Well this is a first. My 2004 ASR article with Nicola Beisel on abortion in the 19th century was cited in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision striking down the state's 1849 abortion ban! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

I am delighted to announce my appointment to an endowed chair as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. The icing on the cake is that I am also a member of the Union of Pitt Faculty (United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1088-04).

Today would have been #MichaelBurawoy's 78th birthday. I know all of us who loved him miss him very, very much. Ana Villarreal took this photo of him, which I love (as do many others). I'm so glad she did and that she shares it with us all.

#MichaelBurawoy, Audrey Singer & I nominated the great photographer Sebastião Salgado (who passed away Friday) for the 2010 @asanews.bsky.social ASA Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award. He won. To celebrate, I wrote this analysis @soc-forum.bsky.social tinyurl.com/43e8vuew ‬

Hmmm, I wonder who is behind the scenes asking the feds and IN to target Notre Dame's DEI policies? Could the call possibly be coming from inside the house? Nah, what group would do that? www.wboi.org/government/2...

Abortion bans kill women. Abortion bans torture women. Abortion bans are about control, power & attempt to thwart the mind blowing success of women (particularly women of color) who excel at everything they do. If you weren’t a threat they’d just ignore you.

If your "Poverty Initiative" pretends some of the key variables linked to poverty in the US and around the world—lack of access to birth control and reproductive health care—don't exist or matter, it isn't really a poverty initiative at all.

So many of us predicted this—abortion bans kill women in every country that have them. Women now also experience DEATH BY MISCARRIAGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Congress could change this and take back tariff authority.

Wow! So many people marching in South Bend. We're not used to this. It's usually 20 people milling around at an anti-abortion rally. www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2...

You have to have a malignant loathing of women to pass an abortion ban. It is torture of women and makes pregnancy less safe for everyone.

@tamkay.bsky.social's (@ndsociology.bsky.social) works on issues of trade, labor, social movements, globalization, culture, organizations, and global health. Her work engages two primary areas: transnational political economy & transnational culture. Connect with Kay: scholars.org/scholar/tama...

My book "Coproducing Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" will drop soon. I was in Amman & Ramallah to interview Mr. Kuttab & Palestinian team, & observe their workshops & meetings w NY-based Sesame Workshop staff. Incredible team.

So why do we have to call it what they want us to call it? Theirs sounds too benign, so I'm calling it DODGY. AI defines it as: "British slang term that means something is suspicious, unreliable, or of low quality." Sounds about right.

A story before I close my laptop for the day: A new poll shows that none of the 16 states with first trimester restrictions or near-total bans had majority support, with the lowest support coming from Idaho and Kentucky. Nearly 1/3 who live in states with bans said they strongly disagree with it.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Open access for our new article "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" buff.ly/4gvJgLo

📢New #PAG20 Notes from the Field 📝 @acalasanti.bsky.social, Cora Fernández Anderson & @tamkay.bsky.social outline how field research on abortion rights movements has changed in and outside of the U.S. post-Dobbs in "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates" https://buff.ly/4gvJgLo

Eren took this beautiful photo of Michael Burawoy with his great friend Erik Olin Wright in 2002. Every Thursday night after our weekly TA meeting, Michael treated the seven of us to a REALLY nice dinner (wine always included). Erik joined one night @ Yoshi's for dinner and music.

It's too upsetting to repost the article. So I'll focus on the things that those of us who loved Michael Burawoy loved so much about him, including that he was SO much fun and SO hysterically funny. A thread....

Is there a starter pack for our AMAZING reproductive rights reporters? If not, there needs to be asap. @jessicavalenti.bsky.social @kelciemmorris.bsky.social @sofiaresnick.bsky.social @reprosfightback.bsky.social @andreagonram.bsky.social @susanrinkunas.com

Abortion bans make pregnancy less safe for everyone. I already know faculty at Notre Dame @notredame.bsky.social who are giving birth @ University of Chicago (which our insurance covers) because they are afraid that if something goes wrong, they will DIE in Indiana. www.reuters.com/legal/indian...

