✨NEW PUB ALERT✨
Honored to share this work and introduce the concept of "Indigenous Placemaking" to show how place functions as a relative, teacher, memoryscape, and system of reciprocal relations.
Place is not a backdrop upon which social life unfolds; it is who we are. 1/3
My baby is off to the Ivy League!🎉
Someday, I'll share our journey as a young/poor family in the academy and how often I was told to quit bc future profs don't have babies at 22. But today let's celebrate my incredible kid for rising above it all and inspiring me to do the same!
Sharing this important collab on race/indigeneity with
@native4data
in the brand new Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology! Each chapter brings something fresh and understudied in the sociological tradition. Honored to be an important part of this text with
@thkukutai
and crew!
🎉 SHARING HAPPY NEWS - I’m joining the rockstar
@uw_sociology
dept this fall! So happy to bring my work on race, law, policing, and sovereignty to the
@UW
community. I’m thankful to be making this move with the love and mentorship of my
@virginia_tech
and
@CornellSoc
colleagues!
✨🎉Friends, I'm so very humbled to share that I'm the recipient of the 2022
@ASA_SREM
Distinguished Early Career Award!! Not sure how to process this distinction bc I wasn't aware of my nom. But I'm so grateful to the many
@ASAnews
folks who invest in me and others. Onward! 😭😭
Settler-colonial nation building relies on child removal and the destabilization of tribes. Death camps parading as schools? This is strategic. This is genocide. Current foster/adoption rates show that this violence is ongoing. What are you going to do about it now that you know?
🎉🎉It's my 3 YEAR diss-aversary and I'm EXCITED TO SHARE that my Syracuse ethnography is under contract with THE
@ucpress
!!! In "Transactional Policing" I show how labor law shapes the problematic policing/community refusal in that viral video and why that matters for all of us.
Good morning from Seattle and
@uw_sociology
! I made it safely and I’m eager to get settled into my new position. Next up is moving my books and plant babies into this bright, welcoming office space. So happy to be here in community with such amazing colleagues and students! 💜💛
🎉🎉It took me a month to process, but my first diss article on race/policing was accepted for publication at Criminology! To the editors, reviewers, advisors, colleagues, and the Syracuse, NY community for teaching me so much, THANK YOU. I'm carrying your energy into the book!🙏🏽
In a 7-2
#SCOTUS
decision, the Indian Child Welfare Act stands! Read about this huge win for Native families, nations, and the future of tribal sovereignty. A future in which we will continue to love and fight for our babies with full hearts
#ProtectICWA
JOIN US IN BEAUTIFUL SEATTLE! 🌸
We have 5 new TT positions — 3
@uw_sociology
and 2 in Law, Societies & Justice. Looking forward to welcoming folks to our crew of high-impact, community-engaged scholars. I’m on the LSJ search and happy to talk values, culture, etc. across depts.
🎉🎉🎉 THIS IS HUGE!! Our research on tribal sovereignty and Native family separation received a Reducing Inequality Research Grant from the
@wtgrantfdn
!!!
@frankalready
and I are so grateful to everyone for supporting our commitment to use our training to serve tribes/families!!
🎉🎉 JUST OUT! Using education/law as context, I show that racialized orgs are embedded in institutional fields and operate within a larger settler-colonial project that Sociology must confront. Thankful for everyone’s support to widen our analytical lens!
WHAT?! 🤩
@tweetastewart
and I combined our research agendas to offer an empirical analysis of university land acknowledgments and their relationship to Indigenous dispossession. That labor of love has now been accepted at
@AERA_EdResearch
! We can’t wait to share it with you!
I had lunch with a scholar in another dept yesterday. As we left she shared, "I've heard so many lovely things about you and didn't think it could all be true. But it is. You're brilliant and generous and this time was so refreshing." Let's build a diff kind of academia already.
💜🎉💛 New faculty headshot just came in! I’m pretty sure that 3 years on the job has aged me by 10. No matter because I’m still thankful to be asking big questions with amazing colleagues and leaving every place better than I found it.
