Damon Mayrl
@mayrl.bsky.social
Charles A. Dana Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Colby College. Religion, politics, history, culture, law, policy, vermú. http://mayrl.org, @mayrl@sciences.social, @yrlsoc@x
Please spread the word: Colby's Education Department is looking for a sociologist of education for a 1-year Visiting Assistant Professor position. I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311249/...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education - Waterville, Maine job with Colby College | 1311249
The Education Department at Colby College invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor of education position, beginning Septemb...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Please spread the word: Colby's Education Department is looking for a sociologist of education for a 1-year Visiting Assistant Professor position. I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311249/...
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September 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall.
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
jobs.utoronto.ca
August 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Our department at the University of Toronto is hiring an assistant professor of sociology of race / ethnicity this fall.
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
I'm not on the hiring committee but am very happy to talk to you about the position if you are interested. You can email, DM, or find me at ASA.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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One cool trick to increasing trust in elections and government: make everyone a public official.
Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Confidence in elections among U.S. local officials: Effects of social trust, partisanship and political ambition
The U.S. public’s confidence in elections is intensively studied in the last decade but little is known about election confidence among locally elected officials, whose roles and community status may ...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
One cool trick to increasing trust in elections and government: make everyone a public official.
Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Okay, maybe not, but still our new paper shows that local officials trust elections more. Why? Partly because they have a lot of social trust.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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More skunkworks with @mayrl.bsky.social . Still a couple of small parsing errors ("the participants" and "David"), but clear stratification among thanked entities in Social Science History versus samples of articles from five adjacent disciplines, 1976-2025.
June 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More skunkworks with @mayrl.bsky.social . Still a couple of small parsing errors ("the participants" and "David"), but clear stratification among thanked entities in Social Science History versus samples of articles from five adjacent disciplines, 1976-2025.
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Businesses have long used their bills/receipts to call attention to government policy.
In “Beyond the Hidden American State” @mayrl.bsky.social and I analyzed restaurant bills as sites of political contestation. I'll put the link below.
In “Beyond the Hidden American State” @mayrl.bsky.social and I analyzed restaurant bills as sites of political contestation. I'll put the link below.
White House says Amazon's decision to desplay tariff-based price increases on products is a "a hostile and political act by Amazon," who they accuse of working with "a Chinese propaganda arm."
April 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Businesses have long used their bills/receipts to call attention to government policy.
In “Beyond the Hidden American State” @mayrl.bsky.social and I analyzed restaurant bills as sites of political contestation. I'll put the link below.
In “Beyond the Hidden American State” @mayrl.bsky.social and I analyzed restaurant bills as sites of political contestation. I'll put the link below.
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Looking forward to sharing my book at the Colby College Sociology colloquium on Thursday!
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February 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Looking forward to sharing my book at the Colby College Sociology colloquium on Thursday!
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@mayrl.bsky.social and I have written about what's happening how as a kind of cascade of recognition.
When you call out the role of the government, this can produce spillover effects that highlight additional facets of governance.
When you call out the role of the government, this can produce spillover effects that highlight additional facets of governance.
February 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
@mayrl.bsky.social and I have written about what's happening how as a kind of cascade of recognition.
When you call out the role of the government, this can produce spillover effects that highlight additional facets of governance.
When you call out the role of the government, this can produce spillover effects that highlight additional facets of governance.
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I've been thinking about reasons it's hard to convey the importance of the Musk/Treasury thing and maybe one factor is that people don't realize how *much* of the world is government?
February 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I've been thinking about reasons it's hard to convey the importance of the Musk/Treasury thing and maybe one factor is that people don't realize how *much* of the world is government?
RIP
Michael Burawoy was a wonderful sociologist and person.
We rarely spoke, but we just happened to be emailing in January. He wrote about how much he was loving this phase of his life.
The hit and run scourge is taking so many people who have so much more to live
www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...
We rarely spoke, but we just happened to be emailing in January. He wrote about how much he was loving this phase of his life.
