🚨🚨The first of three UTM Sociology Speakers @utm-research.bsky.social @uoftsociology.bsky.social @mmaroto.bsky.social Nov 17

Happy to announce the UTM Sociology Speaker Series for 2025-2026 @utm-research.bsky.social @uoftsociology.bsky.social

Still relevant !!! theconversation.com/for-canadian...

One of the privileges of being interim chair is participating in @UTM @UofT orientation representing Sociology! Welcome to all our new students! #sociology #universitylife #firstdayofschool

ONLINE FIRST Analyzing data from France, Célia Bouchet, Michelle Maroto (@mmaroto.bsky.social), and David Pettinicchio (@dnpetti.bsky.social) show that, even among part-time workers, people with disabilities earn less than those without disabilities. Read more at bit.ly/4lHPUAJ

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All three of us together finally !

🚨🚨🚨 New Publication Alert Working Part-Time: Earnings Penalties Among People with Disabilities Across Occupational Groups in France By Célia Bouchet, Michelle Maroto, & David Pettinicchio www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New chapter by CGSP affiliate faculty @docdantzler.bsky.social & @dnpetti.bsky.social, along w/@mmaroto.bsky.social, is accessible overview of inequality in Canada, and how social policy can create winners and losers based on ppl's access to various forms of support cgsp-cpsm.ca/article/soci...

Lessons from the fashion industry: #UTM sociology associate professor David Pettinicchio and Jordan Foster, formerly of #UofT, explore why some DEI efforts fail to resonate with consumers. @us.theconversation.com @dnpetti.bsky.social bit.ly/4d5Ouxk

New chapter ! Social Inequalities @docdantzler.bsky.social @mmaroto.bsky.social academic.oup.com/edited-volum... In The Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada edited by Béland, Mahon, & Smith

May issue (62(2) is now out in Canadian Review of Sociology, flagship journal of the Canadian Sociological Association. It marks the second-to-last issue with this editorial team ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x...

"While there may be folks who continue to be critical of DEI campaigns because they think brands bought into being “woke” (and now are paying a price for it), many more are eager for greater and better representation." CGSP affiliate @dnpetti.bsky.social on DEI in the fashion industry

Read my latest essay with Jordan Foster in @theconversationca.bsky.social based on our ongoing work: Lessons from the fashion industry: Why some DEI efforts fail to resonate with consumers theconversation.com/lessons-from... @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social

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The locomotion #kylieminogue #toronto

New issue ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x...

Only 5 days left to submit !!

Happening Wednesday ! The Outcomes of Episodic Protest Coalitions: Lessons from the Disability Rights Movement

Submit to our session on quasi experimental audit methods !! #methods #napoli #isa #sociology

My paper with Jordan Foster is now out in Critical Studies in Media Communications www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... “This is real beauty”: pushing the boundaries of aesthetic citizenship online

Il 20 Febbraio Università di Bologna

As Disability in Society section chair, I’m pleased to announce our call for awards! Please submit!

Think about submitting to ISA RC33 in Napoli. @mmaroto.bsky.social and I are organizing a session on audit methods.

New specs 👓

Was invited to the Political Science Academic Community Dinner at Trinity College, University of Toronto . Will wear these gifts from Maria Sironi, gifted when I left my @ox.ac.uk Postdoc for U of T.

Great talk by fellow sociologist Jack Veugelers hosted by UofT Italian Studies

Excited to be giving this talk in @unipd.bsky.social !! My project with @mmaroto.bsky.social on correspondence -based audit studies of disability labour market discrimination

Holiday reading complete … I have eclectic tastes

So happy our paper is 6th most read in Contemporary Sociology . What great company to be in too!

At least it’s sunny !

Here we go winter term !! 👨🏻‍🏫

Happy to report that the @asanews.bsky.social Disability in Society Section has a BlueSky account! @asadisability.bsky.social Thanks to @jessical-2022.bsky.social for setting this up!! Follow us!!

RIP President Carter. He presided over an important period in the disability rights struggle and I enjoyed researching his administration for my 2019 book Politics of Empowerment .