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Prof @UMNSociology ; Co-author of #BreakingThePendulum (2017) + author of #TheMinneapolisReckoning (out now!) on the politics of policing.

Minneapolis, MN

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It's been 2 mos since #TheMinneapolisReckoning was published and I've been fortunate to do a lot of public writing. Doing a round-up here of some of my favorites... (full list at: )

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Policing in Minneapolis

The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America was published in May 2024 with Princeton University Press. The book traces the history of the MPD, from its founding...

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Now available, The Minneapolis Reckoning by @MichelleSPhelps describes challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. Learn more about this thought-provoking book:

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Professors: I spent the last 10 years of my life studying this topic. Also Professors: I wrote this talk on the plane and have not practiced it once.

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Here's my hot take of the day: In stats classes, we need to focus more on data cleaning and variable recoding.

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It's finally official and I can announce that my book, tentatively entitled "Policing the Progressive City: Race, Violence and the Future of Public Safety in Minneapolis," is under advance contract with the terrific @PrincetonUPress . Look out, 2024. 🥳

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It's officially July so in honor of that milestone, I just cut & pasted all of my June project goals into the July row. 😂

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I want to force economists to take a class called "Qualitative data are data too"; possible sub-title "Causal inference is not the only goal."

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This is not a drill -- CDC now saying approval for kids 5-11 expected by Nov. 3. I really cannot wait.

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Grad students on the market: If you want to know how many publications it "takes" to get a job, don't pay attn to some (insane) # circulating on this app. Look at the CVs of people recently hired at the kids of places you want to work at +

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So yesterday I officially got awarded tenure & today I got diagnosed with an ear infection. Feels very #onbrand for this academic mama.

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My kid's teacher: Your daughter is kicking her friends. Me, a sociologist: Crime is socially constructed.

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I don't know about the rest of you, but I am 100% not ready for this week we're about to have.

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Joe Biden is prez-elect; Kamala Harris is vp-elect and my 5 y/o son went to preschool in a dress and the only thing kids said was "your dress is beautiful." It is a good day.

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This is something people outside of academia often don't know. It's typical to apply to 30-60 jobs your first year out of grad school as a Soc Ph.D. UG students often ask me why I "chose" to work @ Minnesota. There's lots of good reasons, but the truest one is that they picked me

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Hey, academic tweeps. How many applications did you submit when applying for your first faculty position (e.g., assistant professor)? @AcademicChatter @SPA1938 @psychmag @ARPtweets

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I miss the version of Twitter that was just like threads of weird facts about ladybugs from someone who rescued ladybugs for two decades, and not just everyone's furious reaction to the latest hot take.

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You know what I'd like to see today? A thread of favorite Devah Pager stories. My first: in my first week at Princeton she told me she felt like an imposter. If Devah has imposter syndrome there was hope for us all.

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This. 👇 . Devah was the most committed and engaged advisor I could have had for grad school. The hole she leaves is massive. And the best we can do is continue her legacy in our work and hold her family and friends in our hearts.

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In the words of the great Saida Grundy: This is what ⁦ @ASAnews ⁩’s first time authors of color are up to. Congrats @saigrundy + company! 🔥

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It is heartbreaking that my city, Minneapolis, is trending, again for a police murder. I've spent the last 3 years working on a project on police reform in Minneapolis that is all too relevant right now. So I wanted to share some threads & resources for people. (thread 1/wtfk)

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This all started with the possible forgery of a $20 bill. $20. TWENTY DOLLARS. In a global pandemic. I just... words fail.

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I'm not gonna contribute to RT'd that guy, but just your friendly reminder that daycare is in fact great for kids and parents. Arguing that "parents" are better suited to raise their kids than child care providers is a very thinly veiled attempt to push women out of the workforce

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Honestly, sociologists dunking on economists may be my favorite corner of twitter.

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This one is really resonating with y'all. Bless you, academic twitter.

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Live footage of academics across the country today and tomorrow coming back to their email inboxes, course syllabi, and to-do lists.

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Productivity Protip: Do not just put "write book" on your to do list. 😂

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2 years

Book. Under. Review. 🎉🎉🎉 May the (reviewer) gods be kind.

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Had all kinds of feels waking up this morning and seeing @devah_pager 's name in print again at ASR. But very happy that some of her final work, on the relief of court debt, is out in the world. Congrats to Rebecca Goldstein, @helencyho , and @WesternBruce .

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Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment - Devah Pager,...

Court-related fines and fees are widely levied on criminal defendants who are frequently poor and have little capacity to pay. Such financial obligations may pr...

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For all the shit talked about peer review, it is a lovely thing when a colleague generously gives their time to dive deep into your work and their reflections help you to better articulate the argument underneath your writing all along.

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If you listen carefully enough, you can just start to make out the sound of academics' heartbeats speeding up as they realize the summer is >=1/2 way over.

