New JSSR Book Review ➡️ Building Faith: A Sociology of Religious Structures by Brenneman & Miller (Oxford Academic, 2020). Reviewer Taylor Hartson says the book "asks readers to see religious buildings as more than fixed structures..." Wiley Humanities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/js…

Continuing to write and think at Legally Sociable.

Happy to see this article on patterns in over 300 teardowns in Naperville, Illinois is in print at the Journal of Urban Design. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Today's The 21st Show: Slavery's role in Illinois history, from the past through to the present. Our guests: -Dr. Caroline M. Kisiel of DePaul SCPS / Illinois Humanities -Kiffany Dugger, grad student at Jackson State U. -Brian Miller of Wheaton College will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story…

Illinois Press DePaul CPE Jacob S. Dorman UNR History Department Wheaton College Sociology and Anthropology Dept. Loyola History Dept Illinois State Historical Society Thank you for posting! Correction: I am DePaul SCPS 🙏🏻.

In Journal of Illinois State Historical Society 116.4, Dr. Caroline M. Kisiel (DePaul CPE) & Brian Miller (Wheaton College Sociology and Anthropology Dept.) analyze the changing forms of racial exclusion via property by examining slavery's legacy, suburban housing, and more. Illinois State Historical Society scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/arti…

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Miller, Professor of Sociology @wheatoncollege, on the publication of SANCTIFYING SUBURBIA Oxford Academic @wheatonexperts Wheaton College Sociology and Anthropology Dept. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Sanctifying Suburbia reviewed in Christianity Today. christianitytoday.com/2025/06/sancti…

LSpost: ""Touring the Deep Tunnel and Thornton Quarry," one of the largest civil engineering projects in the world" bit.ly/1fBYv7f

LSpost: "TV watching crushes all other leisure activities" bit.ly/1LsbzrZ

Source for a possible undergraduate sociology paper... x.com/LSociable/stat…

LSpost: "Continuing to see Illinois highways as growth and job generators" bit.ly/1LCS5C6

Odd but considered. x.com/LSociable/stat…

White Sox and Rays. Beautiful day...not many fans.