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Carolyn Swope

@cbswope.bsky.social

PhD candidate in urban planning | researching historical and contemporary production of housing & health injustice

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great to see this work from @aspishakthomas.com! Spishak-Thomas A. The Association of Medicaid Estate Recovery with Homeownership, Home Equity, and Medicaid Enrollment. Milbank Q. 2026;104(3):0427. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.70087.

The Association of Medicaid Estate Recovery with Homeownership, Home Equity, and Medicaid Enrollment | Milbank Quarterly

In response to the high cost of state-run Medicaid programs, the 1993 Medicaid estate recovery policy was established to enable states to recover assets from the estates of beneficiaries after death. ...

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Urban Affairs Association (UAA)@uaanews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣🏆2026 Best Article in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City Award Recipient: Akira Drake Rodriguez urbanaffairsassociation.org/2026/03/04/a... @akirarodriguez.bsky.social

Akira Drake Rodriguez to Receive the 2026 Best Article in JRE Award

Akira Drake Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania) has been selected to receive the 2026 Best Article in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City Award for her paper “Reparative-advocacy planning t...

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Carolyn Swope@cbswope.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm deeply honored to have received the Founder's Prize for the best article of the year in Social Science History. It's especially meaningful because SSHA has been such a generative and welcoming community for me as the co-chair of the Historical Geography and HGIS network.

Social Science History Association@socscihistory.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Carolyn Swope received the Founder's Prize for her article “The Spatial Configuration of Segregation, Elite Fears of Disease, and Housing Reform in Washington, D.C.’s Inhabited Alleys” published in SSH 48(2). shorturl.at/eVz4A Congratulations! #sociology #history #segregation #housing #epidemiology

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb
Carolyn Swope@cbswope.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What better way to start a new semester and return from maternity leave than to share a new paper with my brilliant co-authors! We examine Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) through a critical urban theory lens

Urban Affairs Association (UAA)@uaanews.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Emergency rental assistance under COVID capitalism: A case study assessment of state and local rent relief programs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social

Dan Immergluck@danimmergluck.bsky.social · last yr.

New from me on scholarship by @cbswope.bsky.social et al. "As the Trump Administration attempts to eviscerate fair housing...regulations...we need to recognize the persistence and resilience of racial-capitalist exploitation and dispossession, and not view it only as some relic of an earlier era."

What if the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) Redlining Maps Were Not Actually the Root Cause of So Much Modern Health (and Other) Inequality?

Seeking more complete—but still highly racialized—explanations of urban spatial inequities.

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Scott Markley@snmarkley.bsky.social · last yr.

Glad to see this piece out! In it, we trace the explosion of HOLC redlining studies in public health research over recent years and propose that scholars widen their focus to include some of the myriad other discriminatory processes that have generated racial health inequities.

Articles About Redlining by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), by Discipline: United States, 2001–2023. Output increases substantially post-2016, especially in the public health literature.Table showing select other racialized processes affecting neighborhoods that scholars could focus on in addition to HOLC "redlining"How and Why Does Redlining Matter for Present-Day Health? Critical Perspectives on Causality, Cartography, and Capitalism Abstract: Recent years have seen an explosion of public health research on associations between historical redlining maps created by a US government agency, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), and present-day outcomes. Yet precisely how and why HOLC’s surveys help us understand the underpinnings of present-day racial inequities remains unclear. We apply an interdisciplinary perspective to assess the contributions and limitations of this literature, particularly with regard to causal mechanisms and theoretical explanations. While research often frames HOLC redlining as a measure of structural racism that directly shapes present-day outcomes, we look instead to racial capitalism to understand how and why racialized housing policies are implemented. We argue that the HOLC maps represent symptoms, not causes, of systematic disinvestment in Black communities, that redlining was not produced by the federal government in isolation but was shaped by public‒private collaboration and infused with capitalist logics, and that redlining interacted with many other forms of racialized housing dispossession to shape present-day riskscapes. We conclude by offering conceptual and methodological recommendations for public health researchers, including suggestions for data sources other than HOLC maps.
Carolyn Swope@cbswope.bsky.social · last yr.

Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley.bsky.social, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 1/

Dan Immergluck@danimmergluck.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵A much-needed corrective to the “HOLC redlining was the primary/root cause of everything bad” literature that has exploded since the HOLC maps were digitized. A more complicated, but still heavily racialized story. Lots of other private and public discriminatory policies & practices involved.

Carolyn Swope@cbswope.bsky.social · last yr.

Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley.bsky.social, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 1/

Carolyn Swope@cbswope.bsky.social · last yr.

