Davon Norris

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:

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Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology

Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt

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easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

Mary Shi @umich.edu receives the 2025 Dissertation Award for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” (completed at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) during the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting. 

#ASA #sociology #ASA2025

Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality Abstract. After rising for almost two centuries, global income inequality declined substantially after 2000. While past scholarship on global inequality ha

Roshan Pandian's new article in Social Forces: how much of recent global inequality decline is due to autocracies fudging their GDP numbers?

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I saw him give a talk on this paper. It is so. cool.

Had a blast talking about my work with folks at Berkeley!

Publication day is finally here 🎊 Many thanks to my team for helping bring INHERITED INEQUALITY to life & many thanks to you all for making it #1! Please be sure to leave a review—it REALLY makes a difference.

Unionized careers boost up wealth. Very interesting article by Purdue's Alec Rhodes:

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Somebody asked me what the best thing I have read recently, and nothing immediately came to mind. That just changed. Everyone please check out this piece by @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Really wonderful.

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Get to know our faculty associate & @umpsid.bsky.social Asst. Dir. Noura Insolera @ninsolera.bsky.social‬ whose #research explores how income #inequality affects health & educational outcomes over the life course & across generations. #econsky #academicsky

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A growing challenge for households and cities across the country

I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around

“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

A profile of @danielagabor.bsky.social, including her time at the Institute for Advanced Study, captures a defining insight about our time: markets aren't free or deregulated, but shaped by the entangled power of private capital and state planning + intervention. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

I know we're all distracted by AI and tariffs, but Trump is also a private equity presidency.

Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019 Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl

📣 Hot off the press 📣
We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.

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Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
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🎉 Happy to announce the 2nd Yale Municipal Research Conference!

📅 November 1, 2025

📝 Submission deadline: September 12, 2025

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Seeking research on:

· Municipal reporting & debt
· Tax policy

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Please share widely! 🔄

Image of the south concourse of Michigan central station in Detroit, MI

Let the energy of this building power me to submitting this paper today

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Yeah it is that & how that process is tied to a lenders ability to sell a foreclosed property. But I imagine some of these effects will be somewhat delayed by the securitization chain. I would suspect lenders underwriting in climate risky areas likely have an incentive to sell loans to GSEs

With FEMA withdrawing, states will have to fill in the gaps, but how? State bond banks could be part of the answer

As FEMA prepares to withdraw, states will have to fully fund climate adaptation. Can state bond banks step up? Today's piece looks at barriers and opportunities, focusing on VT. It won't be easy. susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/with-fema-...

I have seen a lot of discussion on the increasing cost of home insurance and insurance companies pulling out of states. I have seen relatively less discussion on banks not writing mortgages in these areas.

That is the correct instinct

Me! I’ll bring the carrot cake!

Apply now to join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

Calling all Stata aficionados! Join our team as a postdoc starting ✨this fall✨. Apply by June 29!

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