Notre Dame Sociology

New book from Rory McVeigh, Bill Carbonaro, Chang Liu, and Kenadi Silcox! See below for a descriptive flyer and a $20 discount coupon.
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Grad student Vahid Jadidi & coauthors' chapter in "Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic" looks at how COVID changed online crime and victimization, demonstrating increases in hacking, fraud, and online harassment, and describing wider social effects of our growing use of digital technology.

Congratulations to @mcoetzee.bsky.social, who was selected as one of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars for 2025! His recent research addresses community responses to state failure and racial violence in post-apartheid South Africa.
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What shapes immigrant youth’s political interest—identity or opportunity? Across Europe, @madem2876.bsky.social's and coauthor Patricia McManus's findings point to the enduring power of resources over ethnicity.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rory McVeigh is the co-editor of a new book on right-wing movements.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

We loved hosting you last week, @pamherd.bsky.social! Thanks for a great talk.

This summer, Full Professor @amische.bsky.social and former graduate student @tomasgold.bsky.social (soon-to-be faculty member at @usc.edu) were honored by 3 ASA sections for their AJS paper short-titled “Channeling Anti-Partisan Contention". Huge congrats to these scholars! Read more below.

You have one month left to apply to this! Applications will be reviewed beginning September 22nd, 2025.

Endowed Chair in Demography at the rank of Full Professor at Notre Dame Population Analytics is now open for applications. I highly encourage established faculty with a strong research program and entrepreneurial spirit to apply! @ndsociology.bsky.social

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Erin McDonnell's (@profmcdonnell.bsky.social) amazing new paper "Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration" is online now at the Annual Review of Sociology. Check it out!!! @ndsociology.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Check out grad student @maurarkraemer.bsky.social's new publication, which uses field theory to explore how high school students’ academic outcomes and educational experiences are related to their engagement in racialized cultural capital-generating activities!

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Congrats to graduate student @maurarkraemer.bsky.social, whose article "Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding How Parental Racial Socialization Operates Within Schools as Racialized Organizations" (SSR 2025) received honorable mention for the ASA Soc of Education Best Grad Student Paper Award!

Sermo Interruptus An academic blog about talk in the news

The incomparable David Gibson has started a blog about "talk in the news." Check it out! david-r-gibson.net

Congrats to our colleague, Molly Copeland, and her coauthor, Christina Kamis, on this new publication!

Proud of the crew of @ndsociology.bsky.social MAs and PhDs we graduated today! Hooded three advisees and celebrated the completion of a MA -- so proud of our next gen of scholars! (with @wcarbona.bsky.social & @amische.bsky.social)

The Department of Sociology Welcomes Dr. Muna Adem as Assistant Professor The Department of Sociology is thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Muna Adem as Assistant Professor. Dr. Adem joins us from the Universit...

The Department of Sociology is thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Muna Adem as Assistant Professor. Welcome to the department, Dr. Adem!
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University of Notre Dame Department of Sociology Announces Two Distinguished Faculty Appointments The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame is proud to announce the appointments of two exceptional scholars—Tim Hallett and Cat...

The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame is proud to announce the appointments of two exceptional scholars—Tim Hallett and Catherine Riegle-Crumb—as Full Professors. Welcome to the department! @timhallett.bsky.social
sociology.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

Also take a look at this coverage in ND Magazine:
magazine.nd.edu/stories/smith/

Opinion | The Share of Religious Americans Will Continue to Decline There has been a plateau of “nones” in the past few years. It won’t last.

There has been plenty of buzz about our colleague Chris Smith's new book, Why Religion Went Obsolete, including in this opinion article from @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...

📣 Hey sociologists! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame!
Deadline is March 31, at 11:59 pm EST. Decision by April 30, 2025.

For details and application link, see:
apply.interfolio.com/164239

More ND postdoc opportunities!
The Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focusing on multiracial democracy. See below for detail and link to apply

apply.interfolio.com/164233

Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships Resources, guides, and key information for Art & Letters faculty and staff

Sociology friends and
@asanews.bsky.social, Notre Dame Sociology @ndsociology.bsky.social) has a late-breaking postdoc opportunity. Share widely and Apply!

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Check out this coverage of our colleague @abiocobock.bsky.social's new book, Marriage Material, on The Society Pages: thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/02/...

It was huge honor - and somewhat surreal - to give a demography seminar in the very room where @agamoran.bsky.social hooded me with my PhD and where I saw Heckman give a talk once in grad school.

Remembering Michael Burawoy | KPFA The prominent sociologist, writer, and U.C. Berkeley professor emeritus Michael Burawoy passed away on February 3. We present excerpts from three interviews with Burawoy, about marketization and commo...

Burawoy on marketization and commodification (from 2016), Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx (2019), and W. E. B. Du Bois’s understanding of the period of Reconstruction (2023). #sociology

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Thanks to @notredame.bsky.social’s "Transformative Open Access Agreement", our colleague @tamkay.bsky.social and coauthors' recent article "Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates: The Case of Abortion Rights in the United States and Latin America" is now free to read.

Love seeing the new leadership at @soceducation.bsky.social Bill Carbonaro, @annarhaskins.bsky.social and colleagues!

The 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings Unveiled (Opinion) The rankings recognize the university-based scholars in the United States whose influence shaped educational practice and policy.

For the third year in a row, NDSoc's Professor Mark Berends has been named one of the top 200 education scholars in the United States, according to the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.

www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Published yesterday: an op-ed from Sharon Yoon, concurrent NDSoc and Korean Studies associate professor, and graduate students Saehwan Lee and Paul Lee. @shlee9494.bsky.social

thehill.com/opinion/5068...

Graduate student Maura Kraemer's recent article uncovers how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations. Until February 15th, you can use this link for free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kL6A,17Ro...