Shamus Khan
@shamuskhan.bsky.social
prof @princeton. Views my own
Fantastic paper. Check it out!!!
I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various t...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Fantastic paper. Check it out!!!
My textbook with Gwen Sharp and Patrick Sharkey is on its third edition. This fall our team is launching a Political Science book, edited by Josh Tucker and @rudalev.bsky.social
Thrilled to have this out in the world! Check it out (sociologists might find some of the chapters useful for teaching)
Thrilled to have this out in the world! Check it out (sociologists might find some of the chapters useful for teaching)
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
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✅ Written by top scholars
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Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My textbook with Gwen Sharp and Patrick Sharkey is on its third edition. This fall our team is launching a Political Science book, edited by Josh Tucker and @rudalev.bsky.social
Thrilled to have this out in the world! Check it out (sociologists might find some of the chapters useful for teaching)
Thrilled to have this out in the world! Check it out (sociologists might find some of the chapters useful for teaching)
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
www.PoliticsExperiment.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper?
We built one:
✅ $1/chapter
✅ Modular & flexible
✅ Written by top scholars
✅ Full (free!) instructor resources
🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com
Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!
Princeton's president: the attacks on Columbia are an attack on all of us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
www.theatlantic.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Princeton's president: the attacks on Columbia are an attack on all of us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.
“He said that the inmates would perform forced labor for at least a year, possibly more, and that the “United States will pay a very low fee for them.””
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Trump sends more than 200 alleged gang members to prison in El Salvador
The administration won’t identify those moved — or say whether the Alien Enemies Act, which briefly sped up some deportations, played any role.
wapo.st
March 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.
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Blog post by my colleagues @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Jamal Greene, Olatunde Johnson, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen on the recent Title VI demand letter from the government: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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March 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Blog post by my colleagues @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Jamal Greene, Olatunde Johnson, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen on the recent Title VI demand letter from the government: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically.
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March 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically.
(www.ft.com/content/7568... )
(www.ft.com/content/7568... )
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This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.
Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.
USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs
The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...
www.pressherald.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
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Happy 6 month anniversary of an overseas talk for which I was supposed to receive travel reimbursement but haven't yet.
Scientific societies: think twice before hiring Reed-Mackey to plan your next conference. Makes German uni bureaucracy seem positively client-centered by comparison.
Scientific societies: think twice before hiring Reed-Mackey to plan your next conference. Makes German uni bureaucracy seem positively client-centered by comparison.
March 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Happy 6 month anniversary of an overseas talk for which I was supposed to receive travel reimbursement but haven't yet.
Scientific societies: think twice before hiring Reed-Mackey to plan your next conference. Makes German uni bureaucracy seem positively client-centered by comparison.
Scientific societies: think twice before hiring Reed-Mackey to plan your next conference. Makes German uni bureaucracy seem positively client-centered by comparison.
These days my free speech defenders really showing who they were the whole time.
March 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
These days my free speech defenders really showing who they were the whole time.
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My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
“Which Cases Do I Need?” Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research | Annual Reviews
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, “Which cases do I need?” We argue that a core feature of most qualitative rese...
www.annualreviews.org
May 10, 2024 at 5:38 PM
My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Columbia continues to be closed to the public. What a terrible example of an institution of education.
February 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Columbia continues to be closed to the public. What a terrible example of an institution of education.
Congratulations to @timgill924.bsky.social for being honored with the presidential medal of freedom today. So well earned.
January 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Congratulations to @timgill924.bsky.social for being honored with the presidential medal of freedom today. So well earned.
Pretty excited to see the Chinese translation of Sexual Citizens come out.
January 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Pretty excited to see the Chinese translation of Sexual Citizens come out.
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Need something to listen to while you’re dashing around this weekend or chilling at home?
I humbly submit this, drawing on #SexualCitizens, coauthored w @shamuskhan.bsky.social
I humbly submit this, drawing on #SexualCitizens, coauthored w @shamuskhan.bsky.social
Closing out the latest season of our BornCurious podcast is a conversation about sexual citizenship: What is it—and how can we be better at it? We talk to the anthropologist and fellow @jennifershirsch.bsky.social for more. www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...
Episode 309: How to Be a Better Sexual Citizen | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
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December 20, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Need something to listen to while you’re dashing around this weekend or chilling at home?
I humbly submit this, drawing on #SexualCitizens, coauthored w @shamuskhan.bsky.social
I humbly submit this, drawing on #SexualCitizens, coauthored w @shamuskhan.bsky.social