🎉 NEW PUB ALERT, “Social-Distancing the Settler-State”!!! Please read, cite, and share. I’m happy to send folks a PDF copy and will link below where you can find the whole collection, “Social Problems in the Age of COVID-19.”
#SocTwitter
#NativeTwitter
#PublicSociology
✨SUPER EXCITED✨to share that I accepted a
@NotreDameIAS
faculty fellowship! I'll join a brilliant cohort and
@NotreDame
's new Initiative on Race/Resilience to work on my
#TransactionalPolicing
book exploring local resistance to police violence.
South Bend folks, let's connect!
The address to the one on Roosevelt is 1011 S Delano Ct, Chicago, IL 60605 and you know where the on on 87th is at. It's all day but the later it gets the more ppl talk about it the more seats get filled but yea Come to the one at 3 I'm good at surprises and stuff
#MarshallMovie
🎉🎉NEW PUB ALERT with
@frankalready
at
@ColumJRaceL
! We explicitly name the settler desire to break up Native families and argue that this violent legacy lives on through contemp foster/adoption/other data measures. Please read, cite, share, and mobilize!
The sun came out and so did the cherry blossoms!!! So grateful that all of us at
@uw_sociology
get to call this beautiful historic quad our home
@UWArtSci
! 😍🌸🤩🌸😍
So bittersweet to clean out my
@virginia_tech
Sociology office at the crack of dawn today! I’ll be forever grateful for my warm and welcoming colleagues/students here. I can’t wait to continue my work on race, policing, law, tribal sovereignty, and indigeneity at
@uw_sociology
!!
Incredibly humbled to have “Sovereignty for Sale? Tribal Patent Shelters and the Risky Business of Sovereign Derivatives” published as the lead article in NAIS, my fave journal! This hybrid NAIS-Law-Soc piece examines the commodification of tribal sov immunity by global pharma...
Just hit SUBMIT on a race/policing paper that I'm really proud of! Super thankful to my Sociology friends who helped me get here. I came to the discipline after being fully trained in EthnicStudies/IndigenousStudies/Law. Their support in disciplinary translation is a gamechanger!
WE WON THE RESEARCH GRANT!! Thank you for supporting us and our Baltimore project! As we plan,
@CoreyMiles__
and I would appreciate any tips/advice re: 1) training UGs on fieldwork/qual methods 2) coordinating student workgroups online (C's
@MorganStateU
and mine
@virginia_tech
).
Just hit submit on a 🔥🔥 research proposal with the brilliant, Dr.
@CoreyMiles__
!! Despite all the ways in which these institutions weren't meant for us, it's truly an honor to disrupt that exclusion and work with friends on projects that center BIPOC youth in the soc sciences.
Celebrating two new R&Rs on policing projects right now thanks to my fantastic friends who show up and make me celebrate every win big and small!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
Writing a recommendation letter and looking for tips to promote your student *and* avoid gender bias in the process? Keep it professional and lead with the pubs and research for everyone!
NEW POLICING PUB⚡️
As attention to police violence grows, the civ legal support for residents they harm stagnates, illustrating what I call a legal mirage—a knowable legal process exists to pursue your rights, but a variety of structural/human/$ barriers make it unreachable. 1/7
With THE Eve Tuck AND Wayne Yang!? 🤩 I’m so humbled to join everyone selected for their
@wtgrantfdn
Fellowship: “Theories of Blackness, Indigeneity + Racialization in Research to Reduce Inequality...” HUGE thanks to
@AnnaRHaskins
and David Takeuchi for encouraging me to apply!!
✨It’s my birthday! I woke up to an article rejection (not “generalist enough," darn) AND our
@aerj_journal
article online! Please read, share, and send feedback. This one took years and we’re in deep with follow-up analysis
@tweetastewart
.
