Elena Ayala-Hurtado
elenaah.bsky.social
Elena Ayala-Hurtado
@elenaah.bsky.social
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Sociology, PhD from Harvard Sociology. Precarious employment, economic insecurity, higher education. Cultural sociologist. Current research in the US and Spain.
Just a month left until the deadline for the BJS special issue that Lorenza Antonucci and I are co-editing on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity! We've heard about some really interesting papers in progress so far--consider submitting!
The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences
Submission deadline: Tuesday, 2 September 2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A reminder that Lorenza Antonucci and I are co-editing a BJS special issue on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socio-economic insecurity. Submission deadline September 2! Check out the call for papers!
The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences
Submission deadline: Tuesday, 2 September 2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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May 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In Contexts, I summarize my recent Soc of Ed paper examining how young, struggling college graduates in the U.S. and Spain understand their social positions and sense of worth.

Spoiler: they're deeply unhappy that their expectations haven't panned out, but confident in their worth as graduates.
New on the blog! In Princeton sociology post-doc fellow @elenaah.bsky.social's research on "expectational liminality," she finds that many young college graduates around the world simply aren't experiencing the benefits promised by the education gospel. contexts.org/blog/after-c...
April 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
LAST CALL! Join Lorenza Antonucci, David Joseph-Goteiner, Joaquin Prieto, Hequn Wang, and myself at our second mini-conference on socioeconomic insecurity at SASE 2025. Attendance and discussions last year were wonderful! Submissions deadline SOON: 12/16. sase.org/event/2025-m... (MC04) #sociology
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
sase.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Join Lorenza Antonucci, David Joseph-Goteiner, Joaquin Prieto, Hequn Wang, and myself at our second mini-conference on insecurity at SASE 2025. Attendance and discussions last year were wonderful; this year, we hope, even better! Submissions deadline SOON: 12/16. sase.org/event/2025-m... (MC04)
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
sase.org
December 9, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Join Lorenza Antonucci, David Joseph-Goteiner, Joaquin Prieto, Hequn Wang, and myself at our second mini-conference on insecurity at SASE 2025. Attendance and discussions last year were wonderful and this year we hope will be even better! Submissions deadline 12/16. sase.org/event/2025-m... (MC04)
2025 – Montréal - SASE
SASE is delighted to announce that its 37th annual conference will be hosted at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal from 9-12 July 2025.
sase.org
November 20, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I'm thrilled to share that my first paper from my dissertation, "The Expectational Liminality of Insecure College Graduates," has been published in Sociology of Education: doi.org/10.1177/0038...
November 20, 2024 at 5:49 PM