More of our recent research, this time featured on The Society Pages!

Sociology quick-take! "Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences" covers new @amjsoc.bsky.social research by @sociologylauren.bsky.social & @evangelinewarren.com on Americans' racism, sexism, & classism evaluation criteria & how they change opinions on redress contexts.org/articles/def...

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303... Tenure Track AP position at UNC's SILS. "We seek a scholar whose research examines the complex interconnections between AI technologies and social, organizational, and/or ethical systems."

Due to the rescission of federal funding, North Carolina Public Radio is facing a major budget shortfall (roughly $800k). @wunc.org is the largest nonprofit newsroom in the state but also home to national programming. If you care about quality journalism, please give what you can www.wunc.org/donate

Nice to see our recent AJS article featured in Contexts! @evangelinewarren.com

GEM 2025 was a huge success! My two faculty colleagues in Engineering and Mathematics and I started a Duke-UNC collaboration seven years ago to promote diversity in STEM. This has been one of my favorite ways of putting my scholarly research into practice for the benefit of the local community.

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 @sociologylauren.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in SRE today! In "Zero-sum or Coalition? A Dyadic Approach for Testing Discrimination’s Impact on Perceptions of Ethnoracial Outgroups" we use perceptions of discrimination to examine racial group relations. Here's a 🧵!

Celebrating my first post-grad day with a paper with collaborator extraordinaire @sociologylauren.bsky.social accepted for publication in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity!

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Excited to share that my new book is now available for pre-order! This book has been a labor of love for the past decade & I am grateful to a whole community of people who supported this project. Get 30% off your purchase using code UCPNEW at UChicago Press! Link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

What a spectacular panel at #SSS2025 🔥🔥🔥 "Perceptions and Experiences of Discrimination and Microaggression" with @malissa-a.bsky.social @amiebostic.bsky.social @jessistreib.bsky.social @tianhao.bsky.social

Along with @mlamont.bsky.social @pjoosse.bsky.social, I am on the Distinguished Career Award committee for the ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section. Please send nominations our way! Due March 5. More information here: www.asanet.org/communities-...

Excited to share my new paper, just out in Sociological Methodology! "What to Do with 'Other, Describe" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My engineering colleague, Sophia Santillan, and I were recently given the opportunity to share our work on causes and interventions addressing the gender gap in STEM to an incredible group of women from around the world who are part of the US State Dept's International Visitor Leadership Program.

If you're in the Chicago area, can you please help spread awareness about my cousin Adam who's missing? Thank you <3

Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194

We've got two jobs! Carolina Sociology is hiring at the Assistant or Associate levels with a focus on gender, sexualities and migration. Some HR hiccups slowed down the job posting but not the deadline, so we start review in ten days. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

Cultural sociology friends: if you were going to put together a cultural sociology graduate course using ONLY stuff published in 2014 and later (no cheating), what would you put on it? Please don't hesitate to recommend your own work!

Duke Sociology is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Area of specialization (actually) open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28065

I made a Sociology themed Connections+ game! 🤓 connectionsplus.io/game/qolksU

I'm giving a talk "Racial Wealth Gaps in the US: Realities, Misperceptions, and Interventions to Increase Public Support for Wealth-Equalizing Policies and Behavior" at the uncpopcenter.bsky.social this Friday, Feb 9 at 12pm. Excited to share this work coauthored w/ Nicole Yadon & Sydney Sauer!

An IRB dilemma: I'm part of a team at another institution that is collecting data on causal attributions for inequality. Along the lines of "evaluate the following potential reasons why people are poor," with Likert scales for items like "they don't work hard enough" and "they face discrimination."

New paper out at Social Problems with @ewarren.bsky.social! New developments in the sociology of racism have theorized the importance of inaction as a form of racism, but do everyday Americans see it that way? Using data from interviews and a survey-experiment, we find that some do!

Computational social scientists and other sociologists who play with or think about data: UNC-CH Sociology is looking for an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science. Application review begins 11/3! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/268...

📢 UNC SOCIOLOGY JOB ALERT! 📢 UNC-Chapel Hill has an Assistant Professor of Sociology job opening this year (open specialization). Please see the link below for details. Review of applications begins October 30th! Come be my colleague! 😁 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/267...

I've been writing letters of recommendation for a few years now. But I still don't know in what cases is it appropriate to refer to the candidate by their first name as opposed to Ms./Dr./etc Lastname ???

How long did your last journal review take? Take the Quick Little Journal Review Time Survey and I'll post a new round of results: umdsurvey.umd.edu/jfe/form/SV_... #academia #sociology

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