Steven Alvarado
@sealvarado.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame. #firstgen. I study inequality in education, race/ethnicity, neighborhoods, health, migration, and economic well-being using BIG longitudinal data. Los Angeles born/raised with roots in El Salvador
Endowed Chair in Demography at the rank of Full Professor at Notre Dame Population Analytics is now open for applications. I highly encourage established faculty with a strong research program and entrepreneurial spirit to apply! @ndsociology.bsky.social
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August 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Endowed Chair in Demography at the rank of Full Professor at Notre Dame Population Analytics is now open for applications. I highly encourage established faculty with a strong research program and entrepreneurial spirit to apply! @ndsociology.bsky.social
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Notre Dame Population Analytics (ND Pop) is hiring an Associate Director! Start date of September 2025! Be part of a rapidly growing and highly resourced pop center!
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Make a difference at Notre Dame! Contribute to groundbreaking research, shape young minds, and create a supportive campus. Your work matters.
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June 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Notre Dame Population Analytics (ND Pop) is hiring an Associate Director! Start date of September 2025! Be part of a rapidly growing and highly resourced pop center!
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**JOB ALERT** Notre Dame's new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. $75k/year, $15k research expenses, open area, & up to 2 years. Come work with great Sociology colleagues in a resource rich environment.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
**JOB ALERT** Notre Dame's new Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. $75k/year, $15k research expenses, open area, & up to 2 years. Come work with great Sociology colleagues in a resource rich environment.
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The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
Educators Sue to Challenge Trump Administration's Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws, Attack Educational Programs and Student Opportunities - Democracy Forward
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February 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
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Hundreds of asylum seekers were deported from the U.S. to Panama and locked in a hotel without access to lawyers, or their own passports.
Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama
The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hundreds of asylum seekers were deported from the U.S. to Panama and locked in a hotel without access to lawyers, or their own passports.
I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for graduate training fellowships from NSF and IES. My work depends on federal restricted data. This is absolutely devastating for future generations of researchers. I’m glad @agamoran.bsky.social is using his immense influence to fight back.
What I told @science.org about the wanton cancellation of valuable education statistics & evaluation contracts: “In my view, the termination of these contracts is capricious and wasteful and cruel…” 1/2 www.science.org/content/arti...
Canceling data collections could imperil efforts to improve U.S. education, a former Trump appointee warns
Ex-head of National Center for Education Statistics describes impact of massive halt to survey research
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February 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for graduate training fellowships from NSF and IES. My work depends on federal restricted data. This is absolutely devastating for future generations of researchers. I’m glad @agamoran.bsky.social is using his immense influence to fight back.
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Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
Trump administration threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
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February 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ed Department: DEI Violates Civil Rights Law
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hCrabL
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We continue to monitor and act on developments relating to federal data accessibility, collection, & reporting. Our partners at ICPSR have an archive tool for crowdsourcing government data. We encourage AERA members to utilize it. Learn more: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
February 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We continue to monitor and act on developments relating to federal data accessibility, collection, & reporting. Our partners at ICPSR have an archive tool for crowdsourcing government data. We encourage AERA members to utilize it. Learn more: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
I was just thinking that ICPSR should be the nation’s data repository earlier today. Thank you @icpsr.bsky.social on behalf of all us researchers who depend on quality federal data.
FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
February 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I was just thinking that ICPSR should be the nation’s data repository earlier today. Thank you @icpsr.bsky.social on behalf of all us researchers who depend on quality federal data.
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This Small Rust-Belt City Holds the Secret to Democrats’ Latino Woes
Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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It is more important than ever to heed Mills’s call and focus our sociological gaze on elites.
About 3 months ago, the print version of this article had this lead:
"Elon Musk has 240 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?"
Today, the same article came online with a small update:
"Elon Musk has 400 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?"
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"Elon Musk has 240 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?"
Today, the same article came online with a small update:
"Elon Musk has 400 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?"
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
Not a level playing field
LMU sociologist Fabian Pfeffer explains why the extreme wealth gap harms society and democracy and leads to a distinctly uneven spread of opportunities for coming generations. From the research magazi...
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February 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It is more important than ever to heed Mills’s call and focus our sociological gaze on elites.
Burawoy on marketization and commodification (from 2016), Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx (2019), and W. E. B. Du Bois’s understanding of the period of Reconstruction (2023). #sociology
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Remembering Michael Burawoy | KPFA
The prominent sociologist, writer, and U.C. Berkeley professor emeritus Michael Burawoy passed away on February 3. We present excerpts from three interviews with Burawoy, about marketization and commo...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Burawoy on marketization and commodification (from 2016), Pierre Bourdieu and Karl Marx (2019), and W. E. B. Du Bois’s understanding of the period of Reconstruction (2023). #sociology
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In my Race & Film class, I teach about Disney’s infamously racist and long-cancelled “Song of the South” - perhaps making a comeback from exile to Disney+ soon.
Disney is reducing content warnings that caution viewers about racial stereotypes on some of its classic films, including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan,” as part of a wider revamp of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs as it adjusts to the new Trump era.
Disney scales back content warnings on classic films amid DEI shift
Classic films including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan” will no longer autoplay warnings about racial stereotypes. It comes as Trump cracks down on diversity initiatives.
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February 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In my Race & Film class, I teach about Disney’s infamously racist and long-cancelled “Song of the South” - perhaps making a comeback from exile to Disney+ soon.
