20% new season pieces at Mr. Porter? Let’s gooooooooo

Hilariously, the subject line of the provost’s email was “Inclusive Teaching.” Seems obvious to me the message was “Don’t wear a Palestine flag if you’re teaching astronomy”, but they can’t actually say that, so instead they’re forced to undermine the entire DEI 2.0 initiative.

Al Young assigned The Philadelphia Negro in his Social Organization of Black America course I took as an undergrad, and he was super clear on this point--so much so that I still remember it, many years later. I mean, compare that book to anything in AJS for the next 40 years!

Jeering a die-in with smiles on their faces is next level dickhead behavior. I mean come on. *Glee* in mass civilian death?

Been a while since I had an entirely new prep. I did...not prepare well.

#polisci faculty & students! Know of promising undergrads who might consider a PhD in political science? Please encourage them to apply to U. of Michigan's 14th annual Emerging Scholars Conference! Application deadline = MONDAY, SEPT. 16. Details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1GL…

Exciting to launch trueviews.org today w/ its brilliant engineers Chris Warshaw Nicholas Stephanopoulos Ruth Greenwood. Check it out!

Are you an assistant prof studying inequality & looking for a 2nd semester of sabbatical support? I hope you'll apply to spend AY25-26 Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics. As a work-family scholar, I am delighted that successful applicants can choose a nonresidential option if that's best for them.

We're extremely excited to start looking at applications for this residential OR nonresidential visiting fellowship at the CID! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have if you're interested.

Looking for the link to the hot new Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA) special issue on Policing in the Urban World? Here it is. Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City Urban Affairs Association tandfonline.com/toc/ujua20/46/8

In their 2019 paper, Chetty et al find a gap in economic mobility between Black and White males. In our paper, Rourke OBrien & I show that municipal police is a key explanation for why we observe a racial mobility gap for males (but not females). OA Roger McIntyre: doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm…

The Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics kicks off its fall speaker series with Angelina Grigoryeva, presenting a novel explanation for gender inequality in wealth in the US: the important role of stock-based compensation. RSVP for the talk and Open House: inequality.umich.edu/angelina-grigo…

In our new study PLOS ONE, we found that the police shooting of Jacob Blake reduced Black Chicago residents’ trust in police. The article is open access, so give it a read! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

The past few years I've been developing a new research agenda exploring how the built environment -- the architecture of urban space -- shapes grassroots politics in urban Africa. Really excited to share part of this work AJPS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/5

In a new study, Rourke OBrien and Manuel Schechtl find a link between larger police forces and the economic mobility gap for Black males. bit.ly/3ZlQfl2