Andrew M. Garcia
@amgarcia.bsky.social
Criminology (and sociology) prof w/ research interests in child abuse and maltreatment, emotional abuse, IPV, and social psych. JD/PHD. Based in north TX/DFW
I heart speculative fiction, 90s alternative, soccer, and visiting libraries.
I heart speculative fiction, 90s alternative, soccer, and visiting libraries.
One week before ASC (American Society of Criminology)
I'm looking forward to chairing an important panel on victim services research and presenting my own work with child abuse and maltreatment laws.
I would love to meet Blue sky folks that will be there!
#criminology #ASC2025 #Sociology
I'm looking forward to chairing an important panel on victim services research and presenting my own work with child abuse and maltreatment laws.
I would love to meet Blue sky folks that will be there!
#criminology #ASC2025 #Sociology
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
One week before ASC (American Society of Criminology)
I'm looking forward to chairing an important panel on victim services research and presenting my own work with child abuse and maltreatment laws.
I would love to meet Blue sky folks that will be there!
#criminology #ASC2025 #Sociology
I'm looking forward to chairing an important panel on victim services research and presenting my own work with child abuse and maltreatment laws.
I would love to meet Blue sky folks that will be there!
#criminology #ASC2025 #Sociology
One of my favorite things to do on Bluesky is politely lurk while other academic disciplines discuss stuff they're excited about.
E.g., marine biologists and ichthyologists sending cool pictures of fish to each other and being very geeked about it.
I am over here like:
#AcademicSky
E.g., marine biologists and ichthyologists sending cool pictures of fish to each other and being very geeked about it.
I am over here like:
#AcademicSky
January 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
One of my favorite things to do on Bluesky is politely lurk while other academic disciplines discuss stuff they're excited about.
E.g., marine biologists and ichthyologists sending cool pictures of fish to each other and being very geeked about it.
I am over here like:
#AcademicSky
E.g., marine biologists and ichthyologists sending cool pictures of fish to each other and being very geeked about it.
I am over here like:
#AcademicSky
Victor Hugo, pretending he didn't hear this:
December 30, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Victor Hugo, pretending he didn't hear this:
How your email finds me right now:
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
December 27, 2024 at 8:38 PM
How your email finds me right now:
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
I don't need this kind of truth during the holidays 😂 #AcademicSky
December 27, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I don't need this kind of truth during the holidays 😂 #AcademicSky
Hello #criminology and #criminaljustice folks!
Inspired by the BookSky horde, I'd love to hear about supplemental texts you have successfully utilized in your courses.
I have been using Rios' Punished (2011) for a few different classes and found that it resonates strongly with my students!
Inspired by the BookSky horde, I'd love to hear about supplemental texts you have successfully utilized in your courses.
I have been using Rios' Punished (2011) for a few different classes and found that it resonates strongly with my students!
November 25, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Hello #criminology and #criminaljustice folks!
Inspired by the BookSky horde, I'd love to hear about supplemental texts you have successfully utilized in your courses.
I have been using Rios' Punished (2011) for a few different classes and found that it resonates strongly with my students!
Inspired by the BookSky horde, I'd love to hear about supplemental texts you have successfully utilized in your courses.
I have been using Rios' Punished (2011) for a few different classes and found that it resonates strongly with my students!
I was helping my partner curate the books left behind in her classroom (she teaches 5th) and stumbled upon this Asimov (1972) book I didn't know about!
#BookSky
#BookSky
August 18, 2023 at 5:31 PM
I was helping my partner curate the books left behind in her classroom (she teaches 5th) and stumbled upon this Asimov (1972) book I didn't know about!
#BookSky
#BookSky
As a Mainer, you should know that you're surrounded ;)
As I'm in Mass, I'm surrounded by SPURS folks, so it could be worse :(
As I'm in Mass, I'm surrounded by SPURS folks, so it could be worse :(
August 13, 2023 at 3:37 PM
As a Mainer, you should know that you're surrounded ;)
As I'm in Mass, I'm surrounded by SPURS folks, so it could be worse :(
As I'm in Mass, I'm surrounded by SPURS folks, so it could be worse :(
Went to the Worcester Public Library's Community Block Party this morning and it had such good vibes.
