Anne Taylor, PhD
@annetaylor.bsky.social
Sociologist. Professor @MtHolyoke. she/her.
Theory, culture, religion, media, performance, sport.
Recent pub: “A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe” https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2024.236507
Theory, culture, religion, media, performance, sport.
Recent pub: “A Cosmopolitan Revelation: Travel as a Religious Act with Rick Steves’ Europe” https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2024.236507
On yesterday's workshop call with @kellyclancy.bsky.social, I committed to morning pages - specifically for my book project - all through the month of September. I guess that means today's Day 1! Let's gooo
August 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
On yesterday's workshop call with @kellyclancy.bsky.social, I committed to morning pages - specifically for my book project - all through the month of September. I guess that means today's Day 1! Let's gooo
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Feeling inspired to get back on here after a really really fun #ASA2025 so making my obligatory “I am on the job market” post! I study the power politics of bodies, borders and babies w/ a current focus on trans reproduction. Read more at Carlosariego.com
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August 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Feeling inspired to get back on here after a really really fun #ASA2025 so making my obligatory “I am on the job market” post! I study the power politics of bodies, borders and babies w/ a current focus on trans reproduction. Read more at Carlosariego.com
Very happy to be back in New England so I can pop down to @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social for lunch with friends and mentors! Oh and Noah Kahan/Boston I love u 4ever
May 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Very happy to be back in New England so I can pop down to @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social for lunch with friends and mentors! Oh and Noah Kahan/Boston I love u 4ever
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I was thrilled to talk to @bradleyonishi.bsky.social (who knows a thing or two about podcasts, evangelicals, and extremism) about my new documentary podcast, *When the Wolves Came: Evangelicals Against Extremism*. Listen here: www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/min...
Mini-Interview: Dr. Ruth Braunstein on Resisting Evangelical Extremism – Straight White American Jesus
www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I was thrilled to talk to @bradleyonishi.bsky.social (who knows a thing or two about podcasts, evangelicals, and extremism) about my new documentary podcast, *When the Wolves Came: Evangelicals Against Extremism*. Listen here: www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/min...
Just realized it's the first year since '22 that I won't be setting off in April for field work in Europe. Feeling so so grateful that Yale and the Macmillan Center sponsored my research. Studying the ways people imagine nationalism, citizenry, and religion thru tourism is more important than ever!
March 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just realized it's the first year since '22 that I won't be setting off in April for field work in Europe. Feeling so so grateful that Yale and the Macmillan Center sponsored my research. Studying the ways people imagine nationalism, citizenry, and religion thru tourism is more important than ever!
Interesting story on Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. His political performances capture the sacrality of both left and right audiences (e.g. gets AOC's praise, stands up to Biden, and is a former soldier with a Bronze Star).
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Opinion | The Democratic Party’s New Recruiter Has a Theory
The Democrats’ best chance to constrain President Trump is retaking control of the House in 2026. Here’s how they might do it.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Interesting story on Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. His political performances capture the sacrality of both left and right audiences (e.g. gets AOC's praise, stands up to Biden, and is a former soldier with a Bronze Star).
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
I'm being reminded today that friendship is such a tonic amidst all the chaos. One friend wrote me to ask if I'd read their book draft. Another wrote me asking if they could read my thesis. In a world where everything that is meaningful can be discredited as cringey, embrace 👏 your 👏 friends.
February 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm being reminded today that friendship is such a tonic amidst all the chaos. One friend wrote me to ask if I'd read their book draft. Another wrote me asking if they could read my thesis. In a world where everything that is meaningful can be discredited as cringey, embrace 👏 your 👏 friends.
New article from Yağmur Karakaya on how the AKP uses the Hagia Sofia in its populist strategy and "leverages the monument's history to create a sense of yearning among the Turkish people while positioning itself as the sole entity able to fulfill this yearning." Check it out! doi.org/10.1057/s412...
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization - American Journal of Cultural Sociology
This paper examines the sacralization of politics in authoritarian populisms through a case study of the conversion of Hagia Sophia, a fifteen-century-old monument from the Byzantine era into a mosque...
doi.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
New article from Yağmur Karakaya on how the AKP uses the Hagia Sofia in its populist strategy and "leverages the monument's history to create a sense of yearning among the Turkish people while positioning itself as the sole entity able to fulfill this yearning." Check it out! doi.org/10.1057/s412...
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Some BIG news: the trailer for my new doc podcast is out today! WHEN THE WOLVES CAME is about how Christian nationalism has divided white evangelical churches, and how one Phoenix pastor & some unlikely allies are at the forefront of a growing resistance. More at open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...
February 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Some BIG news: the trailer for my new doc podcast is out today! WHEN THE WOLVES CAME is about how Christian nationalism has divided white evangelical churches, and how one Phoenix pastor & some unlikely allies are at the forefront of a growing resistance. More at open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...
Considering the current chaos, it's worth reflecting on one of the most sacred ideals of a democratic society - truth-telling - and how we relate to it. Check out this great article from @jgotzsche.bsky.social in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social on the topic
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February 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Considering the current chaos, it's worth reflecting on one of the most sacred ideals of a democratic society - truth-telling - and how we relate to it. Check out this great article from @jgotzsche.bsky.social in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social on the topic
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Rethinking JOY, in the latest #UncommonSense we look at joy and protest with Akwiugo Emejulu – Is joy a palliative for the world’s troubles or is it something more fleeting? buff.ly/4jkrhdl
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Rethinking JOY, in the latest #UncommonSense we look at joy and protest with Akwiugo Emejulu – Is joy a palliative for the world’s troubles or is it something more fleeting? buff.ly/4jkrhdl
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Who gets to claim #MLK? @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social's research reveals how different groups have strategically interpreted Dr. King's words to advance their own causes—often in ways that directly conflict.
