Hannah Waight
@hwaight.bsky.social
Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
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Hannah Waight
@hwaight.bsky.social
· Jun 1
The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
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1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
We recently wrote a follow blog post summarizing this
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article. Please follow this link to read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We recently wrote a follow blog post summarizing this
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article. Please follow this link to read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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article. Please follow this link to read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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Sociology we have to talk about ASA/Footnotes' decision to publish an article about how *checks notes* a sociologist in upper admin *checks notes* used Sociology to *checks notes* cut the Sociology Program at their university. 🙃
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Sociology in the Provost’s Office: Leading through Contraction | American Sociological Association
Across the United States, higher education is contracting. Since 2010, colleges and universities have lost more than two million students. The
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September 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sociology we have to talk about ASA/Footnotes' decision to publish an article about how *checks notes* a sociologist in upper admin *checks notes* used Sociology to *checks notes* cut the Sociology Program at their university. 🙃
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New blog post summarizing my recent paper with Adam Goldstein in the AJS: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Americans’ shifting perceptions of income inequality are a story of class and partisan identity | USAPP
Americans’ shifting perceptions of income inequality are a story of class and partisan identity Income and class inequality have played an increasingly prominent role in American political discourse s...
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August 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New blog post summarizing my recent paper with Adam Goldstein in the AJS: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that
Thank you @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell for all your hard work on this! Really thankful to have been a part of this special issue!
I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
August 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thank you @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell for all your hard work on this! Really thankful to have been a part of this special issue!
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I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:
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✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)!
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June 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)!
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Excited to share “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages” was just published! Amazing work by my wonderful coauthors — read more below!
I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages - Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tuck...
How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups sh...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Excited to share “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages” was just published! Amazing work by my wonderful coauthors — read more below!
I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages - Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tuck...
How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups sh...
journals.sagepub.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Excellent new work by one of our graduate students
David Purucker, (ABD in SOC) wrote "The Sociology of Socialism: A Review and Prospectus" in Critical Sociology. Link: urldefense.com/v3/__http://...
Purucker argues socialism is "a relevant social fact in the US and a superior framework for envisioning alternatives to systems of oppression."
Purucker argues socialism is "a relevant social fact in the US and a superior framework for envisioning alternatives to systems of oppression."
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June 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Excellent new work by one of our graduate students
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Read the first article from the ASA Sex & Sexualities Section's new journal, in which editors Krystale E. Littlejohn @drklittlej.bsky.social, U of Oregon, & Amy L. Stone @amylstone1.bsky.social, Trinity University, consider the importance of nurturing a sociology of sex & sexualities. bit.ly/3EyV56r
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Read the first article from the ASA Sex & Sexualities Section's new journal, in which editors Krystale E. Littlejohn @drklittlej.bsky.social, U of Oregon, & Amy L. Stone @amylstone1.bsky.social, Trinity University, consider the importance of nurturing a sociology of sex & sexualities. bit.ly/3EyV56r
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📣🚨 NEW ARTICLE: Many #immigrants are aging & remain undocumented. What is their experience of illegality as they age–specifically their fear of deportation? New publication @sfjournal.bsky.social! Please read and share widely. 🔗 here: bit.ly/SF25-LCI (summary below) /1
Life course illegality: how the life course and aging shape the experience of illegality
Abstract. Scholars have studied in detail how immigrants experience illegality in the US. Many have focused on immigrants’ fear of deportation as central t
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June 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
📣🚨 NEW ARTICLE: Many #immigrants are aging & remain undocumented. What is their experience of illegality as they age–specifically their fear of deportation? New publication @sfjournal.bsky.social! Please read and share widely. 🔗 here: bit.ly/SF25-LCI (summary below) /1
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Hannah Waight and Adam Goldstein show that inequality perceptions have become increasingly polarized by partisanship.This gap has been driven by Republicans, whose increasing disavowal of growing inequality contributed to an overall decline in Americans’ perceptions in the new gilded age.
The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hannah Waight and Adam Goldstein show that inequality perceptions have become increasingly polarized by partisanship.This gap has been driven by Republicans, whose increasing disavowal of growing inequality contributed to an overall decline in Americans’ perceptions in the new gilded age.
1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
1/ I am excited to share my new article with Adam Goldstein in the American Journal of Sociology. We harmonized a set of historical public opinion data from 1966-2013 to investigate the shifting bases of inequality perceptions in the United States. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Many correspondence audits collect data on multiple characteristics but don't examine all potential forms of discrimination. In our latest paper on @socarxiv.bsky.social, “Missing Results of Discrimination,” we show that scholars may unintentionally miss key findings.
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Missing Results of Discrimination: A Systematically Comparative Meta-Analysis and Re-Examinations of Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Discrimination using Correspondence Audits
Intersectionality theory argues that race and gender cannot be fully understood in isolation or through an additive approach. However, field experiments frequently examine aggregate racial or gender…
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May 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Many correspondence audits collect data on multiple characteristics but don't examine all potential forms of discrimination. In our latest paper on @socarxiv.bsky.social, “Missing Results of Discrimination,” we show that scholars may unintentionally miss key findings.
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JOB! Please RT.
Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.
apply.interfolio.com/165892
Happy to answer questions.
Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.
apply.interfolio.com/165892
Happy to answer questions.
April 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
JOB! Please RT.
Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.
apply.interfolio.com/165892
Happy to answer questions.
Swarthmore is hiring for our Social Science Quantitative Lab Associate to support & do teaching quant methods to undergrads. Especially looking for people familiar with sociology and/or political science, and R. Apply by 4/18.
apply.interfolio.com/165892
Happy to answer questions.
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Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu
April 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu
See this link for a press release on my @pnas.org new paper on propaganda in China with Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, and Brandon Stewart: www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @uoregon.bsky.social
New research shows that propaganda is on the rise in China
Hannah Waight, an assistant professor of sociology at the UO, and her collaborators found that the use of state-planted propaganda is on the rise in China. And it’s not just a tool for spreading...
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April 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
See this link for a press release on my @pnas.org new paper on propaganda in China with Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, and Brandon Stewart: www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @uoregon.bsky.social
Thank you @chinadigitaltimes.net we would not have been able to do this work without you!
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) – The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping
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The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping | PNAS
Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence
the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...
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March 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Thank you @chinadigitaltimes.net we would not have been able to do this work without you!
How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Thread below.
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The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping | PNAS
Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence
the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Thread below.
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The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping | PNAS
Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence
the media. We document a decade-long trend in China towar...
doi.org
March 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
How can researchers identify covert state propaganda campaigns in China? My co-authors Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social and myself are excited to share our new article in PNAS (@PNAS): doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Thread below.
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