We don't deserve public libraries and the selfless folks that make them run. ❤️
We don't deserve public libraries and the selfless folks that make them run. ❤️
August 12, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Went to the Worcester Public Library's Community Block Party this morning and it had such good vibes.
We don't deserve public libraries and the selfless folks that make them run. ❤️
We don't deserve public libraries and the selfless folks that make them run. ❤️
Hey @aahabershaw.bsky.social
I had to show love and support for a New England speculative fiction writer that also teaches in academia. You're kind of living my dream. Looking forward to it!
I had to show love and support for a New England speculative fiction writer that also teaches in academia. You're kind of living my dream. Looking forward to it!
August 11, 2023 at 7:06 PM
Hey @aahabershaw.bsky.social
I had to show love and support for a New England speculative fiction writer that also teaches in academia. You're kind of living my dream. Looking forward to it!
I had to show love and support for a New England speculative fiction writer that also teaches in academia. You're kind of living my dream. Looking forward to it!
I have officially received the "make sure your syllabus includes the attached boilerplate language" email...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
August 11, 2023 at 4:57 PM
I have officially received the "make sure your syllabus includes the attached boilerplate language" email...
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
When I left a year ago, I thought leaving Texas beaches for their Massachusetts counterparts would be a sad transition. Reader, I was wildly wrong about this.
Pictured: White Horse Beach on the South Shore (near Plymouth, Mass).
Pictured: White Horse Beach on the South Shore (near Plymouth, Mass).
August 10, 2023 at 1:31 AM
When I left a year ago, I thought leaving Texas beaches for their Massachusetts counterparts would be a sad transition. Reader, I was wildly wrong about this.
Pictured: White Horse Beach on the South Shore (near Plymouth, Mass).
Pictured: White Horse Beach on the South Shore (near Plymouth, Mass).
Good afternoon BS friends!
Heads up that Chabon's "Moonglow" (Kindle version) is 2 bucks today on the HarperCollins website (and Amazon, etc.)
MC is one of my favorite American novelists and I am willing to proselytize on this one.
Heads up that Chabon's "Moonglow" (Kindle version) is 2 bucks today on the HarperCollins website (and Amazon, etc.)
MC is one of my favorite American novelists and I am willing to proselytize on this one.
August 5, 2023 at 7:19 PM
Good afternoon BS friends!
Heads up that Chabon's "Moonglow" (Kindle version) is 2 bucks today on the HarperCollins website (and Amazon, etc.)
MC is one of my favorite American novelists and I am willing to proselytize on this one.
Heads up that Chabon's "Moonglow" (Kindle version) is 2 bucks today on the HarperCollins website (and Amazon, etc.)
MC is one of my favorite American novelists and I am willing to proselytize on this one.
My partner likes the Yao Cheng planners from, fittingly, Blue Sky (seen below).
August 4, 2023 at 7:56 PM
My partner likes the Yao Cheng planners from, fittingly, Blue Sky (seen below).
New characters for Clue just dropped.
August 2, 2023 at 6:43 PM
New characters for Clue just dropped.
Exciting old person news:
(1) I recently attended a concert for a band that was formed in 2017. The show did not begin at 5PM in a casino.
(2) I believe I largely assimilated into the cool kid crowd. I was not ironic Dad-core!
(1) I recently attended a concert for a band that was formed in 2017. The show did not begin at 5PM in a casino.
(2) I believe I largely assimilated into the cool kid crowd. I was not ironic Dad-core!
August 2, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Exciting old person news:
(1) I recently attended a concert for a band that was formed in 2017. The show did not begin at 5PM in a casino.
(2) I believe I largely assimilated into the cool kid crowd. I was not ironic Dad-core!
