EB Campbell
@ebcampbell.bsky.social
Sociologist writing on grief, drugs, and democracy.
Assistant Professor of Sociology Rhode Island College | Faculty Fellow Yale Center for Cultural Sociology | Incoming Art Director Contexts | Sociology PhD CUNY | Postdoc SNF Agora Johns Hopkins |
Assistant Professor of Sociology Rhode Island College | Faculty Fellow Yale Center for Cultural Sociology | Incoming Art Director Contexts | Sociology PhD CUNY | Postdoc SNF Agora Johns Hopkins |
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EB Campbell
@ebcampbell.bsky.social
· Aug 20
New pub on #Alaska and rank choice voting where I examine the reforms impacts on political culture. I theorize the vital center as a source of social solidarity— advancing discussions in civil sphere theory. Out now in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology! Full text: rdcu.be/ezXN2 #rcv
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One month to submit in response to our Call for Papers! Please circulate this broadly within your circles as we see study the global impact, contradictions, and unfinished promises of the Declaration of Independence. #polisky #democracy #declarationofindependence #academisky
2026 marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence - an occasion to reflect on its global impact, contradictions, and the unfinished promises of liberty, equality, democracy, and empire across time. Submissions due February 15, 2026! #polisky #academisky
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January 13, 2026 at 3:41 PM
One month to submit in response to our Call for Papers! Please circulate this broadly within your circles as we see study the global impact, contradictions, and unfinished promises of the Declaration of Independence. #polisky #democracy #declarationofindependence #academisky
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FUNDING ALERT - the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging invites proposals for pilot research on the drivers of rural health & aging trends and disparities. Proposals are due by Friday, April 10. The RFP can be accessed at drive.google.com/file/d/1YESp...
INRPHA RFP_Year 3 Pilots_Final.pdf
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January 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
FUNDING ALERT - the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging invites proposals for pilot research on the drivers of rural health & aging trends and disparities. Proposals are due by Friday, April 10. The RFP can be accessed at drive.google.com/file/d/1YESp...
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📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...
Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...
Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377)
The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...
Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...
Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Excited to see this out in the world!
🔔 Recently out: "Emotions in Meaning-Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis" by Dmitry Kurakin
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
The role of emotion in meaning-making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning-making and proposes cathexis—the attachment o...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Excited to see this out in the world!
This was a fascinating read. I especially love the concept “crisis egalitarianism” which was so ubiquitous in the early days of COVID. So helpful to identify the leading narratives in times of disruption and reflect on how they shape our collective sense of possibility.
👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy:
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December 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This was a fascinating read. I especially love the concept “crisis egalitarianism” which was so ubiquitous in the early days of COVID. So helpful to identify the leading narratives in times of disruption and reflect on how they shape our collective sense of possibility.
A lovely way to start break- learning I secured funding to bring my students to Walden Pond next semester.
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
A lovely way to start break- learning I secured funding to bring my students to Walden Pond next semester.
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What is conventional wisdom getting wrong about rural America? ASA member Shannon M. Monnat @smonnat.bsky.social @syracuseu.bsky.social, w/ Tim Slack (LSU), highlights some common misconceptions and why correcting them matters. @us.theconversation.com
6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong
Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What is conventional wisdom getting wrong about rural America? ASA member Shannon M. Monnat @smonnat.bsky.social @syracuseu.bsky.social, w/ Tim Slack (LSU), highlights some common misconceptions and why correcting them matters. @us.theconversation.com
As #rankchoicevoting is top of mind today I’m resharing my recent deep dive on the form & it’s impacts on political culture in #Alaska #rcv #ajcs
New pub on #Alaska and rank choice voting where I examine the reforms impacts on political culture. I theorize the vital center as a source of social solidarity— advancing discussions in civil sphere theory. Out now in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology! Full text: rdcu.be/ezXN2 #rcv
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
As #rankchoicevoting is top of mind today I’m resharing my recent deep dive on the form & it’s impacts on political culture in #Alaska #rcv #ajcs
Cuts to academic programs are not directly tied to what is happening with IDS, but rather signal a rapid degradation of educative offerings and quieting of free inquiry. On the cuts: www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Cuts to academic programs are not directly tied to what is happening with IDS, but rather signal a rapid degradation of educative offerings and quieting of free inquiry. On the cuts: www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
As a former student journalist for the IDS, this is disheartening to say the least. IU made massive cuts over the summer to a host of invaluable programs including African American and African Diaspora Studies as well.
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
As a former student journalist for the IDS, this is disheartening to say the least. IU made massive cuts over the summer to a host of invaluable programs including African American and African Diaspora Studies as well.
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Job alert ➡️ Assistant Professor of Religion,Medicine, & Healing @utoronto.ca (tenure stream).Research/teaching of religion, medicine, & healing in cultural/political contexts using historical, ethnographic, and/or textual/media studies methods, Apply by Nov 6, 2025. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Job alert ➡️ Assistant Professor of Religion,Medicine, & Healing @utoronto.ca (tenure stream).Research/teaching of religion, medicine, & healing in cultural/political contexts using historical, ethnographic, and/or textual/media studies methods, Apply by Nov 6, 2025. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
A joyful day handing out free Narcan for Overdose Awareness #ioad #endoverdose
September 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A joyful day handing out free Narcan for Overdose Awareness #ioad #endoverdose
Sharing one more piece during Overdose Awareness Week "Contesting Deaths' Despair: Local Public Religion, Radical Welcome and Community Health in the Overdose Crisis, Massachusetts, USA" #ioad #savealife #IOAD2025 #OverdoseAware #EndOverdose
Full text: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Full text: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Contesting Deaths’ Despair: Local Public Religion, Radical Welcome and Community Health in the Overdose Crisis, Massachusetts, USA
In the United States, the first decades of the twenty-first century have been marked by a worsening fatal drug overdose epidemic leading life expectancy to decline for the first time in a century. Oft...
