Pamela Metz
@pamelametz.bsky.social
Dir of Chapter Development @scholars.org.
Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021)🚢
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Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021)🚢
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Pamela Metz
@pamelametz.bsky.social
· Aug 8
SSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!
Hello Sociology friends! Excited to be in Chicago for #ASA2025 with @scholars.org. Point me to your sessions!
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A must read from @neillewisjr.bsky.social, a scholar and friend I constantly learn from.
1/4. The U.S. continues to be a place where people’s life experiences and outcomes differ dramatically by social positioning. How does that affect the way people make meaning of what is happening around them? Those questions guided this new paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A must read from @neillewisjr.bsky.social, a scholar and friend I constantly learn from.
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My awesome colleague @robglover.bsky.social and his ENACT colleagues just published a how-to guide on teaching civic engagement and advocacy. I can't think of a better person to provide insights on this than Rob. @scholars.org @mainessn.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
ENACTing Change
Explains the ENACT model of student civic engagement, empowers instructors to implement it, and shows them how to assess its impact. ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation ai...
press.uchicago.edu
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My awesome colleague @robglover.bsky.social and his ENACT colleagues just published a how-to guide on teaching civic engagement and advocacy. I can't think of a better person to provide insights on this than Rob. @scholars.org @mainessn.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
TODAY! Looking forward to this Q&A with @robglover.bsky.social et al
ENACT empowers students to be active participants in the democratic process by connecting with policymakers and community orgs, conducting research and analysis, and informing public policy with evidence and expertise 📍
ENACT empowers students to be active participants in the democratic process by connecting with policymakers and community orgs, conducting research and analysis, and informing public policy with evidence and expertise 📍
Join us for a Q&A session tomorrow at 1pm ET with a few of the authors of "ENACTing Change: A Handbook for Teaching Advocacy and Civic Engagement." This session will provide examples of how to bring civic engagement into the classroom!
🔗 Register: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...
🔗 Register: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TODAY! Looking forward to this Q&A with @robglover.bsky.social et al
ENACT empowers students to be active participants in the democratic process by connecting with policymakers and community orgs, conducting research and analysis, and informing public policy with evidence and expertise 📍
ENACT empowers students to be active participants in the democratic process by connecting with policymakers and community orgs, conducting research and analysis, and informing public policy with evidence and expertise 📍
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Ok this is very exciting I'm not going to lie
The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy. n.pr/48Io9DM
Believe it or not, this book makes taxes fascinating
The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about preserving democracy.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ok this is very exciting I'm not going to lie
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the #Administration of #Medicaid & #Elections Shapes #Mass #Voter #Turnout
By Meredith Dost
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the #Administration of #Medicaid & #Elections Shapes #Mass #Voter #Turnout
By Meredith Dost
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the #Administration of #Medicaid & #Elections Shapes #Mass #Voter #Turnout
By Meredith Dost
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the #Administration of #Medicaid & #Elections Shapes #Mass #Voter #Turnout
By Meredith Dost
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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An effective government defends people’s right to privacy. State lawmakers can use their governing power to protect their constituents against federal overreach.
ctmirror.org/2025/11/28/c...
ctmirror.org/2025/11/28/c...
CT strengthens residents' data protections amid federal requests
Federal officials approached CT's third-party vendor, asking for SNAP recipients' personal information. State officials took it as a warning.
ctmirror.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
An effective government defends people’s right to privacy. State lawmakers can use their governing power to protect their constituents against federal overreach.
ctmirror.org/2025/11/28/c...
ctmirror.org/2025/11/28/c...
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My latest. The shutdown stressed food banks, and the Republican attack on SNAP may create a food insecurity crisis that the charitable system cannot meet.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
‘Want in the Midst of Abundance’ | Christopher Bosso
Most of us grumbled through the latest federal government shutdown, vexed by airport delays, minimally staffed national parks, and shuttered local
www.nybooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My latest. The shutdown stressed food banks, and the Republican attack on SNAP may create a food insecurity crisis that the charitable system cannot meet.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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In case you missed today’s hearing. There were some incredibly powerful stories told by the five main witnesses. You’ve seen many of the videos of what happened to them, now hear from them in their own words.
Also grateful for how many members of the House and Senate showed up to uplift the issue.
Also grateful for how many members of the House and Senate showed up to uplift the issue.
December 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In case you missed today’s hearing. There were some incredibly powerful stories told by the five main witnesses. You’ve seen many of the videos of what happened to them, now hear from them in their own words.
Also grateful for how many members of the House and Senate showed up to uplift the issue.
Also grateful for how many members of the House and Senate showed up to uplift the issue.
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#NOW: Our Senior Fellow, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social, is testifying at a shadow hearing convened by House Oversight Democrats and the Senate PSI on DHS’s enforcement overreach. He’s joined by five U.S. citizens recently arrested or detained by DHS. Livestream details below.
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#NOW: Our Senior Fellow, @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social, is testifying at a shadow hearing convened by House Oversight Democrats and the Senate PSI on DHS’s enforcement overreach. He’s joined by five U.S. citizens recently arrested or detained by DHS. Livestream details below.
