Sharon Quinsaat
@sharonquinsaat.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College | Author of "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create A Filipino Diaspora (The University of Chicago Press, Spring 2024) | sharonquinsaat.com
Please join us in this timely discussion! Register at bit.ly/3K1ZUIi. This virtual panel, sponsored by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social, brings together leading scholars whose work examines youth mobilization across diverse political contexts—including Indonesia, Morocco, and the United States.
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Please join us in this timely discussion! Register at bit.ly/3K1ZUIi. This virtual panel, sponsored by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social, brings together leading scholars whose work examines youth mobilization across diverse political contexts—including Indonesia, Morocco, and the United States.
I am so happy to share the good news that my book won the following awards at the American Sociological Association (ASA) and Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), whose annual meetings are taking place next week in Chicago:
August 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I am so happy to share the good news that my book won the following awards at the American Sociological Association (ASA) and Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), whose annual meetings are taking place next week in Chicago:
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Please join us for the following @asamigration.bsky.social events at #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social :
Sat, August 9th
1. Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism (co-sponsored w @asapolisoc.bsky.social ) 8:00 am to 9:30 am @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social & @thejesseyeh.bsky.social
Sat, August 9th
1. Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism (co-sponsored w @asapolisoc.bsky.social ) 8:00 am to 9:30 am @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social & @thejesseyeh.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please join us for the following @asamigration.bsky.social events at #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social :
Sat, August 9th
1. Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism (co-sponsored w @asapolisoc.bsky.social ) 8:00 am to 9:30 am @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social & @thejesseyeh.bsky.social
Sat, August 9th
1. Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism (co-sponsored w @asapolisoc.bsky.social ) 8:00 am to 9:30 am @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social & @thejesseyeh.bsky.social
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Congrats to our newly elected section leaders! @drlizaaranda.bsky.social as chair-elect; @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social as secretary-treasurer; Deisy Del Real and @blancaarramirez.bsky.social as council members; and @melihurtado.bsky.social as student representative!!
July 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congrats to our newly elected section leaders! @drlizaaranda.bsky.social as chair-elect; @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social as secretary-treasurer; Deisy Del Real and @blancaarramirez.bsky.social as council members; and @melihurtado.bsky.social as student representative!!
My book is a co-winner of the International Sociological Association RC31 Sociology of Migration Best Book Award. Thank you to the committee for this honor.
#RC31_Award #best_book in #migration studies
Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, provides a sweeping history of #Filipino transnational social #activism in the #Netherlands and US from 1970s to the present day.
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Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, provides a sweeping history of #Filipino transnational social #activism in the #Netherlands and US from 1970s to the present day.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Insurgent Communities
Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form ...
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July 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My book is a co-winner of the International Sociological Association RC31 Sociology of Migration Best Book Award. Thank you to the committee for this honor.
American Sociological Association colleagues, I am running for the following positions: Asia/Asian America Council Member; Peace, War, and Social Conflict Council Member; and International Migration Secretary/Treasurer. If you are a member of these sections, I hope you consider voting for me.
June 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
American Sociological Association colleagues, I am running for the following positions: Asia/Asian America Council Member; Peace, War, and Social Conflict Council Member; and International Migration Secretary/Treasurer. If you are a member of these sections, I hope you consider voting for me.
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Congratulations to the CBSM Charles Tilly Book Awardees🎉: Sharon M. Quinsaat @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social for Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social for Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg
June 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Congratulations to the CBSM Charles Tilly Book Awardees🎉: Sharon M. Quinsaat @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social for Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora, Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social for Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg
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Have you registered to this event yet by the @asa-cbsm.bsky.social? If not, you should do so (bit.ly/CBSMevent). Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now!
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Have you registered to this event yet by the @asa-cbsm.bsky.social? If not, you should do so (bit.ly/CBSMevent). Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now!
Have you registered to this event yet by the @asa-cbsm.bsky.social? If not, you should do so (bit.ly/CBSMevent). Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now!
May 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Have you registered to this event yet by the @asa-cbsm.bsky.social? If not, you should do so (bit.ly/CBSMevent). Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now!
