Marcus Brooks

We're just two short weeks away from our 51st annual conference! 🤩🤩🤩

As a reminder, all presenters (and non-presenting authors) must register for the conference. We offer both member and non-member registration rates.

More info available at our website:
www.midsouthsoc.org/conference/c...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Two big deadlines today for our upcoming conference.

September 15 is the last day to submit papers and also the last day to register at the reduced rate.

The preliminary program is now available on the website.

www.midsouthsoc.org

The preliminary program for our 51st conference is now available!

There's still time to make your last minute submissions - final deadline is September 15.

Register by September 15 and book your hotel by September 24 to get discounted rates.

www.midsouthsoc.org

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Just 10 more days ....

Time is running short to make your submission for our upcoming 51st annual conference, including our 3rd annual Virtual Post Conference.

Submit to one, OR BOTH, at our website. Deadline September 15.

www.midsouthsoc.org

Time is running short to nominate books for the Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award. Deadline is 09/02.

More info available at our website. While you're there go ahead and submit to our upcoming 51st annual conference. Deadline is 09/15.

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There's just two weeks to submit your papers for our upcoming 51st annual conference and/or virtual post-conference.

Deadline: September 1

See our website for group rate hotel booking, travel scholarship, and paper/book awards.

www.midsouthsoc.org

There's just two weeks left to submit your papers for our 51st annual conference.

We're hosting a theory mini conference and a virtual post conference again this year. There's also time to nominate and apply for awards and scholarships.

www.midsouthsoc.org

As we're all prepping for the start of the academic year, don't forget to add submitting to the MSSA conference to your to do list.

Submission deadline: September 1

There's also still time to nominate for book, paper, and mentor awards.

www.midsouthsoc.org

Nominations are open for MSSA's Lyman Book Award, Memorial Scholarship, and Student Paper Awards.

More information available at our website. While you're there go ahead and submit papers and register for our 51st annual conference.

www.midsouthsoc.org

Deadline for submissions to our annual conference is in 30 days.

Join us October 15-18 in North Augusta, SC.

Theme: Disasters: Understanding the Textures of Loss, Love, and Recovery Amidst Forced Social Change

Submit, register, and book your hotel at our website:
www.midsouthsoc.org

Last call to register for our summer professional development webinar, Publishing in "Sociological Spectrum" happening tomorrow Wednesday, July 23, 1:00EST/12:00 CST.

Non-members, especially grad students, are encouraged to join.

Register Here:
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Two days until our summer professional development webinar, Publishing in "Sociological Spectrum" on Wednesday, July 23,t 1:00EST/12:00 CST.

Non-members, especially grad students, are encouraged to join & get 1-on-1 time with journal editors.

Register Here:
sc-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our summer professional development webinar, Publishing in "Sociological Spectrum" is this Wednesday, July 23, at 1:00EST/12:00 CST.

Registration is free and open to non-members at the following link: sc-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hate to see summer wind down, but that means the MSSA annual conference is right around the corner!!! 😃😃😃

Paper submission deadline is September 1.

And yes ... the theory mini-conference and virtual post conference are back again!

www.midsouthsoc.org

Poster describing details of webinar.

Join members of the Sociological Spectrum editorial board for our 2025 MSSA Summer Professional Development Webinar – Publishing in Sociological Spectrum.

Register here:
sc-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Greetings Everyone, I'm working on a PhD at Middle Tennessee State University, and I have been approved by the IRB to share my survey. I'm doing a generational comparative study looking at how the COVID-19 pandemic affected young adults and older adults. Specifically, I’m comparing the experiences of people between 18–34 to adults 60 and older. If you, or someone you know, falls between this age bracket and is willing to participate, please access the survey link below. Your participation is anonymous, voluntary, and greatly appreciated. Your input would help us understand the long-term impacts of COVID across generations.

Sharing a call for participants from a grad student at my alma mater:

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Harmful Attacks on Educational Programs Paused by Court in Case Brought By Educators - Democracy Forward

democracyforward.org/updates/harm...

Call for papers for MSSA annual conference.

www.midsouthsoc.org

Shame on @nytimes.com Michael Barbaro for giving Christopher Rufo 40 min to proselytize the alleged dangers of DEI and higher ed without the scantest evidence based data to support any claims (and bragging about attacking Dr. Gay - despite the utter debunking of his claims of her plagiarism). 🗑️🗑️🗑️

New presentation dropping in the Whitespaces session today at 2:30. #SSS2025

That's amazing! I hope y'all had a great conversation. 😁😁😁

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

Reflecting on this memory from 8 years ago and thinking about how prescient this advice was and how miserably we, as a society, have failed to heed it (Source: Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny").

Jordyn Wald's latest piece explores @thisismarcusb.bsky.social's recent study on “colorblind nationalism” online & its impact on the current culture wars.

Check it out here:
🔗 bit.ly/4bS3m1t 🔗

Thanks for the write up and helping to spread these, I think very important, ideas around. 🙂

DOGE Is the Deep State A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Save the Date, MSSA 51st Annual Conference, October 15-18, 2025, North Augusta South Carolina Conference Theme: Disasters: Understanding the Textures of Loss, Love, and Recovery Amidst Forced Social Change Theme Description: Globally, in a world of interlocking networks, the likelihood that most residents will experience a major disaster in their lifetimes is increasing significantly. Whether caused by natural, technological, synergistic, social, cyber, or new means, disasters are becoming more complex, frequent, stronger, longerlasting, and more devastating in their impacts. As each disaster receives only limited national attention, the extended, slow recovery process forces change and transition at all levels of society, reshaping the pathways forward. Disasters force endings and offer new beginnings. Their destruction spotlights human losses, community ties, deep social change, power dynamics, gender inequalities, wealth and poverty disparities, as well as themes of security, insecurity, and civil rights across varied geographies and cyberspaces. For this conference, we encourage you to submit papers around the theme of disaster with a focus on the humanistic impacts, to understand the texture of loss, the emergence of care and love amidst such devastation, and the process of recovery in a myriad of social and cultural contexts. We are also interested in ways disaster concepts and theorization can apply to new social contexts, expanding our understanding of the theories and

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The ironic adoption of the sieg heil will go down in history as an example of the brainrot that came with online troll culture. We're literally "lolzing" ourselves into Nazism 2.0: Digital Edition.

YouTube video by Sociology@Brown Setting the Record Straight: W.E.B. Du Bois and His Place in World History

I was honored to be part of the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois: Crossing Boundaries for Social Justice Conference as a plenary speaker and I'm so excited and thankful to the planners at Brown University for putting together this important film.

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Message me your email and I can send you the PDF.