Valentina Cantori

🏆 Honored that my latest publication, "Trajectories of Public Islam," has won the 2025 American Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Section Award for Best Student Paper ⭐. If you are interested, here is a link to access the article:

doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Am I the only one that is now terrified of eating U.S. produce and U.S.-made food even more than I was before?

A couple more weeks to apply for this! ✉️ me if interested and want to discuss

Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say Rents will go up as thousands of displaced homeowners and tenants hit an already tight market, analysts and advocates said. Insurance costs, contracting and permitting are among the myriad of stressor...

Why will rents balloon? Who will raise the rents? Who will be profiting off of disaster, experts? Passive voice is doing some serious work here, @latimes.com. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

I heard this one from others before. Still shocking!

😱😱😱😱 Appalling!

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Yeah… Not sure whether to laugh or cry lol 😂

Weirdest things older scholars have told you as a suggestion for the job market?

I’ll go first: Downplay your looks to be taken seriously… 😱🙊

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Excited to dig in!

So honored to have received this award in recognition of my latest publication!

If you are interested in civic life, democracy, the possibilities for inclusion and belonging, racialization, and advocacy, you might find this article relevant.

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The fact that people THINK they have good coverage does not mean anything. Most Americans have NO idea how universal healthcare works, hence they deem their coverage “good” because they cannot even imagine a different system CAN exist.

George Orwell on writing a book. Oh, George, you were a true genius!

#SundayReads #Dissertating

My (paid-for-by-USC) editor just corrected my “danglin’ mod,” and now I cannot call dangling modifiers any other way.

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Yes!!! I am slowly moving from the desk to the bed to indulge in TV and yummy food :)

I have a fever and a sore throat, but I still wrote 973 words today. Please, clap.

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The secret to good writing is a break.

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Yes, that is great piece of advice! I know… we are super heroes for writing so well in a second language 🤩

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

I like the retyping strategy. I have never tried that out!! Thanks 😊

I can totally relate. As an Italian, I tend to pack my sentences with subordinate clauses as we tend to appreciate that more in Romance languages. It always feels extremely dry to cut subordination in English.

And, yes, I will keep that secret for you 😂

I love grammatical tricks! Thanks!

Yes, totally. Ethnographic data are so rich but take up so much space. My heart always hurts when I cut data. I’ll try that out to see which parts are not essential to sustain my claims. Thanks!

Amazing! Thank you for the tips. 2000 words seems such a monumental cutting endeavor 😅

Sunday Funday: I need to cut a book chapter from 9,719 works to around 7,500. Drop all your favorite trimming tricks in the comments!

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HR 9495: Bill Threatening Nonprofits Passes House - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly A bill, HR 9495, which would allow a presidentially appointed treasury secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of its status if deemed a “terrorism-supporting” organization, has passed in the US H...

This is a brazen attack on free voices. This law enables crushing nonprofit organisations including media and civil rights groups by labeling them "terrorism supporters."

This is authoritarianism in plain sight!

When voices are silenced, democracy crumbles.

nonprofitquarterly.org/hr-9495-bill...

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US rejection letters: “We have considered 400 applications. We marveled at all of them. The decision was so tough. We regret to inform you your fascinating work was not shortlisted.”

UK rejection letters: “We regret to inform you did not make it. Deal with it.”

I am British at heart 💛
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How to be an "apocalyptic optimist" Dana R. Fisher calls herself an "apocalyptic optimist" based on her research as a sociologist of large social movements. Her studies suggest that ever-increasing climate disasters will get people out ...

Congrats to @asapolisoc.bsky.social Chair @fisherdanar.bsky.social for delivering a fascinating TED talk! www.ted.com/talks/dana_r...

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