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The phrasing "Officer Whose Bullet Killed" is a real choice.

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I got some really exciting professional news today and it hit me (again) how much I miss Devah. I wish I could call her and tell her it's all her fault. 💔

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This is not a drill. We've got a cover and the first blurb! 💜 The Minneapolis Reckoning will be in your hands by May. And I'm hoping to set up some talks in the community this spring/summer at at other U's in the fall so please reach out!

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The Minneapolis Reckoning

Challenges to racialized policing, from early reform efforts to BLM protests and the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder

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It's finally here! (And large! It's possible I over wrote.) Looking forward to sharing the book with you all.

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I'm tempted to use this quote (from interviews with Minneapolis residents on police violence) as the subtitle for basically every paper I'll ever write: "I mean it's fucked up but, uh, you know, we live in America.”

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Cruel truth: there is an inverse relationship between how much you read and how novel your ideas seem.

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I am very grateful to be on sabbatical this term and not having to juggle the shift to online classes. Here's my small offer to colleagues to help: if you need guest speakers for your online class, I'd be happy to hop online and join you if topic overlaps w/ my expertise.*

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Congratulations, you all have finally broken my twitter notifications. Honestly, it's not even one of my better jokes. Twitter is a strange, strange beast. 😂

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My 3 y/o jut signed us off a zoom seminar by blowing a kiss to the speaker and I'd like to just go ahead and end Fall 2021 on that high note. 😂

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I spent the last 4 years studying community perceptions of the MPD. Over the weekend I wrote up my thoughts on policing 101, what's happened in Minneapolis, and what comes next.

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dismantling the minneapolis police department

Over the past 4 years, I’ve studied community perceptions of the Minneapolis Police Department. With a team of students, we conducted qualitative interviews with over 100 residents and 20 leaders o…

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This. 👇 . Devah was the most committed and engaged advisor I could have had for grad school. The hole she leaves is massive. And the best we can do is continue her legacy in our work and hold her family and friends in our hearts.

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Devah Pager was an intellectual giant. A beautifully doting mother. Maybe the biggest heart I’ve known my entire career. She died last night and I will miss her for the rest of my life.

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Writing is hard for lots of reasons. One is that part of what you're doing is saying on paper the things that are "obvious" to you by the time you're deep in a project. And its hard to describe the air we breathe.

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Super excited to find @tonykcheng 's new book in my mailbox 🎉🎉🎉 Cheng shows how the NYPD cultivated public input, distorting the vision of democratic policing. It's a super important read for people interested not just the police, but local politics and governance more broadly.

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9am: Let me just answer a few emails. 11:30am: What the hell just happened to my morning?!

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Nodders in classes/talks are HEROS. It is unnerving to lecture to a blank screen. Bonus points if you chuckle at bad jokes.

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My professor teaching to class on zoom: 🧑🏻‍🏫 Me, trying to prevent my professor from teaching into the void: ◼️◼️◼️🙂◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️ ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️

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By popular demand (well, like 2 of you), my insane yearly/semester/monthly/weekly/daily goals, planning, and hours log spreadsheet system now has it's very own webpage. Please share/use!

I developed this template for tracking project goals and managing time commitments that you're welcome to borrow and adapt. These spreadsheets developed over time -- they saved me in graduate school...

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Very happy to see in print my last pub of 2021 at AJS with @AmJSoc + @ChrisERobertson . We look at attitudes about police and policing reform/transformation/abolition among Black and white residents of North Minneapolis in 2017-2019.

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Today, for no particular reason, a reminder/call to profs: UG and grad students are not your "friends"! They are not your drinking buddies! Mentor them; get sloppy w/ ppl whose careers you do not have power over. This is true regardless of your age and/or age gap w/ students.

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Just walked past my poor polisci husband, trying desperately to work, typing out "What is the role of the media?" in a powerpoint slide.

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In 8 years of teaching, I've never had so many students in Soc Perspectives on the Crim Just System end the class by saying it had convinced them to embrace abolition. 2020 has been A YEAR but wow if folks haven't moved the CJ conversation.

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It seemed like bad luck to post on April Fools day, but look what arrived at my office yesterday! 👀

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I know as an academic at an R1, I'm supposed to be VERY ANNOYED when people ask if I "have the summers off?" But, honestly, summer is so, so great. The sun is out, I can skip the commute, nights & weekends are free, etc. I wish all of you with the "summer off" some real R&R.

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Air BnB Host: "So are you on holiday?" Me: "No, on a writing retreat to make progress on a book." Host: "Oh! Your first?" Me: "No, my second. But it's, uh, an academic book, not like a popular book." Host: "Hey, somebody's got to do it!" 😂

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New paper 🧵! We look at the images in media coverage of the killing of Michael Brown & the Ferguson protests, from the Root and HuffPo to Fox News and Breitbart. We find that while there were many similar *types* of images used, the tone varied a lot

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I started working on this project with @MichelleSPhelps in 2018. I can't describe how thrilled I am to finally see this paper published today.