Academics, often the best response we can offer to scholarly presentations outside our lane is: "Thank you for sharing your work with us. I'm new to this topic, but I'm very interested in X. Can you tell me more about that and its relationship to Y?"
STOP PATRONIZING COLLEAGUES
I found a beautiful space to finalize my faculty search committee work. It’s demanding but also an honor to read, and really try to see/feel, the incredible research, teaching, and service that folks are doing. Bit by bit, helping to create more just futures. Mil gracias.
When students enjoy my classes and/or take their soc training into law/policy, someone always says "you're a naturally gifted teacher."
NO, I've put in time/training to get here, as a fully certified high school teacher AND a lawyer that earned prestigious awards in both. Next.
🍀 Seattle work is done and I'm officially on the road to
@NotreDame
! Excited to be a 2022-2023 Faculty Fellow at the
@NDIAS
and the Initiative on Race/Resilience.
--
Sad to miss amazing folks at
#ASA2022
@IPNN_ASA
@ASA_SREM
@SocLawSection
...but counting down the days til Philly!
I'm excited to serve as Chair-Elect of the Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Section
@IPNN_ASA
and Council Member for the Sociology of Law Section
@SocLawSection
. Thank you to everyone for your support!! (I'll pass on noms for more service though so I can focus on both.) ☺️🙏🏼
Might be offbeat to say, but I’m grateful to be a TT faculty member in a dept that believes in leaving the world better than we found it. This is especially true among faculty less invested in making “a name for ourselves” than we are in giving away our skills to help others. 🫶🏼
Friends
@SREJournal
@ASAnews
has a new podcast out on my paper about anti-Indigenous racism! I explain my motivation, how
@victorerikray
's work and others made it happen, and my land acknowledgment spinoff with my bestie
@tweetastewart
that's under review!
Sending a huge THANK YOU to
@USCSociology
for inviting me to share my book project! I've given a version of this talk only once before, and wow, USC questions are generative, insightful, and nonstop. I'll carry folks' enthusiasm for the work with me into the next book chapter! 🙏🏽
Friends, I’m writing an ethnographic book on race, inequality, and police labor/employment! THANK YOU to
@YaleSoc
@CERSI_Yale
@Prof_GraceKao
for inviting me to share the project for the very first time. Folks were enthusiastic, asked great Qs and hyped me up for the work to come!
Submitted a draft of my ethnographic book prop on the political economy of policing! Learning to celebrate publicly. Not my style but couldn't have done it w/out
@tonykcheng
@collinwmueller
who hype my args re: how police budgets are in and of themselves a form of state violence!
JOIN US IN BEAUTIFUL SEATTLE! 🌸 We have 2 TT positions in the
@UWArtSci
Law, Societies & Justice Department. I’m on the search committee and happy to talk values, culture, etc. PLEASE SHARE! Applications received by September 17 are guaranteed full consideration.
Made it Montreal for
#ASA2024
@ASAnews
!! Taking in a long lovely walk before heading out to join my brilliant colleagues at
@ABSociologists
. I’m grateful for everything they are and do and their endless support of
@IPNN_ASA
. 💜
Few colleagues = dear friends. If you find them: compliment/hype regularly, share constructive critique by investing in their research/writing, and make plain what the job tries to hide. If you can't do that, reflect on why and decide whether you're truly lifting while you climb.
🎉🎉 NEW LAW/SOC/NAIS PUB SHARE: Police violence against Native Peoples, and tribal intervention on their behalf, rarely make national media. I disrupt that erasure by framing indigeneity as an intersectional identity that jeopardizes settler claims to territorial sovereignty.
This work is for my relatives so it's humbling to see this
@law_soc
award. We
@frankalready
show that the CW system displaces/erases Native and non-white families that resist the settler project and argue in favor of ICWA's protections for Native tribes.
How long should a cover letter (for a sociology job) be for junior faculty and ABDs?
I've been told 2 pages but keep editing 3-4 pagers for friends. Senior colleagues, I get that folks will say that there are no hard and fast rules, but what's your best bet?
