Stefan Vogler
@svogler.bsky.social
Asst. Prof of Sociology @ U of Illinois, studying sexuality, gender, law, and knowledge. Author of Sorting Sexualities. he/him, queer, first-gen stefanvogler.com policingtherainbow.com
Just got an R&R with 15 single-spaced pages of comments 😱
Very excited that my Annual Review piece w/ PhD student Matthew Heinrichs on the legal classification of sex, gender, and sexuality is now online. Check it out! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Legal Legibility: Gender and Sexual Classifications in the Law
A growing body of literature examines either how state and legal institutions directly classify and categorize people along the lines of sex, gender, and sexuality or how such institutions set the par...
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We're hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor who can teach in Criminology, Law & Society for next year (with a possible 2nd year extension). I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. Please share with anyone who might be interested. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Visiting Assistant Professor Criminolgy, Law & Society-Sociology
Duties & ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will teach three courses (three separate preps) in support of the Department’s Minor in Criminol...
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My newest article from Policing the Rainbow is out now in Social Science & Medicine where I show the detrimental effects of police contact for both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky
Ok, but the real question that Heated Rivalry raises is this: do all hockey players have bodies like that??
Guess the UC doesn't care about the promises it made to current and former fellows that we would be able to use this incentive throughout our entire careers. Very disappointing. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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By all means, let's have a cishet, white, conservative man tell us about how women ruined the workplace. How novel. The @nytimes.com is such trash.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 11mo agoI'm too tired for this sh*t.
How about we make police carry liability insurance so the city doesn't have to cover the millions a year ($100 million in 2024, I believe) in lawsuits against the CPD? Nah, let's just raise property taxes again.
Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · last yr.A new report commissioned by Mayor Brandon Johnson presents options that could save the city up to $455.5 million and generate up to $1.65 billion in new revenue to address the city's $1.15 billion budget shortfall.
Really, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social? The guy who said gays should be stoned to death and Black women don't have the brain power of white men was practicing politics the right way? You're trash, Ezra. Be quiet. We don't have to respect a guy's bigotry just because he's dead.
Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · last yr.Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Fired for teaching facts… www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...
Video of clash over gender-identity content in Texas A&M children’s lit class leads to removals
After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description.
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So tired of being told that sexualities work is “better suited” for speciality journals. Do better, editors.
The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · last yr.No, it's a simple recognition that massive wealth in the hands of individuals is often used to constrain the freedom of others, and a functioning society should have checks against unconstrained power. Like taxing billionaires out of existence.
New newest article "Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People" is now available open access in Critical Criminology. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People - Critical Criminology
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are disproportionately incarcerated. Nascent scholarship has begun to explore this phenomenon, but we lack a comprehensive theoretical acc...
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New piece from #PolicingTheRainbow out now in Criminology! We show that LGBTQ people have a much bigger appetite for police reform than non-LGBTQ people. Check it out (it's short!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Article acceptance to brighten up this dreary Wednesday!
Very excited to finally get to announce that next spring I will be a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Study at Uni of Illinois where I will start writing for my second book based on #PolicingtheRainbow. So grateful to those who helped me in this endeavor and excited to get started!
One of my students just wrote me the best note a teacher can get, and I'm bawling. Amidst all the ChatGPT generated papers, sometimes students remind you exactly why you love teaching, so I couldn't resist sharing a little piece of what they wrote ❤️
While I don't disagree, I also have a new paper coming out soon that shows that when you tell people what "defund the police" actually means (i.e., move money from police to social services), there is much higher support for it.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last yr."Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
The thing is, the reason we don't trust conservatives in sociology is because the empirical evidence rarely supports conservative viewpoints. The reason many sociologists are "liberal" is not because we are ideologues; it is because we follow the evidence.
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · last yr.Disciplines with the largest trust gap between conservatives and liberals in the US: Climate, Environment, Virology, Ecology, Sociology. Even the lowest gap disciplines (e.g., Math) show a trust gap. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (paywalled) ht @petersuber.bsky.social
out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
There's a really fascinating thesis to be written on the far right's cooptation/weaponization of antisemitism
What could have been the story of Trump if the US were sane.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y agoMarine Le Pen, the French far-right leader and front-runner in the 2027 presidential election, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court and immediately barred from running for public office for five years. nyti.ms/4448XzW