Join us in a Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding” on May 13, 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00-1:30 Central Time organized by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent. Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now! @asanews.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Join us in a Virtual Conversation on “Global Resistance to Democratic Backsliding” on May 13, 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00-1:30 Central Time organized by @asa-cbsm.bsky.social. Please register at bit.ly/CBSMevent. Let's have a conversation about the world we live in right now! @asanews.bsky.social
I'm giving a book talk next week at my alma mater, University of Pittsburgh. It's been 10 years since my last visit, and I'm very excited. I hope you can attend. #InsurgentCommunities
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April 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'm giving a book talk next week at my alma mater, University of Pittsburgh. It's been 10 years since my last visit, and I'm very excited. I hope you can attend. #InsurgentCommunities
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
So happy to have been awarded an honorable mention alongside @chiaragalli.bsky.social, winner of the 2025
@midwestsoc.bsky.social Distinguished Book Award. The committee praised my book #InsurgentCommunities for being “theoretical robust” and “a solid sociological investigation.” My heart is full.
@midwestsoc.bsky.social Distinguished Book Award. The committee praised my book #InsurgentCommunities for being “theoretical robust” and “a solid sociological investigation.” My heart is full.
March 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
So happy to have been awarded an honorable mention alongside @chiaragalli.bsky.social, winner of the 2025
@midwestsoc.bsky.social Distinguished Book Award. The committee praised my book #InsurgentCommunities for being “theoretical robust” and “a solid sociological investigation.” My heart is full.
@midwestsoc.bsky.social Distinguished Book Award. The committee praised my book #InsurgentCommunities for being “theoretical robust” and “a solid sociological investigation.” My heart is full.
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Late breaking Annex episode! @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social spoke with @danielrmorrison.bsky.social about her book Insurgent Communities. Quinsaat takes an in depth look at the formation of a transnational diaspora. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/shar...
Sharon Quinsaat on Insurgent Communities
Today, Dan Morrison (@danielrmorrison.bsky.social) hosts a conversation with Dr. Sharon Quinsaat (@sharonquinsaat.bsky.social), associate professor of sociology
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March 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Late breaking Annex episode! @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social spoke with @danielrmorrison.bsky.social about her book Insurgent Communities. Quinsaat takes an in depth look at the formation of a transnational diaspora. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/shar...
I learned so much from @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social's book! For the Philippines, sending citizens abroad is a nation building project.
Listen here, or on Spotify and more! #sociology #academicsky
Listen here, or on Spotify and more! #sociology #academicsky
Late breaking Annex episode! @sharonquinsaat.bsky.social spoke with @danielrmorrison.bsky.social about her book Insurgent Communities. Quinsaat takes an in depth look at the formation of a transnational diaspora. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/shar...
March 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I am excited for this virtual book launch at York University. Thank you to amazing peers in migration studies, Ethel Tungohan and Yvonne Su, for inviting me and organizing the talk and to Center for Refugee Studies and York Centre for Asian Research for sponsoring. I hope you can attend.
February 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I am excited for this virtual book launch at York University. Thank you to amazing peers in migration studies, Ethel Tungohan and Yvonne Su, for inviting me and organizing the talk and to Center for Refugee Studies and York Centre for Asian Research for sponsoring. I hope you can attend.
The Philippine edition of my book published by
Ateneo de Manila University Press is out! It means so much to me that my book will be hopefully widely read in the Philippines, my forever home, and in other parts of Southeast Asia. I will be in Manila in June for the book launch.
Ateneo de Manila University Press is out! It means so much to me that my book will be hopefully widely read in the Philippines, my forever home, and in other parts of Southeast Asia. I will be in Manila in June for the book launch.
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Philippine edition of my book published by
Ateneo de Manila University Press is out! It means so much to me that my book will be hopefully widely read in the Philippines, my forever home, and in other parts of Southeast Asia. I will be in Manila in June for the book launch.
Ateneo de Manila University Press is out! It means so much to me that my book will be hopefully widely read in the Philippines, my forever home, and in other parts of Southeast Asia. I will be in Manila in June for the book launch.
