Erin McDonnell

Visiting Fellowship Program | Kellogg Institute For International Studies Since 1983, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies has offered visiting fellowships to promote interdisciplinary international research in a supportive community of scholars.

Do you work on development, democracy, or state institutions? Apply for a Kellogg visiting fellowship and hang out with me for the semester or year! Apply by October 1

kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships

"...Rescuers consider themselves connected to all human beings through bonds of a common humanity...[for rescuers] what it means to be a human being is far more expansive and inclusive." (Monroe 2008)

Boy this hits hard today

In the holocaust why did some people rescue strangers while others were perpetrators or bystanders? "Bystanders see themselves as passive people, lacking in control and low in efficacy. The Nazi self-image is as victims who need to protect themselves and their community."...(cont)

Great to be a guest at @casbsstanford.bsky.social Stimulating conversations w interdisciplinary scholars researching orgs: what org ethnography adds, what defines a strong org, & better understanding well performing public sector orgs in low income countries.

Thanks for the invite and great to catch up w @ezrazuckermansivan.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social

Great time with Medici Institute, at HEC Paris this year. Fun to talk org culture and motivation in public sectors with curious orgs scholars. Convos about what org purpose is, whether it’s just “purpose washing” profit, when it matters to workers, and when/why it helps orgs to embrace a purpose

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

You can act on false conspiracy theories about the government, and violate numerous laws, and that is fine. But if you suggest that government is not dysfunctional, you will get fired from DOGE:

Sociologists: What are your favorite qualitative papers whose contribution is primarily to show HOW something works, to illustrate the mechanism of a social relationship, or illuminate a process?

Congratulations Corey!

Apply now: Summer 2025 interdisciplinary workshop on Public Sector Organizations

Who: Grad students, postdocs, & assistant profs in social sciences
When: 7/21-23
Where: Univ of Notre Dame (USA)
Apps Due: 5/15
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If "patriotism in American history" sounds like a promise to scrub uncomfortable truths from history, gild the lily, and run a propaganda machine through our education system, that's because it probably is.

**JOB ALERT** Notre Dame's new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. $75k/year, $15k research expenses, open area, & up to 2 years. Come work with great Sociology colleagues in a resource rich environment.

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

Thanks. The sheer volume of people telling me I’m a useless piece of shit for streamlining identification of places to sub “democratic erosion” for “the erosion of democracy” is quite something.

Wow, I feel genuinely sorry for you that you have so much hate in your heart.

Target drops DEI initiatives and learns there are harsh consequences The retailer is being sued after removing its diversity programs after President Donald Trump was elected.

Corporations realizing that Black people, and their allies, dont want to shop with spineless corporations removing workplace protections. If you dont stand for something when its hard, you dont stand for it at all.

Costco & Trader Joes can have all my money. finance.yahoo.com/news/target-...

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Public servants are GD super heroes. They get shat on & mocked but when we really need them, they still come through for us.

working thru the weekend to process requests to change gender on birth certificates in Washington, so people's gov ID can = their birth cert, can = their gender identity

Honestly its like a freefall where you think you are nearing rock bottom and then you get to "sacking people who fight white supremacist terrorist groups" and discover a whole near level

This is how kleptocracy works, and why it is such a dangerous, slippery slope to get away from elite government officials (and whatever Musk is) from putting financial interests in a blind trust

Research African governance? We seek contributions to an interdisciplinary edited volume addressing institutional performance and democratic citizenship beyond traditional notions of voting--deliberation, small publics, public sector accountability etc.

Apply 2/15

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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

Rep. Ogles Proposes Amending the 22nd Amendment to Allow Trump to Serve a Third Term WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to allow a President to be elected for up to but no more than three terms. Th...

I have studied African governments for over 20yrs. Abolishing term limits is the slippery slope to personalistic quasi authoritarian rule.

This should be a hard line for all Americans, including conservatives who value the constitution

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