(1) I recently attended a concert for a band that was formed in 2017. The show did not begin at 5PM in a casino.
(2) I believe I largely assimilated into the cool kid crowd. I was not ironic Dad-core!
I won my first ARC from Goodreads last night! Really excited about this one 🔥
July 22, 2023 at 11:41 AM
I won my first ARC from Goodreads last night! Really excited about this one 🔥
This is now my only system of measurement. "I need a Hogshead of cojack cheese, good sir."
July 22, 2023 at 11:38 AM
This is now my only system of measurement. "I need a Hogshead of cojack cheese, good sir."
Saw Counting Crows in Providence last night (w/ Dashboard Confessional), roughly 23 years after I saw them for the first time!
July 19, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Saw Counting Crows in Providence last night (w/ Dashboard Confessional), roughly 23 years after I saw them for the first time!
It took me a year of living in greater Boston but...I get it now.
July 18, 2023 at 4:48 PM
It took me a year of living in greater Boston but...I get it now.
I wish I could say I could hold off from professional reading for a summer but alas:
NEXT UP:
EMPATHY: A HISTORY, SUSAN LANZONI (Yale Press, 2018)
A conceptual history of empathy by Lanzoni, a noted psych historical at Harvard. Very geeked for this one.
NEXT UP:
EMPATHY: A HISTORY, SUSAN LANZONI (Yale Press, 2018)
A conceptual history of empathy by Lanzoni, a noted psych historical at Harvard. Very geeked for this one.
July 18, 2023 at 4:32 PM
I wish I could say I could hold off from professional reading for a summer but alas:
NEXT UP:
EMPATHY: A HISTORY, SUSAN LANZONI (Yale Press, 2018)
A conceptual history of empathy by Lanzoni, a noted psych historical at Harvard. Very geeked for this one.
NEXT UP:
EMPATHY: A HISTORY, SUSAN LANZONI (Yale Press, 2018)
A conceptual history of empathy by Lanzoni, a noted psych historical at Harvard. Very geeked for this one.
Currently reading:
GOLDEN SUN, PIERCE BROWN
Second entry in Brown's Red Rising series, a dystopian political sci fi in which humans have been demarcated into colors (based on their occupational role in society) and live throughout the solar system. The series is the darling of social media rn!
GOLDEN SUN, PIERCE BROWN
Second entry in Brown's Red Rising series, a dystopian political sci fi in which humans have been demarcated into colors (based on their occupational role in society) and live throughout the solar system. The series is the darling of social media rn!
July 18, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Currently reading:
GOLDEN SUN, PIERCE BROWN
Second entry in Brown's Red Rising series, a dystopian political sci fi in which humans have been demarcated into colors (based on their occupational role in society) and live throughout the solar system. The series is the darling of social media rn!
GOLDEN SUN, PIERCE BROWN
Second entry in Brown's Red Rising series, a dystopian political sci fi in which humans have been demarcated into colors (based on their occupational role in society) and live throughout the solar system. The series is the darling of social media rn!
Books! As an academic, the summer is a rare opportunity to catch up on *the list* (IYKYK)
So, just finished:
LAKEWOOD, MEGAN GIDDINGS
A jarring, thoughtful slow burn that intersects modern science fiction with social commentary on the history of medical/scientific racism. Recommend.
So, just finished:
LAKEWOOD, MEGAN GIDDINGS
A jarring, thoughtful slow burn that intersects modern science fiction with social commentary on the history of medical/scientific racism. Recommend.
July 18, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Books! As an academic, the summer is a rare opportunity to catch up on *the list* (IYKYK)
So, just finished:
LAKEWOOD, MEGAN GIDDINGS
A jarring, thoughtful slow burn that intersects modern science fiction with social commentary on the history of medical/scientific racism. Recommend.
So, just finished:
LAKEWOOD, MEGAN GIDDINGS
A jarring, thoughtful slow burn that intersects modern science fiction with social commentary on the history of medical/scientific racism. Recommend.