Find our 2024 conversation on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/mlk-mem...
Find our 2024 conversation on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/mlk-mem...
January 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Who gets to claim #MLK? @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social's research reveals how different groups have strategically interpreted Dr. King's words to advance their own causes—often in ways that directly conflict.
Find our 2024 conversation on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/mlk-mem...
Find our 2024 conversation on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/mlk-mem...
Looking for the light today ✨
January 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Looking for the light today ✨
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Read this new article by Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup and Kaspar Villadsen entitled "The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis".
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a4DJtw
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a4DJtw
January 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Read this new article by Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup and Kaspar Villadsen entitled "The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis".
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a4DJtw
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a4DJtw
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Rep Landsman: "You're just picking on children. Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive. Your government has become incredibly intrusive. You're in our doctors offices banning treatments. You're in our classroom banning books. Now you're in my daughter's locker room"
January 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Rep Landsman: "You're just picking on children. Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive. Your government has become incredibly intrusive. You're in our doctors offices banning treatments. You're in our classroom banning books. Now you're in my daughter's locker room"
Republicans: we want government out of our lives! Don’t control us! Wahh!
Also Republicans: except when we want to control women’s bodies and tell them they cannot play sports! Then more government!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
Also Republicans: except when we want to control women’s bodies and tell them they cannot play sports! Then more government!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
House Passes Bill to Bar Trans Athletes From Female School Sports Teams
Republicans’ decision to push through the measure early in the new Congress indicated their belief that the issue is politically potent for them. Its future in the Senate is uncertain.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Republicans: we want government out of our lives! Don’t control us! Wahh!
Also Republicans: except when we want to control women’s bodies and tell them they cannot play sports! Then more government!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
Also Republicans: except when we want to control women’s bodies and tell them they cannot play sports! Then more government!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...
Writing and listening to Max Richter - truly the best combo on this chilly morning in Colorado: youtu.be/oNLDJp83YAQ?...
Max Richter: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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January 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Writing and listening to Max Richter - truly the best combo on this chilly morning in Colorado: youtu.be/oNLDJp83YAQ?...
Bluesky (and Twitter before it) felt so unusable the more people I followed, so I actually made use of the List function. It's a game changer!
January 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Bluesky (and Twitter before it) felt so unusable the more people I followed, so I actually made use of the List function. It's a game changer!
Everything feels really horrible right now, so I'm just gonna post this recipe for "cure me chicken soup" that I have been making nonstop for a few months. www.handmethefork.com/recipes/cure...
cure me chicken soup — Handmethefork
all i’m saying is it worked for me
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January 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Everything feels really horrible right now, so I'm just gonna post this recipe for "cure me chicken soup" that I have been making nonstop for a few months. www.handmethefork.com/recipes/cure...
Also, I've been a huge fan of Jason Segel since Freaks and Geeks days. Shrinking feels very true to what I've always admired about him - a vulnerability, an earnestness, a desire to know more, a wacky hilarity (I mean, Dracula musical...come on, love).
Absolutely obsessed with Shrinking on AppleTV. Obsessed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHf...
Shrinking — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Also, I've been a huge fan of Jason Segel since Freaks and Geeks days. Shrinking feels very true to what I've always admired about him - a vulnerability, an earnestness, a desire to know more, a wacky hilarity (I mean, Dracula musical...come on, love).
Absolutely obsessed with Shrinking on AppleTV. Obsessed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHf...
Shrinking — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Absolutely obsessed with Shrinking on AppleTV. Obsessed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHf...
Really enjoyed reading Celso Villegas' review of Alexanders' new book 'Civil Repair' on the Thesis Eleven blog -- especially Villegas' discussion critique and idealism. So important for these strange days we are living in: thesiseleven.com/2024/12/18/b...
Book Review: Civil Repair
Jeffrey Alexander, Civil Repair (Wiley, 2024) Reviewed by Celso M. Villegas
thesiseleven.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Really enjoyed reading Celso Villegas' review of Alexanders' new book 'Civil Repair' on the Thesis Eleven blog -- especially Villegas' discussion critique and idealism. So important for these strange days we are living in: thesiseleven.com/2024/12/18/b...
First day back at work after the holidays, and struggling to get my brain back online. Reading this great new article from Gordon Brett on improv theater and audience agency really got me back in the groove. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Social skills and audience agency in improvised social performance - American Journal of Cultural Sociology
Performance theories treat social action as relatively improvisational, but how such spontaneous and unscripted actions manage to succeed with audiences is undertheorized. Cultural pragmatics is excep...
link.springer.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
First day back at work after the holidays, and struggling to get my brain back online. Reading this great new article from Gordon Brett on improv theater and audience agency really got me back in the groove. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The curious transformation of “Critical Race Theory” to “CRT”: The role of election campaigns in American culture wars
February 2025
Volume 108
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Read here.
February 2025
Volume 108
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Read here.
December 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The curious transformation of “Critical Race Theory” to “CRT”: The role of election campaigns in American culture wars
February 2025
Volume 108
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Read here.
February 2025
Volume 108
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Read here.
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New research with Yagmur Karakaya (Yale Center for Cultural Sociology), out now at @poeticsjournal.bsky.social. Here's a link to read for free! www-sciencedirect-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/science/arti...
The curious transformation of “Critical Race Theory” to “CRT”: The role of election campaigns in American culture wars
February 2025
Volume 108
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Read here.
February 2025
Volume 108
Yagmur Karakaya, Penny Edgell
Read here.
January 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New research with Yagmur Karakaya (Yale Center for Cultural Sociology), out now at @poeticsjournal.bsky.social. Here's a link to read for free! www-sciencedirect-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/science/arti...