Well this is exciting! Honored to win this year's award at NASSH!

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 🥳📚 Celebrate by ordering the TACKLING THE EVERYDAY audiobook on @libro.fm or the physical book from @bookshop.org to support your local bookstore!

In the lead up to the #WorldCup, pick up a copy of "Kicking" by @julesboykoff.bsky.social, which considers the beautiful game at its best and worst. Save 30% now! buff.ly/ndMhAz9

Plenary Session 1 with @traciecanada.bsky.social is underway! #Sociology #Academia

Honored and excited to host @traciecanada.bsky.social on Thursday here at WashU. If you are in the area, join us for a great conversation! amcs.wustl.edu/events/sport...

This week, I look forward to joining @sportanthro.bsky.social for a convo about my book 😊🏈 INSA seems like a great space for @nasssbsky.bsky.social folks to check out. Learn more at sportanthro.org and maybe I’ll see you on Thursday!

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

The #BlackInNeuroSeminarSeries is back! ✨ Join us Feb 27 for a talk by Dr. Tracie Canada (Duke University) on culture, research & more. 🧠 9AM PST | 12PM EST Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #BINSeminar

Hey, that’s me! Check me out in all these cool places, talking about my book and research Thanks to NPR’s Due South, CSPAN’s Book TV, and ESPN’s Andscape for the time and space to discuss race and college football

Making plans for MSS? Make sure to check out one of our amazing #Plenary speakers: Tracie Canada! @traciecanada.bsky.social will be presenting her #Research on the lived experiences of #Black #College #Football players. #MSS26 #Sociology #Anthropology #SocialScience

Always appreciate a good Lee Baker shout out

It's almost time! So excited to celebrate my book's birthday this week--The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance (Rutgers UP) is coming soon - Tues Jan 13th! 🤭📚 @rutgersupress.bsky.social Pre-order here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-quiet-zo...

"Reclaiming Durham's Narrative: Scholarship, Service, and the Spirit of Dr. Moore," January 22, 2026, 12-1:30 pm. Panel on Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore, physician, educator, civic visionary, and founder of the Durham Colored Library. Open to public.

Need something to listen to on your lunch break? Tune in today, Dec 11, to my interview on @wunc.org’s Due South! It will air at 12:15pm & 8:15pm EST, and then will post later as a podcast episode🎙️ Check out the livestream at www.wunc.org or listen live at 91.5FM in the Triangle

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

“HIPAA, the federal health privacy law, doesn’t apply to the companies behind popular chatbots. Legally, said Bradley Malin… “you’re basically waiving any rights that you have with respect to medical privacy,” leaving only the protections that a given company chooses to offer.”

"I think plenty of people write about the men that surround football b/c that's the expectation. Mothers not only give bodies to the sport, they’re giving birth to these players. They're also caring for them in a way that's different from the other people around them" - @traciecanada.bsky.social

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

¡Buenos días, #AMSTD2025 attendees! We're thrilled to be in San Juan for the annual American Studies Association conference! Drop by our booth to see our wide selection of books on American Studies. And visit our website to save 40% on all books on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...

So great to be back in The Big Easy for @americananthro.bsky.social's annual meeting! Drop by our booth and check out our latest books in Anthro! Also be sure to check out our AAA website and find out how to save 40% on our displayed titles: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a... #AAA2025NOLA

Are you in New Orleans for AAA? Come to my last book event of the year, where brilliant colleagues have generously agreed to discuss my @ucpress.bsky.social book. Huge thanks to Lee D. Baker, Adia Benton, Chelsey R. Carter, Laurence Ralph, and Todne Thomas! See you Sunday! 😊 #ABAxTA_NOLA

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Hello #AAA2025NOLA attendees! A heads up that at 8:30AM tomorrow our very own editor Kate Marshall will be on the following panel: Event: 1886 - Anthropologists Writing Trade Books Type: Roundtable/Town Hall Time: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Location: Sheraton, Napoleon BR B3 (3rd fl)

I’m honored that the work I do writing for and communicating with multiple audiences has been recognized with an honorable mention for the GAD New Directions Award! This is special to me because it recognizes a critical element of my scholarship that is often downplayed in academia

Check out this clip from my interview on @endofsportpod.bsky.social about my book Full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQ3...

