Valentina Cantori
@valecantori.bsky.social
Sociologist in the making @USC. Studying representations of Public Islam in U.S. civic life | proud first-gen | tagliatelle-maker 🍝🇮🇹
www.valentinacantori.com
www.valentinacantori.com
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Since we have finally moved to a new home, it is a good time to remind everyone about my latest publication discussing how American Muslim advocates attempt to reverse the tarnished narratives on Islam and Muslims in U.S. civic life. Link in the first comment.
How we celebrate R&Rs 🌟🐾🎉🍾
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
How we celebrate R&Rs 🌟🐾🎉🍾
🏆 Honored that my latest publication, "Trajectories of Public Islam," has won the 2025 American Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Section Award for Best Student Paper ⭐. If you are interested, here is a link to access the article:
doi.org/10.1093/socp...
doi.org/10.1093/socp...
May 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🏆 Honored that my latest publication, "Trajectories of Public Islam," has won the 2025 American Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Section Award for Best Student Paper ⭐. If you are interested, here is a link to access the article:
doi.org/10.1093/socp...
doi.org/10.1093/socp...
Am I the only one that is now terrified of eating U.S. produce and U.S.-made food even more than I was before?
January 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Am I the only one that is now terrified of eating U.S. produce and U.S.-made food even more than I was before?
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A couple more weeks to apply for this! ✉️ me if interested and want to discuss
🚨 We're hiring a Postdoc to join a project led by @cbarrie.bsky.social, using AI, agent-based models & surveys to uncover ways social media algorithms might promote democratic norms, build trust & reduce polarisation.
✍️ Apply before 31 Jan 2025!
Find out more ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
✍️ Apply before 31 Jan 2025!
Find out more ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
January 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A couple more weeks to apply for this! ✉️ me if interested and want to discuss
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Why will rents balloon? Who will raise the rents? Who will be profiting off of disaster, experts? Passive voice is doing some serious work here, @latimes.com. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say
Rents will go up as thousands of displaced homeowners and tenants hit an already tight market, analysts and advocates said. Insurance costs, contracting and permitting are among the myriad of stressor...
www.latimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Why will rents balloon? Who will raise the rents? Who will be profiting off of disaster, experts? Passive voice is doing some serious work here, @latimes.com. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
Weirdest things older scholars have told you as a suggestion for the job market?
I’ll go first: Downplay your looks to be taken seriously… 😱🙊
#AcademicSky
I’ll go first: Downplay your looks to be taken seriously… 😱🙊
#AcademicSky
December 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Weirdest things older scholars have told you as a suggestion for the job market?
I’ll go first: Downplay your looks to be taken seriously… 😱🙊
#AcademicSky
I’ll go first: Downplay your looks to be taken seriously… 😱🙊
#AcademicSky
Excited to dig in!
December 20, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Excited to dig in!
So honored to have received this award in recognition of my latest publication!
If you are interested in civic life, democracy, the possibilities for inclusion and belonging, racialization, and advocacy, you might find this article relevant.
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If you are interested in civic life, democracy, the possibilities for inclusion and belonging, racialization, and advocacy, you might find this article relevant.
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Congratulations to Valentina Cantori, winner of the SSSR 2024 Student Paper Award (published) for "Trajectories of Public Islam: Public Religious Expressions Among American Muslim Advocates." sssreligion.org/awards-grant...
December 19, 2024 at 4:09 PM
So honored to have received this award in recognition of my latest publication!
If you are interested in civic life, democracy, the possibilities for inclusion and belonging, racialization, and advocacy, you might find this article relevant.
📚 📝 🤓
If you are interested in civic life, democracy, the possibilities for inclusion and belonging, racialization, and advocacy, you might find this article relevant.
📚 📝 🤓
December 8, 2024 at 10:13 PM
My (paid-for-by-USC) editor just corrected my “danglin’ mod,” and now I cannot call dangling modifiers any other way.
#WritingSky
#WritingSky
December 6, 2024 at 12:18 AM
My (paid-for-by-USC) editor just corrected my “danglin’ mod,” and now I cannot call dangling modifiers any other way.
#WritingSky
#WritingSky
December 3, 2024 at 10:57 PM
December 1, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
Sunday Funday: I need to cut a book chapter from 9,719 works to around 7,500. Drop all your favorite trimming tricks in the comments!
#AcademicSky #writing
#AcademicSky #writing
November 24, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Sunday Funday: I need to cut a book chapter from 9,719 works to around 7,500. Drop all your favorite trimming tricks in the comments!