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TFW you check your calendar for tomorrow and have ZERO zoom meetings.

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5 years

After 6 years of a Ph.D. and 6 years tenure-track, it feels deeply weird that thing I can do to best help a global disaster is 4 y/o & 2 y/o at home, indefinitely. But here we are. Week 3 (of N), y'all. We got this.

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Conferences, most recently #LSADC19 , always remind me of a truism in #academia : You are as smart as the people you get feedback from. No one's work emerges perfectly in isolation. The key is finding friend/mentors who will read your shit and show you what you can't see.

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5 years

I decided I needed a post-tenure hobby so I signed up for a class on how to use my fancy camera. I am INORDINATELY AMUSED by this portrait session I did with Alfie, our smallest dinosaur. I'm basically a professional now, right?

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Week 5 of #pandemicparenting w/ 2 under 5 at home is a wrap! For those of you wondering how "work-life balance" (😂) is going, kids zoombombed each and every video call of the week and my husband's students' all hear me scary-scream "GET ON THE POTTY, NOWWW!!!"

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For those of you excited to read about *anything but the impeachment* I've got a new @AnnualReviews of Criminology (online version only -- uncorrected proofs) on #massprobation . This one is in honor of the path-breaking #JoanPetersilia . (A thread)

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This semester started with the armed insurrection at the capital and is ending with the military occupation of my city.

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so meta

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Prepping for my first book talk for #TheMinneapolisReckoning and I'm overly proud to report I've matched my slides to the book cover design scheme. 🎉

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Spent all night paying respects at #GeorgeFloyd 's memorial and on the phone with reporters talking about police reform and Minneapolis. Came back to twitter to read the 3rd precinct is on fire, a woman was possibly abducted across the street, and armed white men are roving. 💔

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Who are these teachers assigning high school and undergrad students to go interview professors to write class papers?! Why is this better for anyone than having them just read your articles/books and write their own review?

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So we doing a The Chair viewing party or what?

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True story time. The day I woke up after almost dying (from weird/rare pregnancy complications), I felt FANTASTIC and ready to take on anything. You know why? It wasn't b/c I was in good shape. It was b/c I was super duper high.

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I don't know how anyone looks at the Tesla symbol and sees anything other than an IUD.

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Soc Departments: what are we doing to support Black students right now? Our students need us to respond.

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@UMNSociology the silence, the lack of checking in, the no communication, or any inquiry, or offering of support from the department to its students -- especially its Black students. Is very loud and disappointing.

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I don't wanna brag (flex?), but I wrote a whole paragraph before opening this bird site and would like a cookie.

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I see Minneapolis Police Department is trending again. We did not abolish, end, or defund the police. The council votes to get a ballot amendment approved that would replace MPD in charter with a Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention (which would inc. police).

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This week's academic appreciation thread is for @mathuclair 's new Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. It's an exceptional multi-method qualitative study of how privilege/disadvantage shapes court process.

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Privilege and Punishment

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

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My husband just apologized for accidentally saying "parole" when he meant "probation" and I feel so seen. 🤣

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The real challenge of the dissertation defense is not getting 4+ professors to agree on your thesis, but finding a time where all of you can be in a room together.

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Do you know what day it is? It's manuscript submission day!

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I'm pleased to let you all know that the interview I conducted in 2017 is now fully transcribed. 🤔😂

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My 4 year old just told us he built a "jail for bad guys." 😕 😭

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And all of that said, the market is random AF. A lot depends on what areas depts are hiring in (which in turn depends often on UG interests in classes + who is retiring/leaving). (Or, you know, a global pandemic.) It's not just about you, how hard you work, etc.

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Interview quote of the day, from ~2018. A Black man in his 50s from North Minneapolis: "There are 3 legal standards -- your standards for whites, your standards for people of color, and then there is police standards.”

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I'm so grateful for thoughtful blurbs from @elizabhinton , Pat Sharkey, @monicacbell , and @victorerikray -- all scholars I admire deeply! Sign up at the link below to get pub notices and lmk if you want me to come chat about the book in a workshop or class. 💜

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This is not a drill. We've got a cover and the first blurb! 💜 The Minneapolis Reckoning will be in your hands by May. And I'm hoping to set up some talks in the community this spring/summer at at other U's in the fall so please reach out!

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This is the hill I will twitter-die on: academics, when announcing 😍 PROFESSIONAL news (which you should do!), stop saying "some personal news". Personal news = new babies, a great shoe find, delicious lunch. Professional news = new paper, promotion, new gig.

