Kelley Fong
@kelleyfong.bsky.social
Assistant professor of sociology at UC Irvine | book INVESTIGATING FAMILIES on Child Protective Services out now: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691235714/investigating-families
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Really happy that my book, Subtle Webs: How Local Orgs Shape US Education, was celebrated with other books by first-time Asian and Asian-Am authors!
It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!
It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!
August 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Really happy that my book, Subtle Webs: How Local Orgs Shape US Education, was celebrated with other books by first-time Asian and Asian-Am authors!
It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!
It's a real honor for it to be alongside other books and authors I admire. And we even had a cake with all our book covers!
Hopping back on bluesky because I had to share my excitement at seeing amazing new @princetonupress.bsky.social books at #ASA2025! From brilliant friends and colleagues @bail3y.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @hopeharvey.bsky.social Irene Vega 🤩📚🎉
August 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Hopping back on bluesky because I had to share my excitement at seeing amazing new @princetonupress.bsky.social books at #ASA2025! From brilliant friends and colleagues @bail3y.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @hopeharvey.bsky.social Irene Vega 🤩📚🎉
Hello social work friends! I will be at #SSWR2025 this week (my first time!) and would love to meet/see you if you'll be there ✨
I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social
I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hello social work friends! I will be at #SSWR2025 this week (my first time!) and would love to meet/see you if you'll be there ✨
I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social
I'll be sharing research on material support provision through CPS in CT and NYC, done in collaboration with Nora McCarthy @familypolicynyc.bsky.social
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If police encounters are a nightmare for unhoused individuals, imagine how much worse they are for families w/ kids.
In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.
In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.
November 29, 2024 at 11:41 PM
If police encounters are a nightmare for unhoused individuals, imagine how much worse they are for families w/ kids.
In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.
In my book, one family is terrified of cops finding them in their car and calling CPS. This fear is justified: "inadequate housing" drives a vast number of child removals in the U.S.
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Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood a book by Kristen Martin
The real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream. The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo...
bookshop.org
November 9, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Hi new pals! I am a cultural critic based in Philadelphia, and my first book, THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW: THE DARK HISTORY OF AMERICAN ORPHANHOOD, comes out the day after the inauguration (gulp). bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (1/2)
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Long lines are a modern poll tax
November 5, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Long lines are a modern poll tax
I am organizing a session on Social Welfare Programs for ASA 2024! If you have new/in-progress research in this area, submit your extended abstract or paper by Mon 2/26 ✨
Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...
Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...
February 22, 2024 at 5:12 PM
I am organizing a session on Social Welfare Programs for ASA 2024! If you have new/in-progress research in this area, submit your extended abstract or paper by Mon 2/26 ✨
Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...
Call for submissions here: www.asanet.org/2024-annual-...
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Free lunch for everybody!
New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
January 9, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Free lunch for everybody!
New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
New work from me, @leahclark.bsky.social, Vitaly Radsky, and Renuka Bhaskar demonstrates that universal free school meals substantially reduce school suspensions, particularly for kids from low-income families. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n
January 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I have not seen posts from Harvard faculty weighing in on Claudine Gay so for what it is worth, here is one faculty opinion. I have been a professor here since 1986. She was, by far, the very best dean of Arts and Sciences we have ever had. She was fair, collaborative and yet decisive. 1/n
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I'm glad to share this Q&A with sociologist Neil Gong about his research & forthcoming book
We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness
www.vox.com/24011278/men...
We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness
www.vox.com/24011278/men...
December 29, 2023 at 4:14 PM
I'm glad to share this Q&A with sociologist Neil Gong about his research & forthcoming book
We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness
www.vox.com/24011278/men...
We talked about homeless tent encampments, psychiatric institutions, Housing First and our country's dramatically bifurcated systems for treating severe mental illness
www.vox.com/24011278/men...
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Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:
December 31, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:
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How it started*/how it's going:
(*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)
(*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)
December 11, 2023 at 7:11 PM
How it started*/how it's going:
(*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)
(*I came very late to this legislative effort and merely bleep bloop blopped some numbers out of my computer to assist advocates who did the real work, but it's an honor to have played a small role)
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Heart wrenching piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social showing how child protective services steals years of children’s lives with their parents w/ a series of pointless and arbitrary burdens https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/us-child-protective-services-family-mother
‘No matter what I do, I’m not in control’: what happens when the state takes your child
After a US mother’s brief spat with a shop clerk, child protective services took her son. Getting him back was harder then she could ever imagined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2023 at 2:29 AM
Heart wrenching piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social showing how child protective services steals years of children’s lives with their parents w/ a series of pointless and arbitrary burdens https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/us-child-protective-services-family-mother
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great to hear @kelleyfong.bsky.social speak on her work tonight! her book focuses on the welfare-criminalization nexus (family policing and poverty governance)
November 16, 2023 at 10:56 PM
great to hear @kelleyfong.bsky.social speak on her work tonight! her book focuses on the welfare-criminalization nexus (family policing and poverty governance)
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Kelly Fong, author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, explains the cascading consequences of a Child Protective Services call in her PUP Ideas essay.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social
October 16, 2023 at 4:37 AM
Kelly Fong, author of Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, explains the cascading consequences of a Child Protective Services call in her PUP Ideas essay.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-ca... @kelleyfong.bsky.social
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great piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social on how awful it can be to be investigated by CPS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
‘No matter what I do, I’m not in control’: what happens when the state takes your child
After a US mother’s brief spat with a shop clerk, child protective services took her son. Getting him back was harder then she could ever imagined
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2023 at 1:57 PM
great piece by @kelleyfong.bsky.social on how awful it can be to be investigated by CPS www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
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🙏It was an incredible night celebrating The Struggle for the People’s King and the visionaries it’s dedicated to. I am so grateful.
