It’s publication day for “Political Science as a Dependent Variable.”

I hope you’ll have a look and join me in considering how the NSF shaped political science and the social sciences more generally.

The article draws on historical records of the 1/5

⏰ April 30 deadline for submitting paper abstracts for 2024 conference.

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Really happy to learn that my paper on legal theories of the corporation received Honorable Mention from SER’s Best Article Prize! 🎉 Also very honored to be in the company of such other outstanding papers!

Happy publication day! We reconstructed the metric of a social credit system to examine its logic and unequal focus on social groups, showing the codified biases and clumsiness that impairs the already-plausible promise of governing with numbers.
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Mark your calendars: Xiaohong Xu's memorial conference, with a spectacular list of speakers. Hybrid event, please register here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/xiaohongxu/reg…

New paper just accepted at Demography Journal with Regina Baker & Ryan Finnigan: “The Role of Single Motherhood in America’s High Child Poverty.”

The role is small or modest. The US would have HIGH child poverty even if there was ZERO single motherhood.

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'we examine how religion influenced officials’ reported personal health behaviors (mask wearing, social distancing) and attitudes toward institutional reopenings.' 😷

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Volume 48 of Social Science History SSHA is now published, containing my Presidential Address “Reverberations of Empire,” a book forum on Steinmetz’s “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought” & other delicious reads. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited to share my new article, “Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and Social Closure in Silicon Valley” - out now in AJS! This one was years in the making and I’m so glad it’s finally out in the world. Read on below: doi.org/10.1086/729506

In honor of Wendy Cadge's appointment as the next president at Bryn Mawr College, allow me to re-up this touching episode of 'Religion Unmuted' in which she discusses the important role chaplains play in hospitals (and social life in general). Congrats, Wendy!🎉