Cool Urban Institute podcast featuring one of my amazing Cornell Dept of Sociology Latina undergrads, Clara Alvarez Caraveo (and Marta Tienda), who is applying to Soc PhD programs this fall! There's even a shout out to my Race & Ethnicity class (woo hoo)! urban.org/criticalvalue/…

A Haskins jersey will def be arriving for Christmas! Go Blue! @AnnaRHaskins

15% of boys born between 1978 and 1983 who grew up in the Black middle-class neighborhood of Bloomingdale were behind bars in 2010. Left map: 1990 income. Right map: incarceration rate. opportunityatlas.org

MY LATEST Los Angeles Times COLUMNA: Vicente Fernández’s journey was our parents’ journey. Long may they live. RT, porfas! latimes.com/california/sto…

Houston Newsmakers: Another groundbreaking leadership change at Rice University - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_tEt…

"In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you; in the name of God I command you to stop the repression!” St Oscar Romero, assassinated by U.S.-backed forces while saying Mass in San Salvador, March 24, 1980

New paper with Steven E. Alvarado out now in City & Community! We find that exposure to neighborhood disadvantage across two generations reduces earnings in adulthood for White (21.34% decline) and Latino (36.24% decline) Americans, but not Black Americans. doi.org/10.1177/153568…

The U.S. Census Bureau released incredible new data about Hispanic/Latino population growth in the US: - 71% of US pop growth is from Hisp. pop. - growth is due to natural increase (deaths<births) - Hisp. now one-fifth of US pop (65M out of 336M) Read more: census.gov/newsroom/press…

The Department of Sociology at University of Notre Dame invites applications for an open-rank/open-subdiscipline position. Come work with us--we're pretty great! Erin McDonnell is the search chair. I'm happy to talk with folks! apply.interfolio.com/150575 ND Arts & Letters

We must defend birthright citizenship. 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 unconditional.

For those unaware Burawoy’s personal website (linked in second comment) is a treasure trove of his writings. All or nearly all his books and articles are freely and fully available there. 1/3

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 BLS-Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Education data accessible to researchers and the public alike!

My sociological journey began in many ways with Michael Burawoy as an undergrad at UC Berkeley Sociology. Meeting with Erik Olin Wright in Burawoy's office when I got accepted to UW-Madison Sociology further propelled me on my intellectual path. I've been very lucky to have been taught by both. RIP.

The halting of educational research is devastating and weakens the nation’s intellectual competitiveness. edweek.org/policy-politic…

Perusing the UW-Madison CDE library for some hits! What a lineup of classic stratification research! Now it’s up to us to secure the *future* of sociological research! UW-Madison Sociology NCES BLS-Labor Statistics U.S. Census Bureau

**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. apply.interfolio.com/164239

Take it from me, a University of Notre Dame Professor and expert in education research, this is a good thing! Supreme Court 4-4 vote ends Oklahoma's taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school pbs.org/newshour/natio…

The damage already done to IES and NCES will be difficult to repair, but this will hopefully get education research back on the road to recovery. Judge blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle Education Department pbs.org/newshour/polit…

Notre Dame Population Analytics (ND Pop) is hiring an Associate Director! Start date of September 2025! Help lead a rapidly growing and highly resourced pop center! careers.nd.edu/search-careers…

So great to be back on the Terrace! #Madison #Wisconsin