The hit and run scourge is taking so many people who have so much more to live
www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...
Oakland resident dead in hit-and-run crash at intersection
The collision happened around 7:10 p.m. Monday near the entrance to Children’s Fairyland.
www.mercurynews.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
RIP
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A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social.
This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
February 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social.
This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!
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We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.
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Signature Activities | Population Research Institute
Past symposia have focused on issues such as: emerging methods in family research, African American families, diverging destinies of families in an era of increasing inequality, transitions to adulthood, and Hispanic children in immigrant families.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🚨 Please help us spread the word to Early Career Scholars!
We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.
We @pop.psu.edu are happy to welcome our second cohort of External Fellows to Penn State's University Park campus this May for our grant-writing training, networking, and mentoring program. Please see below for more details.
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William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/b...
William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 (Gift Article)
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 (Gift Article) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/b...
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Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.
In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?
If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?
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January 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.
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Spotted in the missed connections section of the local Little Village magazine.
October 5, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Spotted in the missed connections section of the local Little Village magazine.
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An incredibly hot take that I have is that liberal/progressive leaders invoking Christian language because that is what they truly believe is actually a good thing because letting the conservative right have a monopoly on Christianity is catastrophically stupid
I would sincerely recommend that everyone (especially white folks) who feels the urge to dunk on that Hakeem Jeffries “God is still on the throne” tweet take a moment to stop and consider the role of the Black church in US progressive & resistance movements, and how that context applies here.
January 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
An incredibly hot take that I have is that liberal/progressive leaders invoking Christian language because that is what they truly believe is actually a good thing because letting the conservative right have a monopoly on Christianity is catastrophically stupid
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Apply to be an editor for Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! ASA’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities is looking for editor applications from individuals and teams. Applications due March 28, 2025. Read the call here: https://bit.ly/4jsHxZN
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January 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Apply to be an editor for Sociology of Race and Ethnicity! ASA’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities is looking for editor applications from individuals and teams. Applications due March 28, 2025. Read the call here: https://bit.ly/4jsHxZN
#ASA #journals #sociology #research #editor
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UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
Lecturer / Assistant Professor - Computational Social Science, School of Sociology - Dublin, Leinster (IE) job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 386526
We are seeking applications from individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computational Social ...
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January 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
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By the way — if you're curious to learn more about the modern Religious Left, boy do I have the book for you: www.amazon.com/American-Pro...
January 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
By the way — if you're curious to learn more about the modern Religious Left, boy do I have the book for you: www.amazon.com/American-Pro...
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Job Alert➡️ The Department of Sociology & Anthropology @westvirginiau.bsky.social invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) appointment in #Sociology, open area of specialization. Review of applications begins Jan 24, & will continue until filled. sssreligion.org/announcement...
January 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Job Alert➡️ The Department of Sociology & Anthropology @westvirginiau.bsky.social invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) appointment in #Sociology, open area of specialization. Review of applications begins Jan 24, & will continue until filled. sssreligion.org/announcement...
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I went to graduate school to study with a well-known scholar of colorblind racism, and the idea that powerful people couch their hatred in euphemism to avoid social sanction seems increasingly quaint when the world's richest man is doing the Nazi salute at the President's inauguration.
January 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I went to graduate school to study with a well-known scholar of colorblind racism, and the idea that powerful people couch their hatred in euphemism to avoid social sanction seems increasingly quaint when the world's richest man is doing the Nazi salute at the President's inauguration.
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As the new year ramps up, don’t forget about the SSHA conference (our 50th!) in Chicago this November. For more details and to submit a paper see: ssha.org/conference/
Annual Conference
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January 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As the new year ramps up, don’t forget about the SSHA conference (our 50th!) in Chicago this November. For more details and to submit a paper see: ssha.org/conference/
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New podcast interview about my book! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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Benjamin H. Bradlow,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Sociology · 01/13/2025 · 52m
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January 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
New podcast interview about my book! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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