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I wanted to bring a post-doc opportunity to people’s attention. Please circulate to anyone you know who might be interested: Please note that all applications received before May 31st will receive full consideration, and applications will be reviewed on a … Continue reading →
My wife and I lived in California during Proposition 8. We got married before the vote, “just in case,” although I swore (clearly ignorantly) that a state wouldn’t vote to take an already extended right away from its people. We … Continue reading →
I recently joined the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Policies (YPP). You can learn more about it at ypp.dmlcentral.net, but in brief, it is an inter-disciplinary group of really interesting scholars and practitioners interested in studying and supporting … Continue reading →
Last week I was talking with Joe Kahne about the presidential debates. I was expressing my deep concern about the willingness of candidates to make inaccurate statements during debates. We were both musing about how debates could be fact checked … Continue reading →
I wanted to let folks know about a set of methods workshops put on by the University of Arizona Sociology Department. The workshops take place between January 3-8, 2013 (which is a lovely time of year to be in Tucson). … Continue reading →
In the realm of technology and repression, last week was filled with both dark and light. On the lighter side, a Chinese dissident imprisoned using information from Yahoo! was finally released after 10 years. Yahoo! took a great deal of … Continue reading →
Most lesbian couples I know grapple with how to label their partner publicly. For instance, even before we were able to legally wed, but after we had a ceremony that looked a whole lot like a wedding, I decided to … Continue reading →
Guy Adams, a reporter, had his Twitter account suspended after he tweeted complaints about a Twitter business partner, NBC. Twitter “proactively” brought the tweet to NBC’s attention and encouraged NBC to file a complaint. When NBC did complain, Twitter kicked … Continue reading →
When scholars think of repression, they often think of the state as the repressor. This misses a tremendous amount of repression undertaken by private actors. Of course, this has always been true—from Pinkertons to the KKK—private actors have been critical … Continue reading →
By Jennifer Earl When I was approached about writing a blog on good summer reading, I knew exactly what book I would write about—Barbara Kingsolver’s first book, which was non-fiction, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike … Continue reading →