#SocTwitter
The idea that "armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street” is quite literally U.S. history, domestic and abroad. Let's keep telling the truth. They're not surprised, I promise you.
I always feel guilty about interrupting people's busy lives when I want to reach out for help. So I don't, and instead, I keep trying to figure out papers, projects, and applications by myself. Please tell me to stop doing this!
#SocTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
Celebrating 2 years since defending my diss on police labor/employment as a fundamental mechanism of inequality + routine degradation in Black/Brown lives! 2021 grads, I've grown so much in that time and YOU WILL TOO. Your 💜, research, confidence, clarity, all of it. Keep going!
Who is setting up the Zoom link to debrief Dr. Aldon Morris' 🔥🔥🔥 Presidential Address?! He came with it all; my teen even sat down to listen. "Sociology must decide if we are a science of emancipation or whether we will continue to pretend to be an aloof and detached science"
I'd love to join a law & society and/or law & sociology writing group. Ideally one that meets every two weeks with the goal of advancing one paper, chapter, funding application each at a time. Does such a group already exist? If it doesn't, are others interested in creating one?
🎉🧵JUST OUT!! While 43% of Americans favor CRBs investigating/disciplining cops, this rarely happens. Why? My findings refuse the CRB ineffectiveness story and show how they’re MADE toothless by the police legitimacy regimes that surround/suffocate them.
Just hit submit on a 🔥🔥 research proposal with the brilliant, Dr.
@CoreyMiles__
!! Despite all the ways in which these institutions weren't meant for us, it's truly an honor to disrupt that exclusion and work with friends on projects that center BIPOC youth in the soc sciences.
I just want to say that I'm very happy for colleagues that are making moves to preserve their sanity, family, integrity, and more. Everyone will have opinions, regardless of what you do. In the end, choose YOU without regret!💫
I won't ever dictate what scholars should/n't study. But I will firmly say that we don’t need to write about every damn thing that interests us. ESPECIALLY when the very premise of our RQ is anti-Black and dehumanizing and our study reifies the violence we attempt to illuminate.
Huge thanks to my new
@UWArtSci
@uw_sociology
colleagues for showing me around their neighborhoods so I can find the right apartment!! Everyone is so kind and welcoming...and I’m 500% obsessed with these city views!! 😍🤯🤭
All families deserve to lead safe and healthy lives. Grateful for this opportunity to keep reducing and dismantling the inequalities that prevent that. Sending a huge thank you to my new
@RWJF
@SSNScholars
family for stitching our worlds together in this good way!
⚕️📢We're excited to announce the 2023-24 cohort of the Health Equity Scholars Program! In collaboration with
@RWJF
, we're kicking off a year of support for 18 early-career scholars conducting research on social determinants of health.
Meet the cohort:
Exciting news! Thanks to
@contextsmag
and
@TheSocietyPages
, a concept that
@cfresssh
and I started back in graduate school is now out in the world. We would love to hear your thoughts on Structured Discomfort and how you engage it in your classroom:
Every day there are people meeting up on this bench outside my
@uw_sociology
window and it is the cutest thing ever! They always look so happy to see one another. 😍
…and PS the cherry blossom buds are starting to look a little more developed each day!! 🤩🌸
Very sad that I can’t attend
@law_soc
, engage with scholars I admire, present my paper, and receive my article award. The truth is that it’s too damn expensive for me as a first gen Prof-Mama. My sweet girl and her friend posted words of affirmation on my door today tho!
#LSA2022
💫 NEW WORK: Is the Soc classroom the right place to teach and learn abolition?
YES it absolutely is! And I’m so grateful for my 2020
@VtSoc
@VT_LiberalArts
Race and Policing students/GTAs who put in tons of legwork and thrived with their cmmty partners!
What would a vibrant sociology of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity program look like? What faculty specializations are a must? What undergrad coursework would we include, and how would we scaffold non-western worldviews, settler colonialism, racial cap, etc across time and place?