October 7, 2023 at 3:20 AM
🙏It was an incredible night celebrating The Struggle for the People’s King and the visionaries it’s dedicated to. I am so grateful.
I did a Q&A on my book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (officially out next week!), with Heather Ashbach, UCI Social Sciences:
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...
October 4, 2023 at 12:59 PM
I did a Q&A on my book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services (officially out next week!), with Heather Ashbach, UCI Social Sciences:
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...
www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...
important new work from Mia Brantley in Social Problems, identifying the intensive motherwork ("laborious and exhaustive strategies to shield their children from racism") taken on by Black mothers: academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood
Abstract. Race and racism play an integral role in shaping mothering practices. Specifically, motherwork examines how Black mothers use strategies and practices
academic.oup.com
September 29, 2023 at 3:25 AM
important new work from Mia Brantley in Social Problems, identifying the intensive motherwork ("laborious and exhaustive strategies to shield their children from racism") taken on by Black mothers: academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Orioles magic number to clinch AL East down to 1!!
Things are v busy this coming month but impending MLB playoffs are occupying a huge share of my attention
I know I have a book coming out but I honestly can't say which I'm more excited about 😂
I mean, I know which I've been waiting for longer...
Things are v busy this coming month but impending MLB playoffs are occupying a huge share of my attention
I know I have a book coming out but I honestly can't say which I'm more excited about 😂
I mean, I know which I've been waiting for longer...
September 28, 2023 at 1:10 AM
Orioles magic number to clinch AL East down to 1!!
Things are v busy this coming month but impending MLB playoffs are occupying a huge share of my attention
I know I have a book coming out but I honestly can't say which I'm more excited about 😂
I mean, I know which I've been waiting for longer...
Things are v busy this coming month but impending MLB playoffs are occupying a huge share of my attention
I know I have a book coming out but I honestly can't say which I'm more excited about 😂
I mean, I know which I've been waiting for longer...
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Hi! I'm Sarah. I'm a postdoc at U. of Pennsylvania. I'm working on 2 projects: my book about immigrant motherhood, schools & gentrification and a co-authored book about place & immigrant young adults. I'm a mom. I live in Somerville. I'm from RI. Coffee, mountains, oceans, & friends make me happy.
September 27, 2023 at 4:03 PM
Hi! I'm Sarah. I'm a postdoc at U. of Pennsylvania. I'm working on 2 projects: my book about immigrant motherhood, schools & gentrification and a co-authored book about place & immigrant young adults. I'm a mom. I live in Somerville. I'm from RI. Coffee, mountains, oceans, & friends make me happy.
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Hey Y’all! Since most of us are new here, it seems like a good time to introduce myself. I’m Daphne—a sociologist and assistant professor embracing my dream of becoming a writer. My research on race, immigration, and stratification in schools is at the center of my writing. 1/
September 24, 2023 at 3:09 AM
Hey Y’all! Since most of us are new here, it seems like a good time to introduce myself. I’m Daphne—a sociologist and assistant professor embracing my dream of becoming a writer. My research on race, immigration, and stratification in schools is at the center of my writing. 1/
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Hi everyone! I'm an ed policy researcher, currently a postdoc at Michigan State (and on the job market, eek!). I focus on how social and economic inequality shapes educational opportunity and the extent to which schools can (and can't) meet students' and families' needs.
Some research I'm proud of:
Some research I'm proud of:
Here is a write-up of my dissertation research!
90% of Detroit students are "economically disadvantaged." But this broad category masks meaningful differences among students.
There are implications for school choice and other policies.
detroit.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/10/23...
90% of Detroit students are "economically disadvantaged." But this broad category masks meaningful differences among students.
There are implications for school choice and other policies.
detroit.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/10/23...
New poverty research could help clarify charter school comparisons
A growing line of research takes a closer look at income data to uncover significant differences among students whose families are considered economically disadvantaged.
detroit.chalkbeat.org
September 21, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Hi everyone! I'm an ed policy researcher, currently a postdoc at Michigan State (and on the job market, eek!). I focus on how social and economic inequality shapes educational opportunity and the extent to which schools can (and can't) meet students' and families' needs.
Some research I'm proud of:
Some research I'm proud of:
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This piece by @rtraister.bsky.social is fabulous and cites scholars who understand how racism, sexism, and capitalism are inextricably linked to marriage and family structure. www.thecut.com/article/why-...
September 23, 2023 at 1:59 PM
This piece by @rtraister.bsky.social is fabulous and cites scholars who understand how racism, sexism, and capitalism are inextricably linked to marriage and family structure. www.thecut.com/article/why-...