‼️Today ICE comes to the NC Triangle To report activity &/or request support, call Siembra NC’s hotline: 📞 336-543-0352 It’s a 1st line of contact for collective fights & resources for our community Please share indyweek.com/news/northca... Siembra NC Hotline: www.siembranc.org/la-migra-hot...

College football is defined by “corporeal concern,” explains @traciecanada.bsky.social on @endofsportpod.bsky.social.

After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore “There’s no downcast eyes. There’s no one looking away...There is not a single figure that we encounter in her work that carries a gaze of ‘I don’t belong.’” wapo.st/4i0ukaB

Join Profs. @traciecanada.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social and me Wed. 10/29 at 3:30 Eastern, for a webinar on promoting our scholarship for a wider impact. Free for @americananthro.bsky.social members, small fee for non-members. Click link to register. #anthropology #publicanthropology #writing

Will you be at the Boston Book Festival today? Come see me at 2pm! I’ll be on a great panel about sports, rivalry, and culture. More details here: sched.co/27cJa #BBF2025

I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things. One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well. Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.

It’s always gratifying to learn that someone else was able to internalize less BS because they encountered my discussion of know-your-place aggression. (And many thanks to friends who made sure I saw this!) www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...

It’s been a busy and fun semester, traveling around to talk about “Tackling the Everyday” (@ucpress.bsky.social), and I’m not done yet 🤓🤓

“Everybody is so caught up in their own research, nobody has the time, even if they agree something doesn’t sound right, to devote to trying to debunk it,” said Smoliga, who now works in Tufts University’s physical therapy program, in an interview. “I did.” Bravo & thank you @jsmoliga.bsky.social

October book club registration is open!

We're hiring a postdoc in Duke GSF!! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

Thanks so much to @nkalamb.bsky.social and @derekcrim.bsky.social at the @endofsportpod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about my book. This is a wide-ranging conversation that really gets at my main arguments, so I appreciate the time and space. Give us a listen!

Happening today!

Check out my interview with @blackagendareport.bsky.social, where I got to describe my @ucpress.bsky.social book, connect it to what’s currently happening in college sports, and pitch the idea of un-learning the “football team as family” and “student-athlete” narratives

Happening today! Atlanta: come out and see us at 6:30pm

And the traveling begins! Today I join History & Sociology at GA Tech to kick off their fall 25 Speaker Series. Looking forward to talking to grad students, learning about their Sports, Society, and Tech Program, and discussing my book. Thanks to their organizing committee for the generous invite!

NC friends, I have a local event soon! If you’d like to learn more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book and get a copy signed, join me on Tuesday, Sept 16 at 6pm at Golden Fig Books in CARRBORO I’ll be in convo with author and documentary producer Javier Wallace Link below. Come see us!!

A new semester means new events! Looking forward to joining @profsuddler.bsky.social in Atlanta in a couple weeks to talk about my book. Thanks to @acappellabooks.bsky.social and the Auburn Avenue Research Library for sponsoring! If you’re in town, I’d love to see you on September 9 at 6:30pm 📚📖

At 25, most NFL players are entering retirement. How do they navigate life post-football? On @friendslikeus.bsky.social talk with @traciecanada.bsky.social on the 'The Harsh Reality of NFL Careers.' Make sure to buy: #TacklingTheEveryday Listen And Learn: sites.libsyn.com/54294/amplif... #NFL

"Without moms, the whole thing would go away." - @traciecanada.bsky.social , author of "Tackling The Everyday", joins basketball mom Ashima Franklin who shares her experiences raising a sports star. #MamaBear #TacklingTheEveryday

What a fun interview! Check me out on @friendslikeus.bsky.social, chatting with two hilarious comedians about Black football players and their moms

Here’s testimony from a walk-on power four college football player that his coach doesn’t know his name or number and the team has the the wrong birthday listed for him such that they wish him happy bday non the wrong day. Pretty fucked up! [From @traciecanada.bsky.social’s Tackling the Everyday.]

The best possible response to my work. Thanks to Yussuf Khan and First and Pen for taking the time to chat and review my book! firstandpen.com/tackling-the...