Abortion bans make pregnancy less safe for everyone. I already know faculty at @notredame.bsky.social who are giving birth at the University of Chicago (which our insurance covers) because they are afraid that if something goes wrong, they will DIE in Indiana.

Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat’s “Sugarcane” joins podcasts by @duncanmccue.bsky.social (“Kuper Island”) and @conniewalker.bsky.social (“Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”) in showing who and what Indian residential / boarding schools failed to obliterate, and the unfathomable damage they did.

“Denial of a wanted abortion…increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months…Tracking outcomes up to 15 years later… women denied an abortion experience more health issues, lower educational attainment, reduced labor-force participation, and higher rates of poverty.”

Thanks to @notredame.bsky.social "Transformative Open Access Agreement" our article "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" is available to everyone, so please share: tinyurl.com/26t6dzxp

New open access chapter Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda? Roland Erne @profmicheleford.bsky.social Tamara Kay @bigmacca.bsky.social @madelinemoontarp.bsky.social Christoph Scherrer @marcelvanderlinden.bsky.social doi.org/10.4337/9781...

So grateful 4 labor mvmt colleagues, especially @rolanderne.bsky.social who's supported me thru 2 years of harassment at Notre Dame, & always includes me on his team. We need more allies like him. Thank you, Roland. Check out our new pub w/ great labor scholars: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...

Because of how Indiana law defines "abortion inducing drugs," this bill would ban not just mifepristone but also misoprostol—a drug used to prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage. # of co-sponsors unclear. Guy who filed it resigned from the Republican caucus because it wasn't conservative *enough*

I guess Meta figured that if the government is going to deny women's rights, the least they can do to help is let their users get away with dehumanizing women online.

Scenes from a pro-life country

Trump’s return to the White House, accompanied by allies deeply hostile to anything related to reproductive and sexual health and rights, has sparked panic. newrepublic.com/article/1895...

Book #4, about Project ECHO (@projectechohq.bsky.social) written with @jasonspicer.bsky.social is officially under contract with Stanford University Press, for their Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) book series in their Stanford Business Books imprint. Coming in 2026.

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

Here's a brief history of trade liberalization, tariffs (including the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930), and how the President ended up with so much power over them—from our book "Trade Battles"

Here’s what I wrote in 2016 about Trump and NAFTA then. I wasn’t entirely right, but also not too wrong, I’d say. policytrajectories.asa-comparative-historical.org/2016/12/what...

As one of only a handful of sociologists who've studied free trade agreements & negotiations & didn't have to google Smoot-Hawley, who thought it would be one of the most relevant topics now? @wendyyli.bsky.social @mfair.bsky.social, RL Evans, Michael Dreiling, Francesco Duina, Nitsan Chorev

Have you wanted to thank a reviewer for fantastic and insightful feedback? Well, thank you to the anonymous reviewer of my 3rd book "Coproducing Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships" I'm very grateful! It's going into production soon!

Labor unions organizing is where it's at: www.laborpolitics.com/p/labors-res...

Check out our special issue on global health, "Politics, Power, and Inequality in Global Health" Many thanks to our fantastic guest editors Joseph Harris and @dadakim.bsky.social It's a must read! link.springer.com/journal/1211...

Special issue "Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America,” edited by @maiahjaskoski and Moisés Arce, is now available open access until December 1st at: link.springer.com/journal/1211...

The @SCID journal team—@tamkay.bsky.social and Anna Calasanti — on "Why We Need to Expand and Elevate the Field of Reproductive Health" in SpringerNature : springernature.com/gp/researche...

We're adding Studies in Comparative International Development to Bluesky at: @scidjournal.bsky.social

In my "Visualizing Global Change" course, students create their own documentary film or photography projects. Yesterday a student whose grandfather survived an Indian residential school in the US previewed her film which included her grandfather speaking about his life.

@ericblanc.bsky.social piece in Jacobin is the real deal, and everyone should read it: jacobin.com/2024/11/trum...

And from the preface of "Trade Battles":

The impact of free trade agreements on workers and the consequences politically and electorally—from our 2018 book “Trade Battles: Activism and the Politicization of International Trade Policy”