I want to see ALL of my friends win. Plain and simple. I'll never understand why folks hide and hoard. There is more than enough goodness in the world to go around.
#SocTwitter
do we have a BIPOC group chat for assistant professors? If not, is there interest or one in the works? I can think of 15+ of us that want to invest in that space and share resources/hype. There is an excellent group for grads that helped us find each other years ago.
Join us in beautiful Seattle! We're VERY excited to welcome a new colleague to
@uw_sociology
(senior line, open area) and would love to see your name in the mix.
Please reach out with ?s about our dept, city, home on the cherry blossom quad, you name it!
First fellowship talk down! Thank you to the
@NotreDame
@NotreDameIAS
community for engaging in my book project’s big ideas with such care and enthusiasm. Next up is a book chapter talk!
In Seattle for a moment to spend time with my fantastic campus colleagues. And oh wow I’ve missed this morning view from my office at
@uw_sociology
! Pretty soon these branches will be filled with cherry blossoms. Can’t wait!
#SocTwitter
friends, do you know anyone studying race and policing in mid-size cities?
@demarlewisiv
and I both do this work and would love to connect with folks doing the same, especially in the West, Southwest, and Mountain West. Please share and tag your people!
#SocAF
Whenever folks on the market (or eyeing the market) ask me about prestige or rank, I talk about how having colleagues you respect, appreciate, and truly enjoy is invaluable! I know that this isn't always a choice. Just reiterating that it matters. A lot.
What a great
@asanews
in Montreal! I connected with so many of you and couldn’t be happier about how stunning the Joint Reception
@IPNN_ASA
@RaceGenderClass
@AsaSexualities
turned out. To all who attended and made this event so wonderful, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!
My new personal joy is sending out
@ASAnews
#ASA2022
conference paper acceptances!! Our Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Section
@IPNN_ASA
is vibrant, brilliant, and shaking up the discipline!! 🤩🎉
Hey Seattle! Happy to be back in town while
@NotreDame
enjoys fall break. Spent the day hiking up Tahoma (Mount Rainier) before
@uw_sociology
welcomes Ann Morning to campus tomorrow…two greats in 24 hours! 🏔💜
Thankful for the quick trip up to White Sands National Park after my time at UTEP! My teenager insisted this photo was a good idea. I wasn’t sure but the look on his face was priceless when I agreed. 10/10 recommend. 💫
Another exciting co-authored project in the books at
@law_soc
!! HUGE THANK YOU to
@demarlewisiv
and
@rahimkurwa
for saying yes to this work and so thoughtfully cultivating a DuBoisian analysis of policing with me.
I’m an
@ASAnews
member and wholeheartedly support
@Soc4Pal
's Resolution. I stand against genocide and oppression in all forms. I expect my professional association, one who is “beginning the process of working to dismantle ongoing legacies of settler colonialism” to do the same.
Come join us at
@UW
in beautiful Seattle! The Summer Institute in Indigenous Humanities is recruiting students and community partners for three weeks to design a research project of your choice. Stipends provided!
Apply here and please share widely:
Thanks to my
@ASAnews
@IPNN_ASA
folks who came out for my talk on what Indigenous relationality and land-based epistemologies can teach us about being in be in right relations with the flourishing and self-determination of others.
My solidarity with Palestine is an obv example.
I'm honored to serve as the
#ASA2022
Regular Session Organizer for the Indigenous Peoples & Native Nations Section of
@ASAnews
#SocTwitter
. The portal is OPEN and I can't wait to review your exciting new papers. Please share widely and contact me with ?s!
