Pamela Metz
@pamelametz.bsky.social
Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021). Director of Chapter Development @scholars.org (2022-2025).
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Pamela Metz
@pamelametz.bsky.social
· Aug 8
SSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!
Hello Sociology friends! Excited to be in Chicago for #ASA2025 with @scholars.org. Point me to your sessions!
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Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/
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As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.
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If you are a young student in the US and you are worried that you, a classmate, or a loved one could be deported by ICE agents, as you have seen on social media, TV, or in your neighborhood, this short text is for you.
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/understanding-deportation-for-children
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/understanding-deportation-for-children
December 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you are a young student in the US and you are worried that you, a classmate, or a loved one could be deported by ICE agents, as you have seen on social media, TV, or in your neighborhood, this short text is for you.
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/understanding-deportation-for-children
https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/understanding-deportation-for-children
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A short text explaining what is going on with ICE as a resource for kids (like … teens?) to read or for parents to read and had to talk to kids.
Hi Doug, Thanks for the feedback. Here a revised version:
theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/under...
theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/under...
Understanding Deportation for Children
By Ernesto Castañeda, PhD
theimmigrationlab.org
December 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A short text explaining what is going on with ICE as a resource for kids (like … teens?) to read or for parents to read and had to talk to kids.
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#1: The most read piece of last year asked a hard question — can we consider America to be a functioning democracy — and offers a hard answer: no. Trump has moved through the authoritarian checklist with remarkable speed, but has least control over elections.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#1: The most read piece of last year asked a hard question — can we consider America to be a functioning democracy — and offers a hard answer: no. Trump has moved through the authoritarian checklist with remarkable speed, but has least control over elections.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
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As a grim year comes to an end, sharing the best of Can We Still Govern? These are the five nost read stories from the last year, ungated. Take a gander and read one! 🧵https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/best-of-can-we-still-govern-2025?r=slfke&utm_medium=ios
Best of Can We Still Govern 2025: Readers Picks
The most-read stories of the year
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As a grim year comes to an end, sharing the best of Can We Still Govern? These are the five nost read stories from the last year, ungated. Take a gander and read one! 🧵https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/best-of-can-we-still-govern-2025?r=slfke&utm_medium=ios
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If you are a Barnes & Noble Premium or Rewards member, you can pre-order my forthcoming book (or any other book) b/t now and Thursday and receive 25% off, with the code "PREORDER25". #BNPreorder
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owning-the...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owning-the...
Owning the Green Grid: The Political Economy of Renewable Energy Policy Design|Paperback
How corporate ownership of the electricity grid matters to state-level renewable energy policymaking.Historically (and for the foreseeable future), most public policy action in the United States to co...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you are a Barnes & Noble Premium or Rewards member, you can pre-order my forthcoming book (or any other book) b/t now and Thursday and receive 25% off, with the code "PREORDER25". #BNPreorder
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owning-the...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/owning-the...
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New piece on how veterans can find themselves in debt to the VA, including the involvement of predatory third parties. Something I wrote about in my essay for the South Atlantic Quarterly a few months ago. www.military.com/feature/2025...
December 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New piece on how veterans can find themselves in debt to the VA, including the involvement of predatory third parties. Something I wrote about in my essay for the South Atlantic Quarterly a few months ago. www.military.com/feature/2025...
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We're thrilled to highlight Scholar Affiliate Dr. Ernesto Castañeda in the latest entry of our interview series: "¡Hablemos! With Dr. Ernesto Castañeda."
Learn more in the full interview here:
iwbcollab.org/hablemos-wit...
Learn more in the full interview here:
iwbcollab.org/hablemos-wit...
¡Hablemos! With Dr. Ernesto Castañeda - Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative
By Rick Tzompa Chimal Dr. Ernesto Castañeda is Professor of Sociology and Director of both the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the Immigration Lab at American University, where he inv...
iwbcollab.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We're thrilled to highlight Scholar Affiliate Dr. Ernesto Castañeda in the latest entry of our interview series: "¡Hablemos! With Dr. Ernesto Castañeda."
Learn more in the full interview here:
iwbcollab.org/hablemos-wit...
Learn more in the full interview here:
iwbcollab.org/hablemos-wit...
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As 2025 comes to a close, we want to say a big thank you to all of our scholar affiliates, community partners, and readers for continuing to produce, share, and translate important empirical research on im/migrant well-being!
theiwbcollaborative.substack.com/p/the-immigr...
theiwbcollaborative.substack.com/p/the-immigr...
The Im/migrant Well-Being Newsletter, Volume 2, Fall 2025
The latest on im/migrant well-being
theiwbcollaborative.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As 2025 comes to a close, we want to say a big thank you to all of our scholar affiliates, community partners, and readers for continuing to produce, share, and translate important empirical research on im/migrant well-being!
theiwbcollaborative.substack.com/p/the-immigr...
theiwbcollaborative.substack.com/p/the-immigr...
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In 2019 the National Academies laid out a roadmap for cutting child poverty in half relying on CTC expansions. Those ideas became part of the pandemic response. And it worked!
So I asked members of the 2025 committee, some of the best poverty researchers in the US, to explain what we learned.
So I asked members of the 2025 committee, some of the best poverty researchers in the US, to explain what we learned.
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In 2019 the National Academies laid out a roadmap for cutting child poverty in half relying on CTC expansions. Those ideas became part of the pandemic response. And it worked!
So I asked members of the 2025 committee, some of the best poverty researchers in the US, to explain what we learned.