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The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if you’d like one.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if you’d like one.
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Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up.
Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky
Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky
CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty
www.aeaweb.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up.
Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky
Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky
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Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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Now published with @anbutler5.bsky.social -- we study how development and gentrification shape the dynamics of school choice for of middle-class families in Detroit.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Now published with @anbutler5.bsky.social -- we study how development and gentrification shape the dynamics of school choice for of middle-class families in Detroit.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"In the space of a generation, then, the Supreme Court’s attitude toward partisan gerrymandering has shifted from tolerating it as a necessary evil to embracing it as savvy politics."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"In the space of a generation, then, the Supreme Court’s attitude toward partisan gerrymandering has shifted from tolerating it as a necessary evil to embracing it as savvy politics."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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I really loved Allison Daminger’s book! Highly recommend. She helped me get a handle on the current state of “mental load” work outside Econ (and bonus seems to mention my work with @olgastoddard.bsky.social @kbuzard7.bsky.social in the concluding chapter 🥰)
For the Culture Study, What’s On Her Mind author Allison Daminger spoke with @annehelen.bsky.social about mental load and gendered labor divisions. Read more:
"One of the most-cited articles in the sociology of gender argues that “man” and “woman” are not stable identities but roles we must constantly perform. It’s less “I am a woman” and more “I do woman.”
www.patreon.com/posts/fascin...
www.patreon.com/posts/fascin...
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I really loved Allison Daminger’s book! Highly recommend. She helped me get a handle on the current state of “mental load” work outside Econ (and bonus seems to mention my work with @olgastoddard.bsky.social @kbuzard7.bsky.social in the concluding chapter 🥰)
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I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I tried out a new idea in my Race, Place & Inequality class this term: students formed small reading groups and spent the semester reading a book on a topic not already covered on the syllabus (in addition to all the regular readings). A quick list of the books they read (many released this year):
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
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New ethnographic work highlights "class evasiveness" in a diverse suburban high school where "students, adults, and school policies... [displace] class onto race and [downplay] socioeconomic inequalities, [leaving] material inequalities [to] persist and go undiscussed" doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf075
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New ethnographic work highlights "class evasiveness" in a diverse suburban high school where "students, adults, and school policies... [displace] class onto race and [downplay] socioeconomic inequalities, [leaving] material inequalities [to] persist and go undiscussed" doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf075
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😬 read a bit about me and my new book—Black Girls and How We Fail Them!
Thanks Eden and @19thnews.org for the feature ☺️
Thanks Eden and @19thnews.org for the feature ☺️
The 19th spoke with Aria S. Halliday about her inspiration for the book, her own journey and what Black girls and women can learn from each other.
Black girls are ‘missing’ from popular media. Here’s how we can do better.
In her new book, author and cultural critic Aria S. Halliday considers how society has limited who Black girls are — and who they can become.
19thnews.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
😬 read a bit about me and my new book—Black Girls and How We Fail Them!
Thanks Eden and @19thnews.org for the feature ☺️
Thanks Eden and @19thnews.org for the feature ☺️
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Come on podcast listeners! Here’s a good one ☺️
@drariahalliday.bsky.social joins us to share her new book Black Girls and How We Fail Them, pub by @uncpress.bsky.social.
#BookSky #AcademicSky
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#BookSky #AcademicSky
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Come on podcast listeners! Here’s a good one ☺️
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You can pre-order my book! (A little Christmas gift I guess I've given to myself).
I love everything about Congress, even on its worst days. I have SOOOO many people to thank but just know how incredibly grateful I am to be able to call so many of you friends.
a.co/d/cNWU1o5
I love everything about Congress, even on its worst days. I have SOOOO many people to thank but just know how incredibly grateful I am to be able to call so many of you friends.
a.co/d/cNWU1o5
Amazon.com: Tweeting Scared: Congress's Crisis of Communication (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics): 9780197808306: Russell, Annelise: Books
Amazon.com: Tweeting Scared: Congress's Crisis of Communication (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics): 9780197808306: Russell, Annelise: Books
a.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You can pre-order my book! (A little Christmas gift I guess I've given to myself).
I love everything about Congress, even on its worst days. I have SOOOO many people to thank but just know how incredibly grateful I am to be able to call so many of you friends.
a.co/d/cNWU1o5
I love everything about Congress, even on its worst days. I have SOOOO many people to thank but just know how incredibly grateful I am to be able to call so many of you friends.
a.co/d/cNWU1o5
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Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Little late sharing this but way to Represent Amada Armenta!
luskin.ucla.edu/lppi-faculty...
luskin.ucla.edu/lppi-faculty...
LPPI Faculty Director Amada Armenta’s Personal History Influences Her Policy Efforts
Her research pushes back on the narrative that Latino communities don’t matter.
luskin.ucla.edu
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Little late sharing this but way to Represent Amada Armenta!
luskin.ucla.edu/lppi-faculty...
luskin.ucla.edu/lppi-faculty...