PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR W/TENURE!
i won't say it's a weird time to announce this bc I realize there have been many crazy and unfortunate things happening lately, both in the world, and my own personal and professional life but ...
"We have spent ten months watching our people die every day," says Palestinian American sociologist
@emanabdelhadi
, who is in Chicago protesting against Israel's assault on Gaza.
Been sitting on this news for a minute but I'm thrilled to announce I'll be a fellow at
@CASBSStanford
for 2022-2023!! I'll be working on my next book, Suspect Citizenship, an ethnographic study of anti-racist mobilization and activism against state violence in France
Shoutout to the UCSB librarian who told me I was giving him “attitude” when I calmly responded multiple times that I was indeed a tenure line faculty member as I tried to check out items this afternoon 🙃
Respectfully, I get the sentiment from where this advice comes, but honestly, you have to be able to look yourself in the mirror each morning, tenure or not. As Lorde reminds us, your silence will not protect you. Ppl don't act after tenure if they didn't before.
1) On TT - Be the fuzzy bunny nobody wants to kick - advice my academic big sister gave me when I started on TT. These people will be voting on your future. You can be the game changer after you get tenure.
some news: I'm excited to announce that I'm leaving Purdue and joining the faculty at UC-Santa Barbara this fall. my time at Purdue has been "challenging" and I'm excited for what's next, including working with new colleagues
@hwinant
,
@tristanbphd
,
@zakiyaluna
, and others!!
i recently saw a TT job opening that evoked George Floyd's murder as a reason for hiring 'diverse' faculty and something abt that really doesn't sit well w/me 🙃😒
i feel very blessed and happy to be
@ucsantabarbara
!! thank you to all the amazing ppl who've been there for me and supported me in immeasurable ways. i can only hope to pay that generosity forward ...
So sad to share that one of my favorite department colleagues and an amazing sociologist of comparative race and ethnicity, Reg Daniel, passed away suddenly this week. Reg was always kind and supportive of me, from my interview at UCSB. It felt incredible having him in my corner.
We thank
@ucsantabarbara
for two of our 2022-23 fellows. One is Jean Beaman. So cool that she'll be advancing two book projects as a member of the CASBS community this year!
More on Jean and her projects:
@jean23bean
Congrats to
@DerronWallace
for the publication of his book, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth! So great to celebrate w/you 🙂🥳
#ASA2023
Sure, C-Hebdo has every right to publish its attempts at satire. And I have the right to conclude that a magazine that considers black people being suffocated to death a joke, sees racism as a currency it can monetize from a readership which is tolerant of & titillated by racism
On my way to Baltimore to see family after an excellent and exhausting
#ASA2023
So great to see so many wonderful ppl and presentations (and only a few not so wonderful ppl and presentations 🤣)
WELCOME VIRGO SEASON! ORGANIZE! ANALYZE! HAVE A REMEDY FOR EVERYTHING! SPREADSHEETS! SHARPENED PENCILS! BE “HELPFUL” ESP WHEN NO ONE ASKED FOR YOUR ADVICE! FEEL BOTH SMARTER THAN AND NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR! FORGET THE BIG PICTURE! FIXATE ON THE FLAWS! WORK! LIFE IS SHORT HAVE FUN!
Excited to be a part of this special issue on Whiteness and Nationalism in
@IDjnl
: Are French people white?: Towards an understanding of whiteness in Republican France
THIS: "It's this strange thing about the institution actively recruiting … marginalized scholars of color, with the expectation that they will help to reform an institution that has no actual interest in changing,”
In the form of white privilege, ‘colour-blindness’ and supremacy, how does whiteness shape individual lives and European societies alike?
Join us on 15 March for our online panel with
@jean23bean
@NeemaBegum
&
@theodavid
ℹ️
this week I did 2 bureaucratic tasks I had procrastinated for months that both took way less time and effort than I anticipated. I will learn nothing from this 🙃🤣
As someone who has spent years conducting fieldwork in Nanterre and similar communities, what is happening now in France is both sad and unsurprising. Per usual
@RokhayaDiallo
has one of the best takes on what's happening ...
Racism in France covered in the Wall Street Journal, wow: The global ripple of outrage over the killing of George Floyd is testing a bastion of Western liberalism: the French republic via
@WSJ
RE-ECOUTE
"Les 'discriminations raciales systémiques' sont-elles enracinées en France ?"
Réécoutez notre débat avec le philosophe Norman Ajari, la sociologue Jean Beaman, l’historienne Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci & Frédéric Potier de la Dilcrah.
So thrilled to finally meet
@NimishaBarton
in person! Thanks for such engaging and thoughtful remarks in today’s Sawyer Seminar on Race, Precarity, and Privilege in France!
A panel of Harvard professors concluded that Lorgia García Peña, a beloved Latinx-studies professor, was a victim of discrimination. When they strongly recommended that her case be reviewed, Harvard refused.
"Minority populations are responding to a violence that is not new, but rather an extension of the violence of French colonialism. The quarantine period reveals how some individuals, even those who are citizens, are forever seen as suspicious."
@jean23bean
Next Friday (11/20) at 3 pm: Join our immigration seminar with Professor Jean Beaman of
@ucsantabarbara
on “Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France.” Register at
Passed my viva with no corrections this morning! So deeply grateful to my examiners
@AcademicDiary
and
@jean23bean
for their deep, thoughtful and caring engagement with my work, and as ever to
@alim1213
for his support!
Today (October 27) is the 15th yr anniversary of the deaths of Zyed et Bouna who were killed while fleeing the police in Clichy-sous-Bois, a Parisian banlieue. These deaths, for which there was never justice, led to uprisings throughout France for 3 weeks.
Congrats to one of my brilliant students, Michael Nishimura, on the publication of his article in
@socprobsjournal
🥳!!! Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers
@BaggieJohn
Monday 12th we are sponsoring the reception of the Section on International Migration. The team will also be there if you want to come by and chat!