USC Sociology
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A department with a proud history, our faculty includes some of the leading sociologists across multiple/diverse fields.
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Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
Many food pantries are already operating at capacity and won't be able to close the gap when the federal shutdown cuts into aid.
www.latimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sharing an op-ed I penned about the importance of SNAP--not just for the program's beneficiaries, but for all us. In the meantime, we're putting a lot of pressure on local food pantries--and they will certainly need our support. (TLDR: give money to your local orgs)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
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November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This week we welcome @eri-usc.bsky.social postdoc Rishi Awatramani to our department colloquium!
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This week we welcome @eri-usc.bsky.social postdoc Rishi Awatramani to our department colloquium!
USC Visions and Voices present Art After Dark: Explore the USC Fisher Museum after hours and enjoy an evening filled with live performances, music, activities, and more!🎨
📅Thursday, November 6th from 6:00-9:00PM
Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/art-after-...
📅Thursday, November 6th from 6:00-9:00PM
Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/art-after-...
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
USC Visions and Voices present Art After Dark: Explore the USC Fisher Museum after hours and enjoy an evening filled with live performances, music, activities, and more!🎨
📅Thursday, November 6th from 6:00-9:00PM
Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/art-after-...
📅Thursday, November 6th from 6:00-9:00PM
Reserve your spot: www.eventbrite.com/e/art-after-...
Join @eri-usc.bsky.social this Monday, November 3rd for a free screening of Harry Belafonte's life and legacy📽️ The screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Susanne Rostock, Women's March convenor Carmen Perez-Jordan, and artist Aloe Blacc. RSVP⬇️
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Join @eri-usc.bsky.social this Monday, November 3rd for a free screening of Harry Belafonte's life and legacy📽️ The screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Susanne Rostock, Women's March convenor Carmen Perez-Jordan, and artist Aloe Blacc. RSVP⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/following-...
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New op-ed by Professor Jody Agius Vallejo @jodyav.bsky.social and Professor Sean Angst:
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/22/o...
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/22/o...
Orange County’s future depends on supporting immigrants today
Orange County has a choice: allow fear to hollow out our future or lead the way in building a county where all can thrive.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New op-ed by Professor Jody Agius Vallejo @jodyav.bsky.social and Professor Sean Angst:
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/22/o...
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/22/o...
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Thank you, @eri-usc.bsky.social & @uscsociology.bsky.social, for having us at the ERI Fall Faculty & Graduate Student Lunch and Learn! 👨🏻🏫
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Thank you, @eri-usc.bsky.social & @uscsociology.bsky.social, for having us at the ERI Fall Faculty & Graduate Student Lunch and Learn! 👨🏻🏫
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Why Trump’s Compact for Higher Ed deserves an ‘F’ (hint: it’s not just for the facism . . .) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Trump's ultimatum to USC and others is a dismally researched document
We give it an F. Though considering portions of it are plagiarized, it probably shouldn't even be graded.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Why Trump’s Compact for Higher Ed deserves an ‘F’ (hint: it’s not just for the facism . . .) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Here is the recording of my Levan Center book chat about The High School, with Alice Echols, Jeff Montez de Oca and CJ Pascoe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUco...
Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School
YouTube video by USC Levan Institute for the Humanities
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October 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here is the recording of my Levan Center book chat about The High School, with Alice Echols, Jeff Montez de Oca and CJ Pascoe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUco...
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📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.
September 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.
Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.
USC Levan Book Chat: Join Professor Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
@uncpress.bsky.social📖
Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
@uncpress.bsky.social📖
Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
Levan Book Chat—Brittany Friedman, Carceral Apartheid
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September 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
USC Levan Book Chat: Join Professor Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social for a virtual discussion of her new book, Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
@uncpress.bsky.social📖
Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
@uncpress.bsky.social📖
Register for the 9/29 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
NEW PUB📢 PhD candidate Shawntae Mitchum's new article is out now in Social Problems @socprobsjournal.bsky.social:
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“If not us, then who?”: black faculty and staff experiencing racial equity trauma while doing diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of the summer 2020 racial reckoning
ABSTRACT. In the summer of 2020, the heightened visibility of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police catalyzed reform effort
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September 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
NEW PUB📢 PhD candidate Shawntae Mitchum's new article is out now in Social Problems @socprobsjournal.bsky.social:
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
USC Levan Book Chat: Join Michael A. Messner @mam52.bsky.social, professor emeritus of sociology, for a virtual discussion of his new book, The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024📖
Register for the 9/18 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
Register for the 9/18 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School
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September 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
USC Levan Book Chat: Join Michael A. Messner @mam52.bsky.social, professor emeritus of sociology, for a virtual discussion of his new book, The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024📖
Register for the 9/18 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
Register for the 9/18 event: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
This week we welcome Professor Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social to our department colloquium!