I'm so happy and proud to share that my book received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Distinguished Book Award competition of the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS). Thank you to the award committee and to all those who have supported me!
February 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I'm so happy and proud to share that my book received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Distinguished Book Award competition of the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS). Thank you to the award committee and to all those who have supported me!
If you are studying immigrant conservatism and planning to attend the 2025 American Sociological Association conference in Chicago in August, please consider submitting a paper/extended abstract to our session. Please email me if you have any questions.
January 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If you are studying immigrant conservatism and planning to attend the 2025 American Sociological Association conference in Chicago in August, please consider submitting a paper/extended abstract to our session. Please email me if you have any questions.
Colleagues and friends, please check out my essay in Jacobin based on our research on Filipino immigrant conservatives in Hawaii.
Understanding the Immigrant Swing Toward Trump
Liberal pundits have puzzled over increasing support for Trump by immigrants and people of color. To understand the trend, we should look to economic issues and the way institutions like unions and ch...
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November 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Colleagues and friends, please check out my essay in Jacobin based on our research on Filipino immigrant conservatives in Hawaii.
Colleagues and friends, I'm doing book talks in Europe. If you're in any of these places, I hope you can come. #InsurgentCommunities
November 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Colleagues and friends, I'm doing book talks in Europe. If you're in any of these places, I hope you can come. #InsurgentCommunities
I haven't posted here in a while, but I see my post on X/Twitter on the election was shared here. I'm writing an op-ed which expands the post. I'll be sure to be more active in this platform from now on. Thanks for following.
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November 11, 2024 at 8:01 PM
I haven't posted here in a while, but I see my post on X/Twitter on the election was shared here. I'm writing an op-ed which expands the post. I'll be sure to be more active in this platform from now on. Thanks for following.
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Excited to share the findings of my research in three countries (Philippines, US, and Netherlands) on three social movements (antidictatorship, migrants' rights, and collective memory) for 10 years at my institution.
I am available to give talks by Zoom or in person. DM me.
I am available to give talks by Zoom or in person. DM me.
April 11, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Excited to share the findings of my research in three countries (Philippines, US, and Netherlands) on three social movements (antidictatorship, migrants' rights, and collective memory) for 10 years at my institution.
I am available to give talks by Zoom or in person. DM me.
I am available to give talks by Zoom or in person. DM me.
Today, I am excited to announce the official release of "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" from the University of Chicago Press!
You can order the book at a 30% discount through press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and enter code UCPNEW at checkout.
You can order the book at a 30% discount through press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and enter code UCPNEW at checkout.
March 9, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Today, I am excited to announce the official release of "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" from the University of Chicago Press!
You can order the book at a 30% discount through press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and enter code UCPNEW at checkout.
You can order the book at a 30% discount through press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... and enter code UCPNEW at checkout.
My book published by @UChicagoPress is AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER in Amazon!
#SocAF #AcademicTwitter #SocTwitter #AcademicChatter #Diaspora #SocialMovements #FilipinoScholar
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#SocAF #AcademicTwitter #SocTwitter #AcademicChatter #Diaspora #SocialMovements #FilipinoScholar
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January 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
My book published by @UChicagoPress is AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER in Amazon!
#SocAF #AcademicTwitter #SocTwitter #AcademicChatter #Diaspora #SocialMovements #FilipinoScholar
www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Co...
#SocAF #AcademicTwitter #SocTwitter #AcademicChatter #Diaspora #SocialMovements #FilipinoScholar
www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Co...
Deeply honored and humbled to have blurbs for my first book from these scholars. Details of my book is available on The University of Chicago Press website, press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/.... It’s coming out on March 8, 2024! #SocAF #SocTwitter #Diaspora #SocialMovements #FilipinoScholars
January 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Deeply honored and humbled to have blurbs for my first book from these scholars. Details of my book is available on The University of Chicago Press website, press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/.... It’s coming out on March 8, 2024! #SocAF #SocTwitter #Diaspora #SocialMovements #FilipinoScholars