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They say grief comes in waves. Today my first (co-)advisee defends her dissertation and I'm so proud/excited!, but I'm also just really sad Devah is no longer here.

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Hey sociologists, the @SocCrimeLawDev section of @ASAnews is offering FREE student memberships for the section in 2024 to a limited number of NEW section members. If you're interested, this is your chance to join! Signup: by Dec. 13th. (Please RT!)

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You guys, I went through my email to figure out what in the world to say about mentor extraordinaire @devah_pager and found the very first email I ever sent. It starts with "Hello Ms. Pager" [CRINGE -- undergrads, DO NOT DO THIS!] and ends w/ me fwd'ing the msg to my mother. :[

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@MichelleSPhelps

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Such an honor to be on this list, together with my terrific coauthors Amber Joy Powell and Chris Robertson. And to have our work sharing the love with @reubenjmiller 's spectacular book is something else. 💜

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Amer Soc of Crim

1 year

Congrats to the ASC 2023 Summer Award Recipients. Check out their photos and bios on our website Page is updated as they are submitted, check back often.

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2 years

I don't think I ever realized as a grad student how very happy it would make me to see undergrad students launch into the world, but I've got 2 former RAs going to Harvard Law and a Fulbright, respectively, and I'm just brimming with 🥳🥳🥳 for them

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

6 years

Email is to academics what laundry is to parents.

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@MichelleSPhelps

6 years

9am: Let me just answer a few emails. 11:30am: What the hell just happened to my morning?!

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

4 years

I have never gotten such a steady stream of review requests from academic journals. It's ... something. Do not envy editors right now.

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@MichelleSPhelps

6 years

There have been some threads here recently about #academia , parenthood, & gaps on your CV that have been great, but didn't reflect my experiences on the trade-offs -- and I worry will make those wanting kids + academic careers even more anxious. So, a thread!

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

6 years

@tressiemcphd In my evals: "It was very uncool and unprofessional for Prof. Phelps to criticize the police dog. She was co cute!"

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@MichelleSPhelps

5 months

It's book pub day, y'all. 💜

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

4 years

One thing no one prepares you for in parenthood is how truly *excited* you will be when your 2 y/o shits in the potty.

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@MichelleSPhelps

3 years

New paper out w/ @AmJSoc in LSR. We argue that police fail to protect women of color from neighborhood and gender-based violence, while simultaneously targeting them and their families. This one has been in the works for years and I'm so glad to see it out in the world!

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

3 years

Relatedly, since this is blowing up, if STATA could just treat missing data like... IDK, like MISSING DATA, that would make my life a lot easier.

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

5 years

My 4 y/o is home sick today and playing "cooking" while I work from home. He just brought me a (pretend) glass of wine, so I feel like we're off to a good start.

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@MichelleSPhelps

4 years

My U just encouraged faculty to show up for small group meetings with honors students on zoom by offering to mail us a *mini pie* and, tbh, I am here for it.

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

4 years

@jw_lockhart Real footnote from a paper I published (I could NOT stand to delete it, but I did move out of the main text): "In one of the stranger examples, a newsletter article focused on an ‘attack goat’ two field agents faced while trying to track down an absconded probationer."

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@MichelleSPhelps

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So the book is now 110k+ words and fully drafted (except back half of the conclusion) and I think I'm finally *starting* to figure out how to say what it's actually about. 😂🥳 #writingishard

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

5 years

As my medicine and public health friends keep telling me, there is no criminal justice reform w/o health equity. Health policy *is* criminal justice policy (and cj policy is health policy in the US). @DrShlafer , @tylerwinkelman , @RRHDr

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Prison Policy Initiative

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Our new report shows that counties are trying to jail their way out of a public health crisis, throwing their most vulnerable residents in jail over and over again:

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Michelle Phelps

@MichelleSPhelps

4 years

Advisees' defenses now make me miss my advisor. We miss you, Devah. If there is an afterlife, I hope you can just fast forward thru 2020. 💔

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@MichelleSPhelps

3 years

This randomness SUCKS. But it's a structural problem. You can't fix it. The process sucks less if you can internalize that, do your work AND live life in grad school as best you can, and think about diff kinds of careers where you would be able to use your talents w/ purpose.

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@MichelleSPhelps

6 years

Where on the grant report do we put the two adorable babies produced & kept alive by the PI's in our year 1 report? Can we attach photos?

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@MichelleSPhelps

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Happy to report a new paper out at @TheoreticalCrim with co-author @EricSeligman ! Drawing on interviews with adults on probation, we ask how people on supervision think about the threat of prob violation + what that means for visions of legal change

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Probation and the shadow carceral state: Legal envisioning from Minnesota - Michelle S. Phelps,...

The transformation of US punishment in the late 20th century was defined not just by mass imprisonment, but the growth of a shadow carceral state of administrat...

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