Joel Mittleman

Thank you!!!!

Do you have a good paper you’d recommend? Specifically on the admissions benefit to being a man, all else equal.

I’ve been very curious about this: what data have you seen?

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Sociologists & Demographers:

My program is considering changing how we approach qualifying exams in the age of ChatGPT.

How have your departments adjusted to this new world? Have you made changes? What’s your approach?

We are so lost.

I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]

Super stoked about this: Schilt, Kristen, D’Lane R. Compton, and Khoa Phan. Forthcoming. “Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the 21st Century.” American Review of Sociology. #bucketlisting

Wow, when is that coming out?

Faculty misconduct changes what students study and whether they finish. Universities say they want stronger pipelines into male-dominated fields, but historically have papered over and tolerated behavior that punctures them.

Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...

The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo

🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨

Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz

academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

It just keeps getting sent from different addresses. My first time receiving it was from a GSE address but I’ve subsequently gotten it from all different official university accounts. It seems like anyone with a current or alumni Penn email address just keeps getting it. It’s awful.

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Are you working in #LGBTQ related research topics?! Come visit us in Melbourne next year!!

While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;)

Also there are a handful of scholarships available!
@jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social

Extending the Bridge: Racialized Organizations, Inhabited Institutionalism, and Racialization - Jelani Ince, Callie Cleckner, Tim Hallett, 2025 This article extends the nascent bridge between the sociology of race and ethnicity and organizational sociology by fostering a dialogue between the theory of r...

I read a draft of this from @profince.bsky.social a while back, but it's changed for the better in revisions. This is a really useful engagement, critique, and extension of my theory that I'm going to have to cite a bunch. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - 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...

WE'RE HIRING!

The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING

I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions

Please share widely!

White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice Organizing White People for Racial Justice

Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org

Wow, thrilled to see this. That’s my old friend Erin Heaney’s organization!

Tressie, for the uninitiated sociologist of gender, is there any good article or book on gamergate you’d recommend reading?

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!

Thanks so much for sharing. I'm grateful for the reassurance that these long "Awaiting Decision" periods are not unusual and don't necessarily signify anything about the end result. Congrats on the R&R!

Have you had any update? I've been "awaiting decision" for three weeks now: such an anxious place to get stuck in the process.

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here:

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ... TikTok video by Harvard University Press

I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.

Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/

Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles

🚨 New paper 🚨

In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.

In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.

track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents - Greer Mellon, 2025 In recent decades, affective polarization and partisan animosity have risen sharply in the United States. To what extent have these trends affected hiring decis...

Great to see @greermellon.bsky.social with the lead article in the latest ASR. And there’s good news: even in polarized times, school boards are selecting superintendents based on perceived competence and interpersonal skills, not party affiliation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...