Belatedly introducing a new piece on racial capitalism, redlining, causality, and public health that I was lucky enough to work on with coauthors @snmarkley.bsky.social, Shannon Whittaker, and Amy Hillier! ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/... 1/

How and Why Does Redlining Matter for Present-Day Health? Critical Perspectives on Causality, Cartography, and Capitalism | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 5

Recent years have seen an explosion of public health research on associations between historical redlining maps created by a US government agency, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), and present...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

“The issue is that Khalil and the others who have been abducted in recent weeks are being jailed because they were dissident protesters, student organizers, op-ed authors, and anti-genocide activists. In other words, they have been targeted for their political views. They are political prisoners.”

Setting aside the fact that there have always been political prisoners in the United States, I am in a position to know what we’re looking at. And let me tell you—it is the same worn textbook. The issue is not that Mahmoud Khalil holds a green card, nor is it only that his arrest violated “due process,” though many liberal Americans indeed wish us to take issue with only that. The issue is that Khalil and the others who have been abducted in recent weeks are being jailed because they were dissident protesters, student organizers, op-ed authors, and anti-genocide activists. In other words, they have been targeted for their political views. They are political prisoners.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

“After Mahmoud Khalil was abducted by ICE agents in front of his university apartment in NYC, I locked myself inside my home for a month… my lawyers gently but unequivocally told me that the question had likely become no longer if I would be arrested but when.” So, Abdelrahman ElGendy fled the US.

I was a political prisoner for over six years in Egypt. Last week, I fled the US to escape the possibility of the same fate. After Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in front of his university apartment in New York City, I locked myself inside my home for a month. As an Egyptian international student whose name had appeared on one of the Zionist doxxing sites being used by the Trump administration to help pick its deportation targets, I knew to expect the worst. When the administration revoked the first F-1 visa at my university, my lawyers gently but unequivocally told me that the question had likely become no longer if I would be arrested but when.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

1. Every Dem Senator should be doing this, at minimum, for their constituents. 2. Why won't my Senators in New York do this for my fellow Columbia students incarcerated in Louisiana? It's a quicker flight.

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · last yr.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Carolyn Swope@cbswope.bsky.social · last yr.

Columbia University PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan had her visa unjustly revoked without explanation and was forced to flee the US. Despite being in academic good standing, Columbia withdrew her enrollment and her legal status was terminated without due process.

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Laura Seay@texasinafrica.bsky.social · last yr.

Before Mahmoud Khalil's detention last week, ICE came for a Columbia PhD student. She had nothing to do with the Gaza protests, but was arrested last spring during a roundup while trying to walk home. Charges were dismissed. The State Department still revoked her visa.

How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her

Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · last yr.

This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last yr.

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · last yr.

One might think that Columbia would want to put out a statement defending its students and making sure they feel protected. Instead, it wants to clarify that there are circumstances in which they will open the door for ICE to enter and snatch international students.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

Columbia has edited a webpage to specify what circumstances justify allowing ICE into buildings without a warrant: “Exigent circumstances (for example, the risk of imminent harm to people or property)…” publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/prot...

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

My union @swcolumbia.bsky.social has created a resource to support international students who are experiencing increasingly higher risk of immigration enforcement. We have done this on our own time while the University has remained silent and complicit. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Info for international student workers

What is this document? This is a living document maintained by SWC’s International Students Working Group and Cops Off Campus Working Group. We will keep adding to it as the situation develops and as...

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Marya@maryapetry.bsky.social · last yr.

A lot of Irish Americans — too many of whom are MAGA —need to draw on their immigration history of being starved out of their home country by a hateful, imperial occupier enforcing deliberately cruel laws. It is a sin to view people as ‘other’ when your ancestors suffered that fate.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last yr.

My grandma was a Biafra war survivor. So it’s likely certain survival instincts for me are kicking in about our current situation. But from her I learned it’s possible for things to be a little shaky for a while, and then one day all of a sudden, your world is gone, and you have to leave.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo. “Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.” Part of memo:

ATTACHMENT Service Members and Applicants for Military Service who Have a Current Diagnosis or History of, or Exhibit Symptoms Consistent with, Gender Dysphoria 1. Policy. It is DoD policy that: a. Service in the Military Services is open to all persons who can meet the high standards for military service and readiness without special accommodations. b. It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for Service 1s inconsistent with the medical is inconsistinest the medical, surgi, al, and mental he, un constraints on individuals wiplicy gender dysphoria or who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria. c. Military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service. Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. d. Individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service, except as set forth in sections 4.1.c. and 4.3.c. of this attachment. e. Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service in accordance with section 4.4. of this attachment. Characterization of service under these procedures will be honorable except where the Service member's record otherwise warrants a lower characterization. f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to