Introduction Abstract. Constitutional arrangements of governmental power can become entrenched to determine who gets fundamental rights. Americans hold as an article of

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As Hungary emerges from 16 years of authoritarian rule, understanding the "Orbán model" is as vital as ever.
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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

New York City Hexmaps The five boroughs of New York City can be informally or formally carved up into many different pieces, depending on what it is that you’re doing. As part of an ongoing project, I recently made an R pa...

New York City Hexmaps. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Jim Crow Sociology
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Apr. 19, 1989 | Five Innocent Teens Arrested and Prosecuted for Rape in New York City Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.

1/Every-time, some bro-tech fascist open their mouths about “culture” and “Western Civilization”, I play Robert Johnson: www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco....

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols."

[Gift article]

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Opinion | Tyranny at Texas Tech

Academic freedom and the First Amendment must protect the right of anyone to disagree with the government. By John K. Wilson: https://bit.ly/4mJGqXW

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shoutout to the question about attacks on trans rights in this S4P town hall. it wasn’t mentioned in the replies but it is abundantly clear that normalization of support for sexual/reproductive violence thru this genocide both in the form of abuse of prisoners and the killing of whole family lines…

The students get it.

Palestine is a Paradigm, from Sherene Seikaly:

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Towers of Ivory and Steel Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, May...

And a couple of reading recommendations from panelists:

Maya Wind's Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom:

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guest post: the sociologist as bystander The following is a guest post by Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author. They called them “aid distribution centers.” Orwell himself would not have thought of a better term. Every day, shortly after …

Powerful response to an opposing petition from Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author:

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What a generative and encouraging call.

Updates in light of today's ballot from S4P here:
www.sociologistsforpalestine.org/asa-boycott#...

guest post: the sociologist as bystander The following is a guest post by Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author. They called them “aid distribution centers.” Orwell himself would not have thought of a better term. Every day, shortly after …

"The petitioners are asking ASA members to gawp at human misery, death, and destruction as dispassionate experts, blink, and proclaim that they shall not speak on the issue, as it is very complex and contested." Roi Livne and an anonymous co-author respond to the recent petition on scatterplot

"Walton focuses on the experiences of mostly well-educated migrants of color moving to the area to take well-paid jobs – in this case in health care, higher education, software development, and engineering."

Homesick | Stanford University Press A racial demographic transition has come to rural northern New England. White population losses sit alongside racial and ethnic minority population gains in nearly all of the small towns of the Upper ...

Don't judge a book by its cover is silly because LOOK at this cover. Side benefit of conducting place-based race research: the cover art potential.

Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England (2025) by Emily Walton

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Noticed that @needhibhalla.bsky.social has her ORCID in her bio and I'm absolutely stealing this idea. It makes sense!

Last line but also for the academic job market.

Screenshot of figure 4 which shows the percentage of all fellows with the top US institutional affiliation. To explore this, we dug deeper on institutional affiliation, finding substantial variation in the percentage of fellows with the top institutional affiliation for each fellowship (Figure 4). Radcliffe has the highest share, with over 20 percent of fellows having a Harvard affiliation at the time of first award. In addition, both RSF and CASBS have at least 10 percent of fellows from a single institution (Columbia and Stanford, respectively). On the opposite end, the Guggenheim and NAEd have the smallest percentage of fellows with the top affiliation at slightly under 5 percent. NAEd top institution is Wisconsin and Guggenheim is Berkeley when considering all years and Columbia when only considering since 2000. NHC comes in the middle with between 5 and 10% of fellows having the top affiliation (Duke for all time and UNC Chapel Hill four fellows since 2000).

Screenshot of figure 5, percentage of all fellows with the top 5 US institutional affiliation. We see the same stark divide in institutional affiliations when we expand to the percentage of fellows with the top five institutional affiliations (Figure 5). For CASBS, RSF, and Radcliffe, about 30 percent of all fellows (whether looking across the lifetime of the fellowship or since 2000) have one of the top five institutional affiliations. For context, these institutions have employed only about 1.5–2 percent of faculty overall in the US in the last few decades. NHC is around 20% and NAEd and Guggenheim are between 15 and 20%.

The concentration within some fellowships is honestly astonishing. We knew it was concentrated but not quite this much.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

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Looks great! By which I mean horrible & depressing but important & useful.

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This looks really interesting:

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I turn to "Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks" when I'm stuck and looking for an easy structure for revisions. And then I'm re-reminded that revisions aren't an easy or linear process.

"Pick and choose what's relevant" is what I should probably write in my copy of the book.

Back at the revisions now that the last batch of student paper feedback is done.

I definitely have to add Belcher's Chapter 3 to the list above, for thinking through your argument.

Read, process, apply to your argument.