After a few months of using the online ADRF platform, I was dissatisfied and decided to migrate all my NCES restricted data work back to the cold room in November ‘24. Most universities should have cold rooms by now. We’re currently modernizing ours at CREO at Notre Dame.
$900 Million in Institute of Education Sciences Contracts Axed
The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3QdLZ15
The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3QdLZ15
$900M in Institute of Education Sciences contracts axed
The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted.
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February 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
After a few months of using the online ADRF platform, I was dissatisfied and decided to migrate all my NCES restricted data work back to the cold room in November ‘24. Most universities should have cold rooms by now. We’re currently modernizing ours at CREO at Notre Dame.
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U Mich doing a great job informing community about developments in research funding
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Fed Research Blog
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February 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
U Mich doing a great job informing community about developments in research funding
research.umich.edu/fed-research...
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Another titan of the field has fallen. As a sociologist of inequality, education, & neighborhoods, I am deeply indebted to Jencks. I met him once at a breakfast at Ruth Lopez Turley’s house in grad school at Wisconsin. What an amazing scholar and human being.
February 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Another titan of the field has fallen. As a sociologist of inequality, education, & neighborhoods, I am deeply indebted to Jencks. I met him once at a breakfast at Ruth Lopez Turley’s house in grad school at Wisconsin. What an amazing scholar and human being.
FYI. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Latino men and Black women have steadily had highest labor force participation in recent decades.
February 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
FYI. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Latino men and Black women have steadily had highest labor force participation in recent decades.
It was huge honor - and somewhat surreal - to give a demography seminar in the very room where @agamoran.bsky.social hooded me with my PhD and where I saw Heckman give a talk once in grad school.
👏Many thanks to Steven Alvarado (@sealvarado.bsky.social) for presenting at #UWDemSem today!
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February 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It was huge honor - and somewhat surreal - to give a demography seminar in the very room where @agamoran.bsky.social hooded me with my PhD and where I saw Heckman give a talk once in grad school.
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Again, another day has gone by & the presidents of major research universities are deafeningly silent in the face of existential threats because of the potential end of federal funding. It's like watching the failure to stand up to Scott Walker & the Wisconsin GOP for a decade, on a national scale.
February 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Again, another day has gone by & the presidents of major research universities are deafeningly silent in the face of existential threats because of the potential end of federal funding. It's like watching the failure to stand up to Scott Walker & the Wisconsin GOP for a decade, on a national scale.
I'm heading back to Madison to give a seminar on a paper made possible by access to decades of restricted federal data that is increasingly under threat. Let's keep @dol.gov, Census, and @usedgov.bsky.social data accessible to researchers and the public alike!
🌟Our first spring Visting Scholar Steven Alvarado (@sealvarado.bsky.social) will present #UWDemSem next week "The Growing Divide: Neighborhood Disadvantage & College Outcomes Across Demographic Cohorts"@cdhauw.bsky.social
➡️DemSem: cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/
➡️VS program: cde.wisc.edu/research/cde...
➡️DemSem: cde.wisc.edu/events/demsem/
➡️VS program: cde.wisc.edu/research/cde...
February 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I'm heading back to Madison to give a seminar on a paper made possible by access to decades of restricted federal data that is increasingly under threat. Let's keep @dol.gov, Census, and @usedgov.bsky.social data accessible to researchers and the public alike!
As an undergrad sociology major at Berkeley, I was in awe of Burawoy. He was a mix of a folk hero and titan in the field. My passion for the discipline was honed by his theory class. So tragic. Hope he and Erik are reunited in power in Soc heaven.
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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.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
As an undergrad sociology major at Berkeley, I was in awe of Burawoy. He was a mix of a folk hero and titan in the field. My passion for the discipline was honed by his theory class. So tragic. Hope he and Erik are reunited in power in Soc heaven.
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We must defend birthright citizenship for all. Under the proposed policy, I would be denied U.S. citizenship because my parents were undocumented. There would be one less Latino professor at an elite university and the nation would not be any safer. The 14th amendment is clear and unconditional.
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We must defend birthright citizenship for all. Under the proposed policy, I would be denied U.S. citizenship because my parents were undocumented. There would be one less Latino professor at an elite university and the nation would not be any safer. The 14th amendment is clear and unconditional.
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GEOWEALTH is an incredible new data source on wealth inequality in the US since 1960! Kudos to @dyligent.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social and team
More here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data here: github.com/jhsuss/wealt...
#socsky #sociology
More here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data here: github.com/jhsuss/wealt...
#socsky #sociology
December 5, 2024 at 7:32 PM
GEOWEALTH is an incredible new data source on wealth inequality in the US since 1960! Kudos to @dyligent.bsky.social @tkemeny.bsky.social and team
More here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data here: github.com/jhsuss/wealt...
#socsky #sociology
More here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data here: github.com/jhsuss/wealt...
#socsky #sociology
I’m proud to be a part of Notre Dame’s new Population Analytics center which will accelerate policy-relevant work through big data news.nd.edu/news/college...
College of Arts & Letters launches ND Population Analytics to accelerate policy-relevant work through big data
In partnership with the University of Notre Dame’s Poverty Initiative, the College of Arts & Letters has launched a data-focused research effo...
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December 13, 2024 at 2:06 AM
I’m proud to be a part of Notre Dame’s new Population Analytics center which will accelerate policy-relevant work through big data news.nd.edu/news/college...