September 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This week we welcome Professor Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social to our department colloquium!
📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The affective strategies of White unknowing: how police violence reveals the expression of racialized emotions on Twitter
Abstract. Racism shapes the ways racialized actors and groups feel about the social world, but how does racism get reproduced through affective politics, t
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September 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Great new piece by three grad students who are part of @uscsociology.bsky.social and @eri-usc.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2025/09/...
DUI to Deportation: What H.R. 875 Could Mean for Immigrant Communities - USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)
Data and Analysis to Power Social Change
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September 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Great new piece by three grad students who are part of @uscsociology.bsky.social and @eri-usc.bsky.social dornsife.usc.edu/eri/2025/09/...
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Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social
"We continually witness the power of white solidarity across class, law enforcement, and personal boundaries—even if the actors are complete strangers—in support of the collective decimation of Black people." @curlyprofessor.bsky.social w/ @uncpress.bsky.social inquest.org/united-i...
United in Hate - Brittany Friedman - Inquest
White civilians often spontaneously cooperate in acts of racial hatred. It’s a web of racist solidarity that Black people know all too well.
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July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Appreciate @inquest.bsky.social publishing this excerpt from my book Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. @uncpress.bsky.social
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Collective memory is the way that we remember history and that becomes central to our idea of who we are as a people. It’s a process of storytelling and the most central stories to who we are as a people.
So let’s talk about the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. (1/4)
So let’s talk about the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. (1/4)
August 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Collective memory is the way that we remember history and that becomes central to our idea of who we are as a people. It’s a process of storytelling and the most central stories to who we are as a people.
So let’s talk about the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. (1/4)
So let’s talk about the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. (1/4)
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Looking forward to my September 18 USC Levan Institute Book Chat about The High School with CJ Pascoe, Jeff Montez de Oca, and Alice Echols. Register for this virtual event here: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School
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August 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Looking forward to my September 18 USC Levan Institute Book Chat about The High School with CJ Pascoe, Jeff Montez de Oca, and Alice Echols. Register for this virtual event here: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
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Don't boys deserve the same level of protection as girls in sports? Is this a case for a universal switch to flag football?
Michael Messner, professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at USC Dornsife, writes in @latimes.com:
Michael Messner, professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at USC Dornsife, writes in @latimes.com:
Contributor: If tackle football isn't safe for girls, why do we let boys play?
An explosion of enthusiasm for girls’ flag football has led some to wonder why we're protecting one sex while celebrating the sport's dangers for another.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Don't boys deserve the same level of protection as girls in sports? Is this a case for a universal switch to flag football?
Michael Messner, professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at USC Dornsife, writes in @latimes.com:
Michael Messner, professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at USC Dornsife, writes in @latimes.com:
@jodyav.bsky.social and @profmpastor.bsky.social spoke with the @latimes.com to express their concerns about how recent events are affecting L.A. citizens.
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Sociologists are concerned about L.A. citizens during a year of unrest. Citizens in L.A have witnessed a summer of unrest including wildfire recovery, ICE raids and protests. Elisha, a video intern fo...
TikTok video by The Los Angeles Times
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August 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
@jodyav.bsky.social and @profmpastor.bsky.social spoke with the @latimes.com to express their concerns about how recent events are affecting L.A. citizens.
www.tiktok.com/@latimes/vid...
www.tiktok.com/@latimes/vid...
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I'm delighted to share my new article in @readdemography.bsky.social!
“Female Advantages in Education & Union Formation”: @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social uses DHS & Colombia census data to assess changes in union entry & assortative mating in a middle-income setting where women are, overall, better educated. @uscsociology.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm delighted to share my new article in @readdemography.bsky.social!
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Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @uscsociology.bsky.social @usc.edu bit.ly/POPfellows%E...
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Brittany Friedman! @curlyprofessor.bsky.social @uscsociology.bsky.social @usc.edu bit.ly/POPfellows%E...
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In their recent article @sociusjournal.bsky.social, ASA members Jennifer L. Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social @usc.edu & Meiying Li (Cornell U) find that long paid leave, specifically, as opposed to work-family policies, is associated w/ a larger gender earnings gap for moms.
National Work-Family Policies and Gender Earnings Inequality in 26 OECD Countries, 1999 to 2019 - Jennifer L. Hook, Meiying Li, 2025
The authors investigate whether work-family policies help incorporate women into the labor market, but exacerbate the gender earnings gap and motherhood penalty...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In their recent article @sociusjournal.bsky.social, ASA members Jennifer L. Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social @usc.edu & Meiying Li (Cornell U) find that long paid leave, specifically, as opposed to work-family policies, is associated w/ a larger gender earnings gap for moms.
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I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.
June 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.