 8th-Grade Math Course-Taking: Between-School Inequality, Local Achievement Queues, and Course Placements." doi.org/10.1177/0003... #sociology

Welcome to ND Sociology's Bluesky account! Follow us for updates about our department news, events, and research. Check out our starter packs to follow our Faculty, Students, and Alums.