Damon Mayrl

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Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall.

I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.

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And then we did it again with another paper 😬

Confidence in elections among U.S. local officials: Effects of social trust, partisanship and political ambition The U.S. public’s confidence in elections is intensively studied in the last decade but little is known about election confidence among locally elected officials, whose roles and community status may ...

One cool trick to increasing trust in elections and government: make everyone a public official.

Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust.

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More skunkworks with @mayrl.bsky.social . Still a couple of small parsing errors ("the participants" and "David"), but clear stratification among thanked entities in Social Science History versus samples of articles from five adjacent disciplines, 1976-2025.

Businesses have long used their bills/receipts to call attention to government policy.

In “Beyond the Hidden American State” @mayrl.bsky.social and I analyzed restaurant bills as sites of political contestation. I'll put the link below.

Looking forward to sharing my book at the Colby College Sociology colloquium on Thursday!

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@mayrl.bsky.social and I have written about what's happening how as a kind of cascade of recognition.

When you call out the role of the government, this can produce spillover effects that highlight additional facets of governance.

I've been thinking about reasons it's hard to convey the importance of the Musk/Treasury thing and maybe one factor is that people don't realize how *much* of the world is government?

RIP

Announcement for a SPECIAL PANEL ON THE TREASURY with pictures of two speakers. About this event: What is at stake with the Treasury's payment systems? Recent events make this question more pertinent than ever before. Cutting across governance, policy, economic regulation, and the bureaucracies that sit at the core of the democratic state, the Treasury's financial pipes and plumbing are critical for the nation's well-being. In this special session, Elizabeth Popp Berman (U Michigan) and Abraham Newman (Georgetown U) will discuss why these systems matter as well as the risks posed by their capture by non-state actors. Please join us on Thursday, February 6 at 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST for what will surely be an excellent conversation. Please register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/uSxuanM2TEWy5Hqn4-7KVg

A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social.

This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!

🚨 Please help us spread the word to Early Career Scholars!

We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.

William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 (Gift Article) His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/b...

In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter? If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?

Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.

IOWA CITY, SEPT. 16 You were driving your Cybertruck south on N Dubuque Street past the 1-80 ramps, and I was driving north. I didn't see your face, and I'm worried you didn't see my middle finger. Just wanted to make sure you got the message

Spotted in the missed connections section of the local Little Village magazine.

An incredibly hot take that I have is that liberal/progressive leaders invoking Christian language because that is what they truly believe is actually a good thing because letting the conservative right have a monopoly on Christianity is catastrophically stupid

Apply to be an editor for Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! ASA’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities is looking for editor applications from individuals and teams. Applications due March 28, 2025. Read the call here: https://bit.ly/4jsHxZN

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Lecturer / Assistant Professor - Computational Social Science, School of Sociology - Dublin, Leinster (IE) job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 386526 We are seeking applications from individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computational Social ...

UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.

– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
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By the way — if you're curious to learn more about the modern Religious Left, boy do I have the book for you: www.amazon.com/American-Pro...

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Job Alert➡️ The Department of Sociology & Anthropology @westvirginiau.bsky.social invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) appointment in #Sociology, open area of specialization. Review of applications begins Jan 24, & will continue until filled. sssreligion.org/announcement...

I went to graduate school to study with a well-known scholar of colorblind racism, and the idea that powerful people couch their hatred in euphemism to avoid social sanction seems increasingly quaint when the world's richest man is doing the Nazi salute at the President's inauguration.

As the new year ramps up, don’t forget about the SSHA conference (our 50th!) in Chicago this November. For more details and to submit a paper see: ssha.org/conference/

Benjamin H. Bradlow, Podcast Episode · New Books in Sociology · 01/13/2025 · 52m

New podcast interview about my book! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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The Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...

Letters reveal a decades-long school voucher expansion strategy by politicians and church officials who all believe that the separation of church and state is illegitimate.

New, @propublica.org

A bipartite citation analysis of people thanked in ASA publications from seven sections, spanning pubs from 1979-the present.

"Canons, Colleges, and Consecrations" with @mayrl.bsky.social is inching along. Behold: automated collection, parsing, and matching of acknowledgments from seven ASA sections, covering award-winning publications (and a few comparators) spanning 1979-present! Fine-tuning still, but looks face-valid!

1. Anyone who follows me knows that I am, shall we say, a big believer in hiring more religion reporters.

But I wanted to take a minute to detail just one of the reasons I say that, like, all the time.

More to the point: let’s pull back the curtain to explain what this kind of work looks like.