So I asked members of the 2025 committee, some of the best poverty researchers in the US, to explain what we learned.
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New, at Can We Still Govern?
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
What have we learned about child poverty in America?
Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New, at Can We Still Govern?
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
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Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
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Last week, I had the privilege to provide some thoughts about economic workfoce development issues and Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s incoming administration on Errol Louis’ Inside City Hall show on NY1 ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Transition member talks Mamdani's affordability plan
There are two weeks left until Inauguration Day.
ny1.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Last week, I had the privilege to provide some thoughts about economic workfoce development issues and Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s incoming administration on Errol Louis’ Inside City Hall show on NY1 ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
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Latest book organization just dropped. 👇
I plan to send it for review next summer. 🤞 Advance contract is w/ UChicago Press.
I plan to send it for review next summer. 🤞 Advance contract is w/ UChicago Press.
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Latest book organization just dropped. 👇
I plan to send it for review next summer. 🤞 Advance contract is w/ UChicago Press.
I plan to send it for review next summer. 🤞 Advance contract is w/ UChicago Press.
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Update! My book, Holding onto Home: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary, was approved (with no further revisions, hallelujah!) by @ucpress.bsky.social. It'll be out in late 2026.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who got me to this moment.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who got me to this moment.
My kids made me a binder and a new cover for my final edits.
Keeps the content nice and mysterious...
Keeps the content nice and mysterious...
December 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Update! My book, Holding onto Home: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary, was approved (with no further revisions, hallelujah!) by @ucpress.bsky.social. It'll be out in late 2026.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who got me to this moment.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who got me to this moment.
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Integrated is long listed with some great books for the 2026 Pen Galbraith Award!
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Integrated is long listed with some great books for the 2026 Pen Galbraith Award!
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Sharing this great post @3streamsblog.bsky.social from @kevintmorris.bsky.social and Miller from their new @thejop.bsky.social article medium.com/3streams/how...
How the Supreme Court Exploded the Racial Turnout Gap
Evidence shows hundreds of thousands of ballots nationwide were never cast due to new policies and practices
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sharing this great post @3streamsblog.bsky.social from @kevintmorris.bsky.social and Miller from their new @thejop.bsky.social article medium.com/3streams/how...
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This morning at @thejop.bsky.social blog, Mike and I discuss our new paper on the effects of getting the Voting Rights Act on the turnout gap — and what it might mean for the case before the Court right now.
A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall!
ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...
A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall!
ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...
How the Supreme Court Exploded the Racial Turnout Gap – The Journal of Politics Blog
ubwp.buffalo.edu
December 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This morning at @thejop.bsky.social blog, Mike and I discuss our new paper on the effects of getting the Voting Rights Act on the turnout gap — and what it might mean for the case before the Court right now.
A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall!
ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...
A preview in some ways of our book, out next fall!
ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/2025...
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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I really enjoyed this lively conversation with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social yesterday about our new @rooseveltinstitute.org report. We covered the major media crises facing our democracy and even touched on some possible solutions. Here's a link to the full transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2044...
"People say, 'Well, if the market's no longer doing this, why don't we rely on nonprofits, who rely on rich benefactors, philanthropists, foundations? But disproportionately, those resources go to the metropolitan areas. It's not going to work in most other places," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I really enjoyed this lively conversation with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social yesterday about our new @rooseveltinstitute.org report. We covered the major media crises facing our democracy and even touched on some possible solutions. Here's a link to the full transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2044...
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I spent two summers here doing research on inequalities in government responses to disasters, focused on what had taken place in Puerto Rico following hurricane Maria. NCAR has led on so many scientific advances. This admin’s harm to the scientific workforce in the US is beyond measure.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I spent two summers here doing research on inequalities in government responses to disasters, focused on what had taken place in Puerto Rico following hurricane Maria. NCAR has led on so many scientific advances. This admin’s harm to the scientific workforce in the US is beyond measure.
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After tragedies like those this weekend, particularly when the horror of gun violence hits so close to home:
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
First We Grieve
Then we must act.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After tragedies like those this weekend, particularly when the horror of gun violence hits so close to home:
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
First, we grieve. Then, turn to facts. Then, with understanding rather than anger or fear, we must act - with community and heart at the center. 💜
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Our latest data release! 📊 National Equity Atlas' #environmentaljustice indicators reveal where #climate risks are highest
View local data, context, key trends, & strategies forward re: Lead Exposure, Toxic Flood Risk, Urban Tree Canopy, & Urban Heating
www.nationalequityatlas.org/introducing-...
View local data, context, key trends, & strategies forward re: Lead Exposure, Toxic Flood Risk, Urban Tree Canopy, & Urban Heating
www.nationalequityatlas.org/introducing-...
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Our latest data release! 📊 National Equity Atlas' #environmentaljustice indicators reveal where #climate risks are highest
View local data, context, key trends, & strategies forward re: Lead Exposure, Toxic Flood Risk, Urban Tree Canopy, & Urban Heating
www.nationalequityatlas.org/introducing-...
View local data, context, key trends, & strategies forward re: Lead Exposure, Toxic Flood Risk, Urban Tree Canopy, & Urban Heating
www.nationalequityatlas.org/introducing-...
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Have you seen the cool dataviz tool that goes with it? www.taxbasefragmentation.net
Tax Base Fragmentation | Discover Fiscal Insights — Explore Now
Explore data on tax base fragmentation and fiscal capacity across municipalities with interactive maps and analysis tools.
www.taxbasefragmentation.net
December 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Have you seen the cool dataviz tool that goes with it? www.taxbasefragmentation.net