🚨New sociology! In "How the Rich Turn Sludge into Money," @shdoron1.bsky.social (@ipratnu.bsky.social) keys in on the bureaucratic practices wealthy families use to fend off threats to resources and intergenerational wealth transfers--and how these tactics change families contexts.org/blog/sludge/

OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE ARCHIVES explores the emotional and embodied experience of #LGBTQ+ archival work—where power, identity, and desire shape research itself. #ASA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/342hnyt5 #QueerStudies #Sociology #LGBTQArchives #LGBTQResearch

I am sharing a fundraiser for the Asylum Support Clinic where a dear friend volunteers. The recent federal funding bill imposes, for the first time, fees on individuals applying for asylum. Details below, but please share with others or donate as you are able! www.gofundme.com/f/help-asylu...

Who said economic sociology can't be illuminating AND fun to read? You can have your cake and eat it too with Shays' new work on inheritance disputes and relational mismatches.

#MorningReads Econ sociologists have examined how morality shapes markets, but often treat class and organizations separately. Ethnography of 3 U.S. fertility clinics shows how their intersection shapes how providers talk about money to manage trust & authority. Via @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social

In @asanews.bsky.social ASR, @larivera.bsky.social and @estelabdiaz.bsky.social use qualitative data from elite independent pre K-12 schools to find that admissions processes are structured to exclude applicants at risk of disabilities. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Do you know about my book drive in support of Bluestockings Bookstore?

Here's the application link! You've got one week left to apply. www.justeducationpolicy.org/apply

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)! apply.interfolio.com/169206

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out. Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sharing a thought provoking piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social about Ohio's anti-DEI. Reminds me of the problems I escaped from in Florida! www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Our piece is out now in ASR! See Lauren's fantastic thread below for the highlights. We believe scholars who study elites, culture, and education will all have something to take away from this work. Let us know what you think. (1/2)

How do the most elite US private schools, which serve as Ivy League feeders, select their youngest members? In a new ASR article w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social, we show that schools explicitly design their early childhood admissions practices to identify—and exclude—disabled or neurodivergent children🧵

Fantastic piece this morning by @charlieeaton.bsky.social on the imperative wealthy universities have to fight the cuts to research funding: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

“The widespread adoption of vouchers, Cowen explains, was a policy coup staged by billionaires who were libertarians or religious zealots or both.” Yet vouchers don’t work. So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Keep imagining better worlds.

Most elite families did not maintain their position in the top 1 percent between 1850 and 1940, from Priti Kalsi and Zachary Ward https://www.nber.org/papers/w33355

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

More important work from ProPublica on private schools, and a great resource for teaching.

North Carolina's Segregation Academies are benefiting from rapidly expanding and controversial voucher-style programs. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social & @mrsimon22.bsky.social report, with photography by @gregkahn.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/segr...

Currently writing a chapter about whiteness and what I call the ‘long shadow’ of Jim Crow. We have a lot of interviews with White folks from the Delta who attended, and/or send their children to these segregation academies. All of them did their schooling post-1969 Alexander v. Holmes

My parents don't quite understand what I do as a postdoc, but they love beautiful and old things so I get to tune into campus with a different lens. This week's pick:

How do we reconcile our ever-growing love of NYT puzzles with our ever-growing fury at their news and opinion pages

I wrote a book review of Michèle Lamont's latest, "Seeing Others" for the latest ASA Culture Newsletter. In the review, I also discuss the limits of a politics of recognition and consider whether new narratives for stigmatized pops are emancipatory. asaculturesection.org/2024/02/01/b....

I guess there's no better time to make the switch to Bluesky official. If you care to follow me, I'll be boosting the work of others and sharing musings re: my ongoing work on early childhood elite admissions, educational markets, meritocracy, etc. plus occasional photos of my pup, Joaquin!

My research on tech lobbying is cited today in a New York Times Opinion piece. Glad that my work is helping make sense of this pivotal moment in global tech regulation. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/o...

I'm new to Bluesky (thanks @wendyyli.bsky.social !) and just getting the lay of the land. Looking forward to fewer bots and more resource-sharing!