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August 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sharing one more piece during Overdose Awareness Week "Contesting Deaths' Despair: Local Public Religion, Radical Welcome and Community Health in the Overdose Crisis, Massachusetts, USA" #ioad #savealife #IOAD2025 #OverdoseAware #EndOverdose
Full text: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Full text: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Readings for #OverdoseAwarenessWeek? Contexts has you covered! A thread of accessible, affecting sociology:
↪️ The War on Drugs Turns 50, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
↪️ Grieving Overdose, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
↪️ The War on Drugs Turns 50, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
↪️ Grieving Overdose, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
August 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Readings for #OverdoseAwarenessWeek? Contexts has you covered! A thread of accessible, affecting sociology:
↪️ The War on Drugs Turns 50, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
↪️ Grieving Overdose, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
↪️ The War on Drugs Turns 50, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
↪️ Grieving Overdose, by @ebcampbell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Emily, and thank you for your work on the subject! Readers, another excellent, open-access piece from EB Campbell is "The War on Drugs Turns 50": journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Emily, and thank you for your work on the subject! Readers, another excellent, open-access piece from EB Campbell is "The War on Drugs Turns 50": journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
This week is Overdose Awareness Week. Today I'm re-sharing my work on the significance of grief in the overdose crisis—"a devastatingly ubiquitous feature of American life."
Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @contexts.org #IOAD2025 #EndOverdose #SaveALife
Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @contexts.org #IOAD2025 #EndOverdose #SaveALife
August 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This week is Overdose Awareness Week. Today I'm re-sharing my work on the significance of grief in the overdose crisis—"a devastatingly ubiquitous feature of American life."
Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @contexts.org #IOAD2025 #EndOverdose #SaveALife
Full text here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @contexts.org #IOAD2025 #EndOverdose #SaveALife
New pub on #Alaska and rank choice voting where I examine the reforms impacts on political culture. I theorize the vital center as a source of social solidarity— advancing discussions in civil sphere theory. Out now in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology! Full text: rdcu.be/ezXN2 #rcv
August 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New pub on #Alaska and rank choice voting where I examine the reforms impacts on political culture. I theorize the vital center as a source of social solidarity— advancing discussions in civil sphere theory. Out now in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology! Full text: rdcu.be/ezXN2 #rcv
Grateful to present my research on #civility & #bridgebuilding this morning at the Political Engagement paper session of @asapolisoc.bsky.social #asa2025
The paper is out now with Philosophy and Society available in full here: doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353...
The paper is out now with Philosophy and Society available in full here: doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353...
August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Grateful to present my research on #civility & #bridgebuilding this morning at the Political Engagement paper session of @asapolisoc.bsky.social #asa2025
The paper is out now with Philosophy and Society available in full here: doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353...
The paper is out now with Philosophy and Society available in full here: doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353...
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Terrific @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Political Engagement at #asa2025 this am. Overall takeaway, conventional understandings of engagement are far too restricted to voting. E.g. Case's research says egalitarian and redistributive ballot initiatives are hugely popular, esp. in red states.
August 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Terrific @asapolisoc.bsky.social panel on Political Engagement at #asa2025 this am. Overall takeaway, conventional understandings of engagement are far too restricted to voting. E.g. Case's research says egalitarian and redistributive ballot initiatives are hugely popular, esp. in red states.
Thrilled to be among excellent company in the latest issue of Philosophy and Society!
A new issue of Philosophy and Society (36/1) is out!
Theme: "Resilience and/or Vulnerability of the Civil Sphere" + papers on Hegel, art, postmodernism, and more.
Read online: journal.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/fid/issue/vi...
#AcademicSky #SEEBluesky
Theme: "Resilience and/or Vulnerability of the Civil Sphere" + papers on Hegel, art, postmodernism, and more.
Read online: journal.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/fid/issue/vi...
#AcademicSky #SEEBluesky
April 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thrilled to be among excellent company in the latest issue of Philosophy and Society!
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Check out this recent op-ed from ASA member Grace Kao, Yale University.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1042...
www.koreaherald.com/article/1042...
[Grace Kao] US blocks words, targets sociology, society
Politically. Historical. Gender. Female. Women. Race and Ethnicity. Barriers. Cultural Differences. Equality. Inequality. Socio-Economic Status. LGBT. These are words that appear regularly in sociolog...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Check out this recent op-ed from ASA member Grace Kao, Yale University.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1042...
www.koreaherald.com/article/1042...
I have a new article out on the role of science in mediating political conflict! The research is based on an in-depth case study of a forest collaborative in eastern Oregon.
February 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I have a new article out on the role of science in mediating political conflict! The research is based on an in-depth case study of a forest collaborative in eastern Oregon.
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📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!
February 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!