#AcademicSky #writing
#AcademicSky #writing
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This is a brazen attack on free voices. This law enables crushing nonprofit organisations including media and civil rights groups by labeling them "terrorism supporters."
This is authoritarianism in plain sight!
When voices are silenced, democracy crumbles.
nonprofitquarterly.org/hr-9495-bill...
This is authoritarianism in plain sight!
When voices are silenced, democracy crumbles.
nonprofitquarterly.org/hr-9495-bill...
HR 9495: Bill Threatening Nonprofits Passes House - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
A bill, HR 9495, which would allow a presidentially appointed treasury secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of its status if deemed a “terrorism-supporting” organization, has passed in the US H...
nonprofitquarterly.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM
This is a brazen attack on free voices. This law enables crushing nonprofit organisations including media and civil rights groups by labeling them "terrorism supporters."
This is authoritarianism in plain sight!
When voices are silenced, democracy crumbles.
nonprofitquarterly.org/hr-9495-bill...
This is authoritarianism in plain sight!
When voices are silenced, democracy crumbles.
nonprofitquarterly.org/hr-9495-bill...
US rejection letters: “We have considered 400 applications. We marveled at all of them. The decision was so tough. We regret to inform you your fascinating work was not shortlisted.”
UK rejection letters: “We regret to inform you did not make it. Deal with it.”
I am British at heart 💛
#AcademicSky
UK rejection letters: “We regret to inform you did not make it. Deal with it.”
I am British at heart 💛
#AcademicSky
November 22, 2024 at 3:53 PM
US rejection letters: “We have considered 400 applications. We marveled at all of them. The decision was so tough. We regret to inform you your fascinating work was not shortlisted.”
UK rejection letters: “We regret to inform you did not make it. Deal with it.”
I am British at heart 💛
#AcademicSky
UK rejection letters: “We regret to inform you did not make it. Deal with it.”
I am British at heart 💛
#AcademicSky
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Congrats to @asapolisoc.bsky.social Chair @fisherdanar.bsky.social for delivering a fascinating TED talk! www.ted.com/talks/dana_r...
How to be an "apocalyptic optimist"
Dana R. Fisher calls herself an "apocalyptic optimist" based on her research as a sociologist of large social movements. Her studies suggest that ever-increasing climate disasters will get people out ...
www.ted.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Congrats to @asapolisoc.bsky.social Chair @fisherdanar.bsky.social for delivering a fascinating TED talk! www.ted.com/talks/dana_r...
Research assistants taking a well deserved break after proof editing my chapter all day.
November 22, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Research assistants taking a well deserved break after proof editing my chapter all day.
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⏰ Please share widely!
We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
Predoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 303)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...
wzb.hr4you.org
November 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
⏰ Please share widely!
We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!
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Another TT job open at Loyola Chicago. Islamic Studies. Come and be my colleague!
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/297...
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/297...
Theology, Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Tenure Track
The Department of Theology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candidates for an appointment as Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2025. The department ser...
www.careers.luc.edu
November 21, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Another TT job open at Loyola Chicago. Islamic Studies. Come and be my colleague!
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/297...
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/297...
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Good morning scholars / #AcademicSky! My phenomenal colleague Atiya Husain's (@atiyahusain.bsky.social's) book is coming out and is available for pre-order. "No God But Man" uses FBI most wanted posters to think about race, religion, and terrorism. Spread the word! www.dukeupress.edu/no-god-but-man
November 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Good morning scholars / #AcademicSky! My phenomenal colleague Atiya Husain's (@atiyahusain.bsky.social's) book is coming out and is available for pre-order. "No God But Man" uses FBI most wanted posters to think about race, religion, and terrorism. Spread the word! www.dukeupress.edu/no-god-but-man
Since we have finally moved to a new home, it is a good time to remind everyone about my latest publication discussing how American Muslim advocates attempt to reverse the tarnished narratives on Islam and Muslims in U.S. civic life. Link in the first comment.
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Since we have finally moved to a new home, it is a good time to remind everyone about my latest publication discussing how American Muslim advocates attempt to reverse the tarnished narratives on Islam and Muslims in U.S. civic life. Link in the first comment.
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Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
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okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else:
go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G
go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G
November 20, 2024 at 3:13 PM
okay everybody, I just created a new starter pack on scholars (probably mostly sociologists for now) who work on religion, culture, and/or politics. Please let me know if I missed you or if you want me to add anyone else:
go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G
go.bsky.app/EAV2G9G
This is why I am here.
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 AM
This is why I am here.