Joel Mittleman
@joeljm.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn.
Studying gender, education and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him.
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
Studying gender, education and LGBTQ+ populations. He/him.
https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/joel-mittleman
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Sociologists & Demographers:
My program is considering changing how we approach qualifying exams in the age of ChatGPT.
How have your departments adjusted to this new world? Have you made changes? What’s your approach?
My program is considering changing how we approach qualifying exams in the age of ChatGPT.
How have your departments adjusted to this new world? Have you made changes? What’s your approach?
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Sociologists & Demographers:
My program is considering changing how we approach qualifying exams in the age of ChatGPT.
How have your departments adjusted to this new world? Have you made changes? What’s your approach?
My program is considering changing how we approach qualifying exams in the age of ChatGPT.
How have your departments adjusted to this new world? Have you made changes? What’s your approach?
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I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm facilitating a causal inference reading group next semester for Sociology PhD students. (I will also be learning!) If there are (1) pedagogical articles or (2) empirical examples in soc that you ❤️, will you share in the comments? [And please RT to help me crowd-source!]
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Super stoked about this: Schilt, Kristen, D’Lane R. Compton, and Khoa Phan. Forthcoming. “Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the 21st Century.” American Review of Sociology. #bucketlisting
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Super stoked about this: Schilt, Kristen, D’Lane R. Compton, and Khoa Phan. Forthcoming. “Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the 21st Century.” American Review of Sociology. #bucketlisting
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Faculty misconduct changes what students study and whether they finish. Universities say they want stronger pipelines into male-dominated fields, but historically have papered over and tolerated behavior that punctures them.
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Faculty misconduct changes what students study and whether they finish. Universities say they want stronger pipelines into male-dominated fields, but historically have papered over and tolerated behavior that punctures them.
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Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
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🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality
Abstract. Over the past three decades in the United States, a surge of federal, state, and local laws and policies has increased levels of immigration enfo
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨 New paper: “The Bodily Scars of Legal Violence: Local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, & health inequality” 🚨
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Forthcoming in @sfjournal.bsky.social w @ngraetz.bsky.social @atheendar.bsky.social & Robin Ortiz
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
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Are you working in #LGBTQ related research topics?! Come visit us in Melbourne next year!!
While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;)
Also there are a handful of scholarships available!
@jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social
While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;)
Also there are a handful of scholarships available!
@jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social
Call for papers are now open for the #LGBTQ+ Economists and Allies in the Asia-Pacific (LEAP) Summit on 13-14 May in wonderful Melbourne! ☕ 🌈
The Summit will showcase applied & empirical research under the theme of Advancing LGBTQ+ equity in workplaces, markets, and society.
shorturl.at/FR9GY
The Summit will showcase applied & empirical research under the theme of Advancing LGBTQ+ equity in workplaces, markets, and society.
shorturl.at/FR9GY
LinkedIn
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October 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Are you working in #LGBTQ related research topics?! Come visit us in Melbourne next year!!
While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;)
Also there are a handful of scholarships available!
@jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social
While there is an applied/econ focus, the summit will be more multidisciplinary than most ;)
Also there are a handful of scholarships available!
@jankabatek.com @mckay.mobi @aeacsqiep.bsky.social
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I read a draft of this from @profince.bsky.social a while back, but it's changed for the better in revisions. This is a really useful engagement, critique, and extension of my theory that I'm going to have to cite a bunch. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Extending the Bridge: Racialized Organizations, Inhabited Institutionalism, and Racialization - Jelani Ince, Callie Cleckner, Tim Hallett, 2025
This article extends the nascent bridge between the sociology of race and ethnicity and organizational sociology by fostering a dialogue between the theory of r...
journals.sagepub.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I read a draft of this from @profince.bsky.social a while back, but it's changed for the better in revisions. This is a really useful engagement, critique, and extension of my theory that I'm going to have to cite a bunch. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
jobs.wisc.edu
October 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
WE'RE HIRING!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING
I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions
Please share widely!
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Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice
Organizing White People for Racial Justice
bookshop.org
September 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org
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We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
September 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).
You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!
#sociology
More 👇
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!
The August issue posted last week--5 notes, 9 articles & a note from the new Editors in Chief. This issue includes research on mobility-based segregation, child migration in Africa, educational inequality in biological aging, and inequalities in dementia risk. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...
Volume 62 Issue 4 | Demography | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!
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✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
August 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here:
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
August 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here:
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293
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I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ...
TikTok video by Harvard University Press
www.tiktok.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/
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🚨 New paper 🚨
In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.
In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.
In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States
Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles
track.smtpsendmail.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨 New paper 🚨
In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.
In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.
In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.
track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Great to see @greermellon.bsky.social with the lead article in the latest ASR. And there’s good news: even in polarized times, school boards are selecting superintendents based on perceived competence and interpersonal skills, not party affiliation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents - Greer Mellon, 2025
In recent decades, affective polarization and partisan animosity have risen sharply in the United States. To what extent have these trends affected hiring decis...
journals.sagepub.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Great to see @greermellon.bsky.social with the lead article in the latest ASR. And there’s good news: even in polarized times, school boards are selecting superintendents based on perceived competence and interpersonal skills, not party affiliation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Finalizing my syllabus for the fall and facing a question I often face: How much CJ Pascoe is too much CJ Pascoe?
a close up of a woman 's face with a purple shirt on .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a purple shirt on .
media.tenor.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Finalizing my syllabus for the fall and facing a question I often face: How much CJ Pascoe is too much CJ Pascoe?
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The Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been saved! At least in part. According to the announcement, “Several donors and host countries are funding the completion of selected surveys.”
Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.
www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...
Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.
www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been saved! At least in part. According to the announcement, “Several donors and host countries are funding the completion of selected surveys.”
Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.
www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...
Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.
www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...
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Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.
High School Effects on Civic Engagement
Preparing young people for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is cited as a fundamental purpose of public education, yet little is known about whether or how K-12 schools impact civic enga...
edworkingpapers.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.
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Penn @ #ASA2025
Presenters SATURDAY PM
Y. Wang
@margaretrutheby.bsky.social
@joeljm.bsky.social
J. Schnittker
@pgonalon.bsky.social
@elenavanstee.bsky.social
@jenksd.bsky.social
D. Kirk
M. Hanna-Ghattas
@wendyrothsoc.bsky.social
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social
FULL SCHEDULE HERE:
bit.ly/4m472RQ
Presenters SATURDAY PM
Y. Wang
@margaretrutheby.bsky.social
@joeljm.bsky.social
J. Schnittker
@pgonalon.bsky.social
@elenavanstee.bsky.social
@jenksd.bsky.social
D. Kirk
M. Hanna-Ghattas
@wendyrothsoc.bsky.social
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social
FULL SCHEDULE HERE:
bit.ly/4m472RQ
August 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Penn @ #ASA2025
Presenters SATURDAY PM
Y. Wang
@margaretrutheby.bsky.social
@joeljm.bsky.social
J. Schnittker
@pgonalon.bsky.social
@elenavanstee.bsky.social
@jenksd.bsky.social
D. Kirk
M. Hanna-Ghattas
@wendyrothsoc.bsky.social
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social
FULL SCHEDULE HERE:
bit.ly/4m472RQ
Presenters SATURDAY PM
Y. Wang
@margaretrutheby.bsky.social
@joeljm.bsky.social
J. Schnittker
@pgonalon.bsky.social
@elenavanstee.bsky.social
@jenksd.bsky.social
D. Kirk
M. Hanna-Ghattas
@wendyrothsoc.bsky.social
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social
FULL SCHEDULE HERE:
bit.ly/4m472RQ