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Brenda Gambol

@brendagambol.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Sociology @ UT Dallas. Mom all day, every day ❤️

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Brenda Gambol @brendagambol.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Invited to speak at "Office Hours After Dark," at Halcyon in Dallas. The event was organized by former students of mine, Libby and Rose, and their colleague Celine. A very cool experience!
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Cecilia Menjivar's keynote address for 11th SCMR-JEMS Conference, held at Sussex in 2024, is now published in JEMS. Free Access in perpetuity 🙌 Explore: spr.ly/63328hpJqn #Immigration
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Categorical misalignments in immigration systems: spillovers, omissions, liminality, and the production of inequality
This article examines how immigration classification systems generate categorical misalignments through regulatory requirements, leaving certain immigrants in liminal legal status, thereby creating...
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Brenda Gambol @brendagambol.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I had such a great experience writing this paper with my colleagues, Rebecca Karam and Andrew Kim. We show that niching in nursing occurs across generations among Filipino Americans. Please check out! lnkd.in/g_bENi8A
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Nursing as ethnic capital: perceptions of intergenerational niching among Filipino Americans
Ethnic niches (jobs or sectors where an ethnic group is overrepresented) help sociologists understand immigrant mobility across generations. While ‘niche’ can describe many industries, U.S. immigra...
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Brenda Gambol @brendagambol.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
CUNY strong! Fellow GC alum, Xuemeng Li, presented her fascinating research here at UTD. Thank you my friend!!!
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Brenda Gambol @brendagambol.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Trip to Chicago for ASA was quick but amazing. Hung out with friends, gotta be a part of the IM roundtables, and reconnected with the CUNY crew. Til next year!
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
⁉️📘 Still looking to add to your Fall sociology of education courses ⁉️ Might I suggest my new book “Test, Measure, Punish: How the Threat of Closure Harms Students, Destroys Teachers, and Fails Schools?” NYU Press, Critical Perspectives on Youth series. nyupress.org/978147982340... 🧵
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I'm thrilled to share that my first book is now out!!! nyupress.org/978147982339... Many thanks to ‪@ilenekalish.bsky.social‬ & the whole team at ‪@nyupress.bsky.social‬ for helping me bring this into the world!
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Test, Measure, Punish
The risk of closure and repression in schoolsIn the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools nationwide related to...
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Brenda Gambol @brendagambol.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'd like to share an article my colleagues and I just published in IMR. It's on Asian Indian H1Bs --- hope gives us more insight on immigrant lives... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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