A conditional accept AND a desk reject all in the same day! This job is it a bit like whiplash sometimes but I’m grateful for reviewers that treat the review process like a conversation. They improve OUR work with clear direction and tips on how we might accomplish the edits. 🙌🏼
The autumn sun drenched the quad outside of
@uw_sociology
so perfectly today. I might need to start chronicling the seasons from this beautiful window. 🤩
Was just talking to a grad student and referenced "rollover minutes" to explain my workflow. They gently reminded me that they're 22 and know nothing of my millennial life! 😂😂
A humble research/writing PSA: Not all gaps in the literature need to be filled, often there's a reason a gap exists so pay attention, and filling a gap just to fill it is rarely the best approach to research. Brought to you by the journal articles I'm reviewing. 🫠
Thanks for the birthday wishes, gifts, and now this beautiful wreath delivered to my door! I’m so proud of my 2021 journey. This next month is always a time of quiet reflection as I decide what to carry forward into MY new year and what to leave behind. Wishing you all the same!
We cannot keep living like this. And that's exactly the point. Our babies, mothers, fathers, cousins, and kin are dying bc the state believes we are disposable. We were born into this mourning and it often feels like we'll never know what it's like to live w/o this grief.
In San Diego for
@PacificSocAssoc
and nothing in the world beats being picked up from the airport by my siblings with a beautiful to-go plate of my big sister's frybread before the conference kicks off! 😍
Wrapping up my Notre Dame fellowship is bittersweet. I've made tons of new friends and finished so much of the book. Plus my dear friend
@BlkSocWithQTNA
came to visit before I go and it's been fun to soak in the beauty of this campus together!!
My babies never disappoint! I found this gem in my smallest's backpack pile. This is a study sheet for a test, and I love how she critically "modifies" her assignments to keep it 100!
Our
@wtgrantfdn
grant just posted!
@frankalready
and I link Sociology + Indig Studies to examine how the authority/capacity of tribal govts can be leveraged to protect Native families and disrupt child welfare inequalities. So GRATEFUL for this support!
#SocTwitter
#NativeTwitter
We are proud to announce five new research grants, including four to support studies on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and one to support a study on improving the use of research evidence. Congratulations to our new grantees!
Working through my ASA email and found this!! Thank you, everyone. Happy to serve alongside so many greats as we uplift the field and the lives of those we study. 🙏🏼
So excited to welcome my family to the
@UW
!! 🎉👏🏼
We have a brand new Race AND Racism Speaker Series at
@uw_sociology
and our community couldn’t be happier about kicking it off with
@CoreyMiles__
!
This week, we welcome Prof. Corey Miles
@CoreyMiles__
to speak to us about his work on Black living and the structural experience of Blackness! He is also the inaugural speaker for the new Race and Racism Speaker Series at
@uw_sociology
! We cannot wait!
More amazing news about Dr.
@AlexesHarris
!! I've posted this before, but it's worth sharing 5000 times. Alexes is THE FIRST FACULTY REGENT of the University of Washington
@UW
! She's also a central light in
@uw_sociology
, our uni
@UWAthletics
faculty rep, and 💜 by all in Seattle.
Student, faculty and now
@UW
regent:
@AlexesHarris
, '97, is the first member of the faculty to have a voice on the University's governing body.
#UWMag
We're growing! I'm very excited to welcome Sasha Johfre to
@uw_sociology
and
@UWCSSS
this fall. Sasha's work on the social construction of knowledge and notions of difference and "natural as better" brings so much to our department!
Grad students, BIPOC faculty, junior faculty, and everyone else the academy is trying to erase, please don’t let folks make you feel like a burden when you correct them on your name. Whatever the reason. Our names don't need to be "easy" and aren't open for negotiation!
Can we link with a local vendor to print Sociologists for Palestine
@Soc4Pal
shirts, wear them at ASA and beyond, and donate the funds to families? I’ll only go to Montreal to honor my responsibilities to emerging scholars, allies, and family, not this embarrassing org/statement.
Prof life feels extra overwhelming right now so I’m grateful that my brilliant friend Dan
@dnbrgr
came to hang with me on campus!! So many rad faculty in the UW system. Wish I could’ve taken all their classes as an undergrad! 🌸🎉