We're reminding President Trump what it means to be born in the U.S.A.

We're honored that the one and only Bruce Springsteen trusted us with use of his iconic anthem ahead of our landmark Supreme Court case, where we’re challenging President Trump’s attempt to overturn birthright citizenship.

Political Sociology Section Open Call Paper Session Session is open with regard to topics, methodologies, and theoretical orientation. We have ten open session slots this year and will strive to create paper panels that reflect existing and emerging debates and areas of inquiry within our sub-field. Session Participants: Session Organizers: Josh Pacewicz, Brown University; Mathieu H. Desan, University of Colorado-Boulder Religion and Populism (Co-sponsored by Sociology of Religion Section) Please note: This is a co-sponsored session. Submissions for this section will be made in the portal under the Sociology of Religion Section. With rising populism around the world, many people are hearkening back to a nostalgic, imagined past. Alongside this has been a resurgence of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and other forms of religious nationalism. In this session, we invite papers that examine the relationships and overlaps between populism and religion and how it affects voting, policy, women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, the administrative state, and other political behavior, as well as imagined national pasts and futures. Session Participants: Session Organizer: Rhys H. Williams, Loyola University-Chicago Political Sociology Section Roundtables Session Participants: Session Organizers: Josh Pacewicz, Brown University; Mathieu H. Desan, University of Colorado-Boulder

Democratic Backsliding and the Erosion of Human Rights (Co-sponsored by Sociology of Human Rights Section) Please note: This is a co-sponsored session. Submissions for this section will be made in the portal under the Sociology of Human Rights Section. This open session co-sponsored by Political Sociology and Section on Human Rights will explore implications of democratic backsliding and rising authoritarianism on the erosion of human rights. Papers drawing from comparative and historical perspectives are encouraged. Session Participants: Session Organizers: Wesley Longhofer, Emory University; Josh Pacewicz, Brown University Democratic Institutions and the Law (Co-sponsored by Sociology of Law Section) Please note: This is a co-sponsored session. Submissions for this section will be made in the portal under the Political Sociology Section. Session Participants: Session Organizers: Josh Pacewicz, Brown University; Sarah Brayne, Stanford University Macro Determinants of Inequality: The Role of Politics, Policies, and Institutions (Co-sponsored by Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section) Please note: This is a co-sponsored session. Submissions for this section will be made in the portal under the Political Sociology Section. Session Organizers: Josh Pacewicz, Brown University; Masoud Movahed, University of California – Santa Barbara Political, Social, and Welfare Consequences of Economic Inequality (Co-sponsored by Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section) Please note: This is a co-sponsored session. Submissions for this section will be made in the portal under the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section. Session Participants: Session Organizer: Manuel Schechtl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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I have been teaching at Brown University for 16 years, and have considered campus and Providence as one of the safest places I've ever lived in the U.S. Still, it's happened here.

My heart goes out to those students and families as they deal with this. We owe them better.

Legacies of U.S. intervention shape post-war immigration politics in concrete and consequential ways.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

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The corporation for public broadcasting shutting down is awful news for people looking to keep public media’s mission alive.

a brief thread on what it means for public radio:

Wow, congratulations!!!

Sociologists/social scientists - any suggestions for interview transcription services that value client privacy and data security/confidentiality? #academicsky

How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress For generations, government jobs helped build the Black middle class. With Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, those days may be over.

Black Americans make up 13% of the population. But as federal government employees, Black employees are:

20% of the Dept. of Health & Human Services
24% of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs
26% of postal workers,
30% of the Dept. of Education

That's the "swamp" Trump is draining.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Making the Case for Afghan Adjustment: The Racial Politics of Post-War Status Adjustment - Neha Lund, 2025 Scholars of race and immigration have previously situated immigration policies as racial projects. Recently, a wave of Afghan immigrants were evacuated to the U...

Excited to share my first published article! In it, I analyze status adjustment advocacy efforts for post-war Afghan immigrants as racial projects of imperial model minority racialization, connecting literatures on racial formation, empire, and refugee migration.
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