Davon Norris
@davonnorris.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Organizational Studies at U of Michigan, but a Buckeye forever. In these debt and municipal finance streets
🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring a junior professor in Policy Analysis/Public Administration/Public Management here at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy 🚨🚨🚨 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05497
Assistant Professor - General Public Policy and Administration: Policy Analysis, Public Administration and Management - Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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To commemorate the journal's upcoming 25th anniversary, we are excited to announce the Emerging Scholars Conference—an opportunity for grad students and postdocs to showcase their work related to urban sociology—at Georgetown on April 23, 2027. Call for submissions: tinyurl.com/cicoconfinfo
our own graphic designer @nicoleharvel.bsky.social reviewed the new @wnba.com Cleveland Sirens logo because why wouldn’t she
Thomas Costello@thomascostello.bsky.social · 2w agoThe entire suite of Cleveland Sirens logos.
I have never ending battles with vending machines. But today we got a win! My building now has a Coke vending machine enabling me to get Coke Zero easily. No more of the Diet Pepsi non-sense I’ve been dealing with for four years.
Remembering 'Hello, Detroit,' Sammy Davis Jr.'s love letter to the city
Remembering 'Hello, Detroit,' Sammy Davis Jr.'s love letter to the city
On the city's 325th birthday, Berry Gordy and others recall how Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Hello, Detroit" became an enduring way to show pride in Detroit.
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Pleased to be quoted in this Seattle Times article on inequalities in home insurance premiums between White and Black / Hispanic households. I suggest these inequalities may contribute to racial inequalities in the wealth-building effects of homeownership. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
Homeowners of color pay higher insurance costs in WA, nationwide
New research finds a link between the cost of homeowners' insurance and the racial makeup of a neighborhood.
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Thirteen years ago this morning, the Supreme Court struck down the first pillar in the Voting Rights Act. Today, the rest is all but gone, too. If you want to understand how we got here, and where we're likely headed, consider preordering our book (out in October!):
An American Problem: How the Country Built-and the Supreme Court Broke-the Voting Rights Act
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fresh off Cape Verde's 0-0 defeat of Spain, Cape Verde extends their streak with a 2-2 defeat of Uruguay
UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Sociology - 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...
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hazard pay for our beaver comrades or we're striking
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3mo ago1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.
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Lives saved by sociologist’s fix for skin tone bias
A two-dollar badge is saving lives in hospitals around the world. The product, groundbreaking but simple, is a scale of colors that reflects a more complete range of human skin tones. Developed by Pro...
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New ASR paper finds no effect of state right-to-work laws on employment or number of business establishments (1946-2019). Argues that state spillovers, such as tax breaks in non-right-to-work states, explain the non-effect of right-to-work. gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The mayor of Corpus Christi called an emergency meeting last month to deliver a dire warning: The city, among the largest in Texas, was running out of water. The municipal dysfunction and drought in the area offers a cautionary tale for the rest of the U.S.
Corpus Christi Faces Water Crisis as Drought and Industrial Growth Strain Supply
Rising demand, municipal dysfunction and drought have pushed Corpus Christi to the edge of a water emergency, offering a cautionary tale for the rest of the country.
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As we get these decreases in social supports, we need to keep our eye on trends in borrowing and delinquency rates in the coming quarters. This paired with rising costs in different categories are important headwinds for low income household balance sheets
Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.
So excited to share that Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb is available for pre-order! Use code UCPSAVE30 to save 30%. www.ucpress.edu/books/divers... @ucpress.bsky.social
I only watch CBS during March Madness, so a bit stunned to see they apparently air NCIS, NCIS: ORIGINS, NCIS: SYDNEY, CIA, FBI, FBI: INTERNATIONAL, FBI: MOST WANTED, CSI: VEGAS, BLUE BLOODS, BOSTON BLUE, SWAT, FIRE COUNTRY, SHERIFF COUNTRY, MARSHALS, TRACKER, and THE EQUALIZER. Seems like a theme?
This work is elite, in more ways than one! And in my opinion, this is sociology at its best! Check it out!
Shay O’Brien@shayobrien.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy latest article is online now at American Sociological Review: “Kinship Interlocks.” It’s about how some elite families manage to stay rich and powerful for many generations while others don’t. 🧵 (1/16)
There’s still time to join our own conference organizers @davonnorris.bsky.social and @jeremylevine.bsky.social for our 1-day conference, Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism, Friday, 4/10. #Umich #AcademicSky Check out the schedule & register by Monday, 3/30: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu
Registration is open for the @umichstonecid.bsky.social April 10 conference on measuring and theorizing structural racism. Check out the schedule & panelists, and register: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu
Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.
Tomorrow! We're thrilled to welcome @shayobrien.bsky.social, Postdoc @mitshapingwork.bsky.social , to CID as she presents, "Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence.” Learn more and RSVP: myumi.ch/3RWWp
ISR researcher @jeremylevine.bsky.social studies why victim compensation laws often fail survivors. His new project evaluates a New York policy change removing the police report requirement to see if it improves access for victims and informs reforms nationwide.
Squad!!! We also gotta shoutout the baller women up and down the ISR org chart like the trinity running our @umichstonecid.bsky.social: our fearless leader Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social , Melissa Bora keeping everything humming, and Nicole Bonomini broadcasting us to the world!
Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan@umisr.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis Women’s History Month, we recognize the women leading ISR, the major centers and initiatives at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Their leadership drives research that informs policy and strengthens communities worldwide!
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S.
The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.
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We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!
Tom VanHeuvelen@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.
Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇
Tom VanHeuvelen@tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is one heck of a study by the Ohio State credit data crew, led by Alec Rhodes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... I've seen him present on it a few times. Very excited to see it out in print.
